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.
For Cheque Donations:
Cheque/DD to be made in favour of ‘Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Care Trust’
For Online Donations:
Account Name : Lakshmi Pain and Palliative Care Trust.
Bank Name : HDFC
A/C No : 00041450000610
Type of A/C : Savings A/C
IFSC Code : HDFC0000004
Bank Address : 759, ITC Centre, Anna Salai, Opp. T.V.S, Chennai- 600 002
Branch : ITC Centre, Chennai
While donating online, please do drop us an e-mail (lakshmipaincare@gmail.com), giving the details of the transfer, along with your name, address and telephone number – documenting and receipting aside, we would like to send you a thank you note.
NOTE: Donations are exempt from income tax u/s 80G.
Click here to download the donation form or get in touch with us at: lakshmipaincare@gmail.com