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ROTARY CLUB OF COIMBATORE COTTON CITY (Club id:80414)
Proposal for Project-Little Miracles-An Initiative to Save The New Borns
Rotary Club of Coimbatore Cotton City in Collaboration with Sri Ramakrishna Hospital, Avarampalayam, Coimbatore propose to provide financial aid to pre-term new-borns who require specialized medical care due to premature birth, low birth weight, congenital defects, infections, or following surgeries and other complications.
NICU care is costly and also stressful for the families and caregivers of these vulnerable infants.
Prematurity accounts for 10% of all births; and in India, about a third of the neo-natal deaths are caused by prematurity. Rotary club of Coimbatore Cotton City envisions to save these preterm babies in the NICU by associating with Sri Ramakrishna Hospital Coimbatore. The project would be supported by Dr. Siddharth Buddhavarapu, MBBS. MD. FNPM., HOD-Department of Neo-Natology, Sri Ramakrishna Hospital, Coimbatore.
The NICU at Sri Ramakrishna Hospital is a referral centre for sick newborns. It is a 22-bed tertiary level state-of-art facility and cares for hundreds of pre-term infants, some as young as 23-24 weeks of gestation and 600 grams at birth.
However, caring for babies in NICU is expensive and is out-of-bounds for many low-income socio-economic families.
NICU babies, especially extremely pre-term neonates require 2-3 months of stay and expenses run into several thousands of dollars.
THERE IS NO INSURANCE SUPPORT OR PRE-NATAL PREMIUMS BY ANY INSURANCE COMPANY FOR THESE YOUNG PARENTS. THEY LOOSE THEIR SAVINGS AND THEIR NEW BORN DUE TO LOW INCOME AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Many families decide to discontinue care for this precise reason and hence a significant number of babies die or receive suboptimal care in smaller NICUs
If these babies are provided financial aid the hospital would be able to retain and support a greater number of patients and provide them with even better care than is being offered currently and save these little ones and build a healthier community.
WE PROPOSE to -
• DIRECTLY SPONSOR NEEDY PATIENTS AT LEVEL 2 OF NICU CARE, where the patients have crossed the critical phase but still are at a stage if withdrawn from the NICU care may not survive by direct fund transfer to the hospital for the purpose of bill payment.
• Offer NICU parents peer support and referrals to community resources through volunteers, patient help groups, NGOs, etc.
• A FOLLOW UP REVIEW PROGRAMME to review the development status of the selected babies shall be adhered to in consultation with the department of Neonatology Sri Ramakrishna hospital Coimbatore for period of 2 years.
THE FINANCIAL PROPOSAL FOR THE PROJECT
The total cost for the project would be US$30,000/- (United States Dollar Thirty Thousand Only).
A sum of US$600/-(United States Dollar Six Hundred Only) shall be given to each child if the billing amount exceeds US$3,600/- (United States Dollar Three Thousand Six Hundred Only).
WE REQUIRE $6000 USD AS CASH CONTRIBUTION FROM AN INTERNATIONAL CLUB
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LIVES WE CAN SAVE ARE - 50 PRE-TERM BABIES.
Thank you for your interest in this project and expecting a long-lasting relationship with the Rotary Club of Coimbatore Cotton City (Rotary CLUB-ID 80414 DIST 3201).
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