CARED (COVID-19 Associated Response for Elderly and Deprived) Project
COVID-19 pandemic time has impacted various individuals, families’ organisations and countries in different ways through 2020-21. India has been one of the high impacted countries where poverty as well as limited healthcare infrastructure has had a big negative impact.
Maple Leaf Hospital Kangra is a charitable institution that has worked on charity funds for decades since its inception in 1907. In the recent times it has been running partially on institutional support and partly on differential fee payments received from select patients from better socio-economic status sections of the society. With the COVID-19 disruptions stretching long, more and more patients have struggled to take the needful medical care support, especially the elderly. The hospital and its staff has remained open to provide services to general public, and sustained itself even when many of the patients did not have an ability to pay for essential medicines.
A lot of its patients are now elderly connecting from decades in the past when there were not many hospitals in the area, continuing their expectations of caring, comfort or support from this institution. Over the past few months we have decided to setup a Geriatrics and Elder Care facility and outreach services in the area for them being the most vulnerable and hardest hit in this pandemic. We took this decision on the basis of our historical perspectives on history when this hospital was founded for the most vulnerable. The response of our founders who setup this hospital in response to most vulnerable and hardest hit women’s in 1905 to carry on the legacy.
Though local Red Cross Society and EduCARE India NGO has come to support Maple Leaf Hospital in the emergency times, it has to find some alternative sources of support too. Due to the local socio-economic conditions, there is a limited mobilisation of support is sought in the local area. Further some, Maple Leaf Hospital will need a good amount of support internationally as was the case few decades back.
All organising committee members will invest 1% of the required project cost for current operations deficit and for the setting up of a Centre for Geriatrics and Eldercare, accounting to total 10% of the cost. The doctors and staff decided to keep /cut their volunteer honorariums to half, creating another about 10% funds.
EduCARE India NGO have committed 10% of the project cost through 2020-21. Another 10% will be raised by it through project implementation, social enterprise activities of medical tourism activities of Institute for Public Health, Medical Outreach and Research in the next couple of years.
As due to struggling economy, CSR partners are finding hard to support us in these times, we are looking out for raising 10% of the total funds through CSR in India.
Thus, we plan to raise 50% of the estimated funds amounting to about INR 17,500,000 locally. Equal amount of another 50% component of funds will be raised internationally keeping up with the history of the Maple Leaf Hospital being a collective effort of some global volunteers at site, and of volunteer-contributions of many an international volunteer-contributors / social investors from distant lands across the world including Canada, US, UK, Ireland, Germany, some other EU countries, and oceanic like Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Having constituted an expert committee for the same, it was decided that instead of only institutional donations, we will also seek project / newsletter memberships treating new members as social investors who will not only have the ability to contribute within the range of $50 to $100 but may also enrich this project with their ideas and in person work through volunteer travel or online work.
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