What You Can Do

Be a part of our team! Become a volunteer 

Can you spare two hours a day twice a week?

You may help in the following areas:

  • Counsel patients
  • Visit patients at home to give medicines and offer support
  • Spread awareness about palliative care and its availability.
  • Organise events
  • Administration

 

Be a donor

Donations are tax deductible u/s 80 G of the income tax act.

We need funds for:

  • Day-to-day functioning of the clinic
  • Purchase of medicines and equipments
  • Inpatient care, home visits and other essential requirements

 

You could donate on your birthday/anniversary and make it a memorable one

  • Rs. 1,00,000/- for home visits per month - includes medicines, salary for the team and vehicle maintenance
  • Rs. 50,000/- towards six months' staff salary
  • Rs. 25,000/- for one week of inpatient care
  • Rs. 10,000/- towards two weeks' requirement of morphine tablets
  • Rs. 5000/- for 10 days' requirement of other medicines
  • Rs. 4000/- for palliative procedures like removal of ascitic fluid to relieve breathlessness
  • Rs. 3000/- towards compression garment and exercise bands for lymphoedema care in a patient
  • Rs. 2000/- for conducting one awareness programme
  • Rs. 1000/- or Rs. 500/- Any amount of your choice

 

We appeal to philanthropic organisations to contribute towards a corpus fund for our Trust, which would help us extend our services to a much larger number of patients. We would like to expand our out-patient facilities, form a home care team, employ more staff for 24-hour inpatient care and develop satellite centres.

Our financial requirements: 

  • Home care services: Rs.8,50,000 per year
  • Outpatient facility: Rs. 18,00,000 per year
  • Inpatient care: Rs. 6,00,000 per year
  • Conduct weekly public awareness programs: Rs.1,50,000 per year
  • Develop a satellite centre at Tiruvannamalai GH as a public-private partnership in healthcare: Rs.15,00,000 for piloting the project.

 

Donations are exempt from income tax u/s 80G. Cheque/DD to be made in favour of ‘Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Care Trust’

Click here to download the donation form or get in touch with us at: lakshmipaincare@gmail.com

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