EKAM – ONENESS- Annual Report 2009-2010

COMMUNITY PEDIATRIC HEALTH PROJECT

A Public-Private Partnership model

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,

an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to

turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia

Master Vaibhav Krishna celebrated his first birthday on 25th November. It was difficult

to imagine that Master Vaibhav Krishna would when he was admitted to the Intensive

Care Unit. He has had to go through a very traumatic ordeal in his new born period. He

was hospitalized and had to be on ventilator support for almost 15 days. Vaibhav

survived this ordeal.

He recovered fully and was discharged to get back home. He has donated a cheque to

Ekam to support another child who cannot afford treatment in ICU.

Parents were referred to us by the pediatrician Dr.Subramanyam who took care of Master

Vaibhav in the newborn period.

A great moment for Ekam! We wish him a long, healthy and happy life!

When master Mukesh was admitted to the hospital, his father could not afford the

medical expenses as he did not have a job at that time.

Mukesh’s Father is now not just employed and earning himself but is also raising funds

to support other children who cannot afford treatment in ICU.

It is a great feeling of oneness!

Ekam is basically working for the healthcare of underprevileged children in Chennai,

Thiruvallur,Kancheepuram,Virudhunagar & Madurai districts in TamilNadu, India by

working with Orphanages,Slums, ICDS centres & Corporation, Government &

Government aided schools and Government hospitals through EKAM -ONENESS

community pediatric health project. We have a network of 51 hospitals and 150

pediatricians volunteering for the project in chennai

Ekam aims to bring comprehensive health care to the underprivileged children in

Tamilnadu.

Ekam was formally inaugurated on Doctor’s day July 1st 2007as a Community Pediatric

Project of CIOSA( Confederation of Indian Organisations for service and Advocacy)

which is the CSR initiative of Mafoi Foundation. and supported by Pediatricians &

Pediatric Specialists who are willing to give their voluntary services to provide holistic

health care to the poor and needy children.

This programme is supported by Pediatricians, Nutritionists, Social Workers and Yoga

Instructors, who work with communities to ensure that the children have increased access

to health care services.

On 14 th Nov, 2008, the Honorable Minister for Health & Family Welfare of Govt. of

Tamil Nadu inaugurated the Public Private Partnership in ICH.

Ekam’s has been registered as a separate organization in August, 2009 as Ekam

foundation .

Children below 19yrs are taken care of .

We bring in support for the hospitalization (secondary & tertiary care) of the children

admitted in pvt. hospitals and renting ventilators , lab support & medicines for the

children of Government Hospitals.

Ekam was made into a Public- Private Partnership model with the vision of Right to

health for Every Child and with the mission is to provide every child, regardless of

his/her financial means, a high quality, comprehensive, continuous health care ,delivered

in a respectful, caring and family centred environment – a Happy & Healthy Home .

Ekam Services

Training Capacity building among

the health care staff

Screening Preventive & Primary

care

Hospital Care

Secondary & Tertiary

care

Ekam’s aim is to complement the Government and not to replace it.

Ultimately no child should be refused of health care because of financial constraints,

no parent should feel guilty of not able to give adequate health care & no doctor or

hospital should feel guilty of refusing patients because of financial constraints.

Ekam services:

Chennai Training:

Networked with Asha Nivas for conducting training programmes for the child

parliaments on First Aid, Disaster Management & Fire fighting conducted by St.John’s

ambulance, RedCross & Fire service personelle in September 2009.

Formed 51 health clubs with Junior Redcross children in corporation schools & Disha

scholars where IEC on Child health care, Adolescent health care, Nutrition & Sanitation

were conducted by the doctors from ICH and Royapettah,

Yoga for children through Satyananda Yoga centre has been started in 5 corporation

schools .

Given prophylactic Iron supplementation for 17,000 children aged between 10 and 17

( 5th class to 12 th class) in 51 corporation schools through the Corporation's support

and given 1 lakh Iron tablets supported by ICH, Chennai

Screening:

Chennai Camp Details April 2009-

Mar 2010

No of Camps

No of children screened

Total Number of Camp

Referrals: OP + IP

Total number of camp referrals Treated as OP &

IP in the Hospital:

ICDS 216 13765 507 354

Orphanages 7 470 12 12

Schools 107 7129 1648 326

Community 288 6099 52 28

Total 618 27463 2219 720

Overall 2009- 2010

ICDS Community School Orphanage Total

Total Number of Referrals: 507 52 1648 12 2219

Referral as OP 481 48 1642 12 2183

Referral as IP 26 4 6 0 36

Total number of children Treated as OP & IP in the Hospital:

354 28 326 12 720

Treated as OP in the Hospital: 338 24 326 12 700

Treated as IP in the Hospital: 16 4 0 0 20

Hospital care :

ICH

Inaugurated the day care ward, isolation ward, play therapy room and lab in the hemato

oncology department in ICH.

Staff salary support of 2000/- per month to 2 theatre boys for 6 months(Rs.24,000/-

totally) supported by Ekam.

Lab and Drugs support to haemato Oncology ward, NICU ( 80,000 to 1 lakh per month)

by Ekam

Renting Ventilators- Rs.60,000 to 80,000 per month.

Apr 2009 - Mar 10-Overall Treated IP

No of Children

Camps 20

ICH 118

Direct referrals 99

Total 237

KKT 41

Mortality 77

Direct referrals

SHG 20

Hosp. referrals 34

Other Dst.Referrals 45

Total 99

Virudhunagar & Madurai

ICDS training

1.Completed training 600 anganwadi workers of the 6 blocks on eye screening, early

identifying hearing defects and developmental delays. Follow up of training needs to

be strengthened.

2. Telemedicine camp for the Disha scholars in 6 blocks done by Meenakshi Mission

hospital, Madurai

Screening

Camps Total Number of children screened

Total Number of Normal children

Total number of children Treated as OP in the camp

Total Number of Referrals

Details of Referrals

School children screening by MMHRC

7 1487 52 47Ped 5 Eye

ICDS 8 1001 607 394 50

NCLP screening

10 750 6 3Ped;3Eye

Total 25 3238 108

Hospital care

Madurai GH:

Lab and drug support support to the Pediatric ward ( 20,000 to 30,000 per month) by

Ekam

Renting Ventilators

Virudhunagar and Madurai details

No of children Treated as Out patients in MMHRC

No of children Treated as Op at AHAP

Total No of children Treated as Op(MMHRC + AHAP)

No of children Treated as In patients in MMHRC

No of children Treated as In patients in Chennai

Total No of children Treated as In patients (Madurai + Chennai )

Up to 2009 Apl - Dec 136 62 198 44 15 59

January 8 9 17 2 2 4

February 11 24 35 2 8 10

March 20 7 27 2 16 18

Total 175 102 277 50 41 91

Overall IP

District 2009-10

Chennai 237

Mdr & Vnr 50

Total 287

Previous 07-09 150

Overall total (2007-10) 437

Kancheepuram

1. Trained Village Health Nurses and Sector Health nurses from 6 blocks on

neonatal care, early identifying referrals, visual defects, hearing defects and

follow up of high risk newborn with Chengalpet doctors & DDHS support.

2. Renting Ventilators- Rs.30,000 every month

3. Staff support- One data entry person and Project coordinator- Rs.4,500 each per

month

4.NRHM support-

Mrs.Girija Vaidyanathan, Mission director of NRHM sanctioned 5 lakhs , for

Kancheepuram, for the basic newborn care and neonatal resuscitation training for the

SHG,VHN, SHN, Staff nurses and Medical officers of the PHCs and to start a neonatal

corner in PHCs

This will be done as public-private partnership model and Role of Ekam is to support the

salary of a coordinators, follow up of training, follow up of referrals, coordinating data

entry at the PHCs and at the headquarters hospital, coordinate with other NGOs like

Hand in Hand , Dhan foundation and AID India.

Thiruvallur

1. Started child guidance clinic once a month by Dr.Anuradha and her team

2. Networked with SPASTN for further followup & referrals

3. Help to Live appointed a coordinator to take care of referrals and follow up.

Events:

Ekam could raise 2.1 lakhs in Battle of Buffet, 35,000 in Chennai Marathon and5.5 lakhs

in Medimelody events at Hyderabad

Awards:

PPP award at ICH

Friends of MMC and GGH award

Overall Quantitative Results of Our Programs So Far:

Overall statistics from Feb2007- Mar 2010 ( all districts Chennai, Madurai and

Virudunagar)

Overall 68765 (Chennai- 65,527; Vdnr amd Mdr-3238) children were screened.

172(165 - chennai; 7- Vdnr amd Mdr ) schools and 27610 (26123- chennai; 1487-

Vdnr and Mdr) school children have been screened till now.

359 ( 351- chennai;8- Vdnr amd Mdr) ICDS centres & 225465 ( 24464 -

chennai;1001- Vdnr amd Mdr) ICDS children have been screened till now.

72 orphanages & 4966 children were screened

361 (351- chennai; 10- Vdnr amd Mdr) Community centres & 10724 ( 9974-

chennai; 750- Vdnr amd Mdr) children were screened

Inpatients- Overall

375 children got secondary & tertiary care.

Overall Mortality- 85

KKT referrals- 41 ( mortality- 6 )

ICH: Chennai-

Institute of Child Health- Support of rented ventilators

Out of 118 children supported,

53 children were discharged well.

65 died .

Previous Years Statistics:

Feb 2007- Mar 08 No of

Camps

No of children

screened

No of children

Treated as In

patients

ICDS Nil Nil Nil

Orphanages 48 3500 65

Schools 11 3954 0

Community 33 2394 1

Total 92 9848 66

Mortality 6

Apr 2008- Mar 09

No of Camps

No of children

screened

No of children

Referred

No of children

Treated as In

patient

ICDS-135 10699 462 6

Orphanages-17 996 50 5

Schools-47 15040 1955 2

Community-30 1481 254 9

Total-229 28216 2721 22

Mortality 2

Launch of Paripoorna Bala Suraksha

Paripoorna: Project Model

Ekam operates in a three tier model as given below:

Tier 1- Government Health Insurance schemes –

1.Chief Minister Kalaignar’s Insurance Scheme for Life Saving Treatments

(Referred to as ‘Kalaignar Insurance scheme’ in this document)

2.Niramaya scheme - a Health Insurance Scheme for the welfare of persons

with Autism,Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities

3. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

Tier 2- The proposed Comprehensive Paediatric Health Insurance Scheme

Tier 3-Ekam health coverage: Support by Ekam foundation for requests not

covered or exceeding expenses coverage in Tier 1 and Tier2

Enrollment of 1700 childrn done

Total Money raised by both Disha and Ekam : Rs.703222

Medical Screening camps planned.. Till now total children screened- 250

Stall put up at Malladi Drugs & Pharmaceuticals ltd.- Money raised-

Rs.27,000/- from the employees. HCL, Manhattan in Bangalore

Partners

Implementing- Disha foundation, Aid India, Goonj, 17 pvt. hospitals in Chennai for

Paripoorna,Paripoorna , Child Help line, Medall, Life care , Care for life, Hand in hand,

Dhan foundation, Isha outreach and Isha foundation., MILC centre, Radhatri Netralaya,

Netratech ; Help to Live organization; Chennai Social Service., Sai Gomuktheswar

foundation

Fund raising- Disha foundation, WWS, Shiridi Sai Trust, Chain therapy, Tech Process

Solutions Pvt. Limited for ECS- Electronic Clearnce Service.

Future Projects- IIT, Volunteer for health, NRHM

Ekam Financials- Apr09- March10

Mafoi foundation supported Ekam Rs.8.5 lakhs for clearing of all the outstanding and

getting time to raise funds.

Payments

done from Apr

09-Mar-10 Amount Supported by

Ekam 1532160

Donations to Ekam

(payments done upto

March)

Direct hospital

payments

946944

WWS, Disha, Shiridi

Sai, Anusha, Shanthi

ICH

infrastucture 3585600

corporates, NGOs ,

Individuals

Ekam to

Mafoi

( outstanding) 318000

Battle of buffet,

Chennai Marathon

ICH- Staff

salaries 75350

Focus Infotech, Help

to live

Mafoi -

salaries 710,000 Mafoi

Ekam

payments

through Mafoi 110000

Donations to Mafoi

for Ekam( March

pending payments

done in May)

Ekam

544094

Donations to

Ekam(March

pending payments

done in April &

May)

Total

payments 7822148

Paripoorna

Scheme

Amount

raised from

donors Supported by

Premium for

3182 children 703222

Donors ( yet to Pay

in June)

Sincere Thanks

Health Secretary, Mr.Subburaj,NRHM Mission Director, Mrs.GirijaVaidyanathan,

Dr.Sharada Suresh, ICH director and all the Pediatricians and Staff,Dr.Sathya, DDHS

Kancheepuram Dr.Vanaja, Dr.Rajasekaran, Collectors of Madurai and Vdngr, DDHS of

Madurai and Viridhunagar, CEO, Dr.Amutha Rajeshwari, and all the Pediatricians of

Madurai Rajajee hospital.ICDS, DPO, NCLP

Dr.Nevil, Dr.MuthuKumar, Dr, Balakrishnan, Dr.Harapriya, Dr.NKapadia, Dr.Ranjit,

Dr.Moosa, Dr.Robert Coelo, Dr.Shivakumar, Ms.Nishat

Sewa USA, Neelima, Mr.Venkat, Mr.Gopal

Dr.Prakash of Star health, Dr.Guru,

All the trustees of Ekam.

Mafoi

CIOSA

DYM

All the hospitals- KKCTH, SRM, Malar, MIOT, Apollo, Soorya, St,Isabel Hospital,

MMHRC, GKF, Aravind Eye hospital

Corporates like Athena Health, HCL, HP, Malladi, Manhattan, Ford.

All the individual donors, ,WWS, parveen travels, Mr.Zakir of Zigma,

Mr.RajuVenkatRaman of Medall, Disha foundation, Shiridi Sai trust, Anusha, Shanthi

from Chain Tharapy, Ushasridhar of Interface, Mr.Purushottaman of Care for life,

Mr.Sathya Life care drugs, Shankar Mahadevan of Udavum Ullangal.All the doctors and

Orchestra who raised funds for Ekam through Medimelody

Individuals like Dr.Sharada, Mr.Venkataramana, Mrs.Prameela, Anusha, Shreya of

Malladi, Anita, Vidya, Ram, Rama and Priya of Samanvaya, Dr.Santhosh,

Dr.UmaShankar, Ms.RitaJames of AHAP, Dr.Kadiravan, Mr.Varadarajan,

Mr.RaviPalaparthy, Mr.Kannan Krishnan, Mr.DJ, Mr.Mahadevan of Hot breads,

Ms.Aarthi of Governance Counts, Mr.Arjun, Aarthi and Kalpana from; Kamlesh Jain,

Ashok Jain, Dinesh Jain, Mr.Kanagaraj, Mr. Shiva, Mr. Kasthuri Rangan, Mr.Gopal,

Raji from USA, Mrs.UmaMaheshwari, Mr.Hari Prasad, Ms.Pushpa , Ms.Christina.

Sathish Bonthu and team from Chennai Social service, Murali., NGOs like Nanban,

Asha Nivas

We would like to thank Organizations & individuals unconditionally supported the

ICH Project – Chennai

Zigma donated 2 ventilators to the PICU department in ICH.

Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd. has donated a defibrillator ( life saving

equipment ) costing Rs.1.75 lakhs to ICH.

Staff support to Hemato Oncology ward through Focus Infotech. They appointed a Social

worker Mr.Thavasu (salary-5000/- per month) and a labtechnician Ms.RoseMary (salary-

6000/- per month). Offered to support 23,000/- per month for staff support.

Chennai Social service is doing cleaning of water tanks and planned to do mass cleaning

of ICH

Satyananda Yoga Centre is planning to start a yoga centre at ICH.

State bank of India Officers Association donated Rs. 75,000 and Udavum Ullangal got

support of Rs.75,000 for reagents for the blood cell counter

Help to live organisation appointed neonatal nurse and paying salary- 4000 per month.

Chengalpattu GH:

Aid India donated Rs. 4 lakhs worth equipments like infusion pumps. Pulsoxymeters,

warmers and phototherapy units to the neonatal ward.

Maybe our vision is too ambitious but…..

there are infinite imaginative possibilities when we allow the freedom to go beyond our perceived

limits. If we can dream it, we can build it. Life, through unconditional love, is a wondrous adventure that excites the very core of our being and lights our path with delight.

The start of something new brings the hope of something great,

Anything is possible with Oneness!

Support Ekam :

We need support for

1.Identifying organisations / corporates who can support secondary and tertiary health

care for children and link us up. The total budget is 3 lakhs per month.

2. Medicines for camps. The total budget coming to approximately Rs.6 lakhs a year.

3. Medicines and investigations for children admitted in Goverment Childrens hospital,

Egmore. The total budget is Rs.1.5 lakhs per month.

Our total budget is coming to Rs.5 to 7 lakhs every month.

You can help this project

Guardian Angel – Sponsor one kid through ECS

of 500/- every month.

campaigner – Spread the word & this message to

your friends & family

ambassador – Link us with an NGO / your

company’s CSR wing

advisor – Seek clarifications & provide your

valuable inputs to us

Here are the modes of donation:

ECS (Electronic Clearnce Service) mandate forms

Pl find the account details below.

Donations can be transferred onlineto the following account:

EKAM Foundation

ICICI bank,

Account number: 000905022614

Nungambakkam Branch

IFSC Code : ICIC0000009

Account type: Current account.

Donations in the form of Cheques or Demand Drafts can be sent in the name

of 'Ekam foundation' to the following address

Dr.SaiLakshmi,

Ekam foundation,

New No. 16; Old No. 19,

2nd floor,

Jayalakshmipuram 1st Street,

Nungambakkam,

Chennai- 34.

Please note that Ekam does not have 80G status currently.

If you are expecting 80G exemption we can arrange it for you through the Mafoi

Foundation.

Pl find the account details of the Mafoi foundation for 80G exemption below:

Cheque/DD to be made in the name of "The Ma Foi Foundation"

Bank Name Lakshmi Vilas Bank

Branch name Cathedral Road Branch

Account Number 0434357000000018

9 digit MICR number 600056004

Current/ savings account Current account

SWIFT Code/ Remittance Instructions LAVBINBB

IFSC / RTGS / NEFT CODE LAVB0000434

For US donations we have linked up with Sewa USA for transfer of funds and tax

exemption .

People in US can also contribute

via http://www.sewausa.org/contribute-sewa-usa (But send us a notification

via email)

Pl find the contact details below:

Mr.Venkat Santanaraman

Vice President

Sewa International USA

Ph:713-244-4992; .

Email: venkatinsewa@yahoo.com

Sewa International

P. O. Box 14622

Fremont, CA 94539