Surgery has become an essential service in comprehensive healthcare delivery systems throughout the world, and basic surgical services are important public health interventions in increasing the quality of life for the target population. While emphasis has been placed in providing preventive and curative medical care in rural areas of India, secondary-level surgical care continues to be deficient. Due to a paucity of surgeons, surgical facilities, and instruments, basic injuries, ligations, and excisions are often unable to be managed properly by existing healthcare institutions. The distance to the nearest secondary surgical unit from a rural area is often too far to reach, and places patients in unnecessarily life-threatening situations.
To overcome the present challenges and to help the rural communities in and around Nilakkottai village, which is 45 to 55 kms away from hospitals with operation theatre, we are planning to set up an operation theatre in the existing hospital. This will benefit communities from 40 villages around Nilakottai.
Additional Contribution (not matched by The Rotary Foundation)
$15,000
Total
$31,335
Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.
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History Log Entries
26-Oct-18
by Gopalakrishnan palanisamy
System Entry: Creation of project page.
27-Oct-18
by Antonio Carlos Cardoso
System Entry: Pledge of $1 by Anotnio Carlos of the Rotary Club of Campo Mourão, District 4630.
11-Nov-18
by Antonio Carlos Cardoso
System Entry: Pledge of $6,000 DDF by Emi Tokonami Mori of the Rotary Club of São Paulo Liberdade, District 4430.
12-Nov-18
by Mauro Carvalho Duarte Junior
System Entry: Pledge of $1 by Mauro Duarte of the Rotary Club of Maringá-Colombo, District 4630.
16-Nov-20
by Gopalakrishnan palanisamy
System Entry: Pledge of $15,000 by P. Gopalakrishnan of the Rotary Club of Karur Texcity, District 3000.
18-Mar-21
by Colleen MacKinnon
System Entry: Pledge of $1,250 by Colleen MacKinnon of the Rotary Club of Escondido, District 5340.
2-Sep-21
System Entry
System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.