Founder: Dr M S Ramakrishnan
Year of establishment: 1978

2015-2017: The hospital provides affordable healthcare across the gamut of paediatric disciplines to children irrespective of their economic status. It is completing a major modernization and renovation of facilities.

CWCF’s support: CWCF supported the renovation of the much utilised auditorium, construction of the Well Baby Clinic-which provides preventive medical care and immunisation of children-and the expansion of the Emergency Unit, an urgent necessity with a growing number of children coming in for emergency care.

Founder: Dr Republica Sridhar
Year of establishment: 2005

2016-2017: RMD Pain and Palliative Care Trust is an ISO 9001:2008 certified organization Empanelled with TATA Institute of Social Science (TISS). This organization provides pain relief and palliative care to terminally ill patients and their families through medical care and counselling. The Trust provides out-patient and in-patient services and home visits, family support and counselling.

CWCF’s support: RMD integrates active management of Geriatric and Oncology cases with palliative care. It has set up a 50-bed hospital at Amarambedu, near Sriperumbudur, exclusively for Palliative, Geriatric and Oncology services focusing on holistic care and maintaining the dignity of patients. CWCF’s donation went towards the General ward and the Emergency/Casualty ward equipment of the hospital.

Founder: Ms Bhageerathy Ramamurthy
Year of establishment: 2003

2015-2016: The Anandam Medical Care Centre services people in 20 hamlets in and around Kallikuppam, Ambattur, with a mini polyclinic which has specialist doctors, reaching out to a population of over 2 lakh-mostly very poor casual labourers with negligible medical care.

CWCF’s support: CWCF supported the medical centre with a grant towards the construction and setting up of a pharmacy that supplies free medicines to the patients.

Founder: Dr KS Sanjivi
Year of establishment: 1958

2015-2016: VHS is a hospital with a 450-bed facility with the objective of making available health and medical care services to the poorest of the poor.

CWCF’s support: The Neurosurgery department in the Voluntary Health Services, headed by Dr. M.C. Vasudevan, performs on an average one to two surgeries every day. CWCF supported the hospital with a grant towards procuring a state-of-the-art operation table, replacing the 30-year-old manual table.