NE HEALTH BUREAU
CHENNAI, FEB 12
Under its ambitious plan of covering 1,000 kids over 10 years, the Madras Anchorage Round Table 100 (MART 100), a social club and the Kauvery Hospital in Chennai have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to perform 100 free surgeries for the children below the age of 15 years with congenital disorders here on Thursday.
The community service project of MART 100 christened as HEARTZ 100 was initiated by the social club in 2016 with the sole aim to help the underprivileged families to provide free surgeries for children with congenital heart disorders of children and infants. The MART 100 has so far helped about 300 heart surgeries for children and plans to achieve the target of covering 1,000 kids in 10 years.
Dr Aravindan Selvaraj, Executive Director and Chief Orthopaedic Surgeon, Kauvery Hospital and Kunal Chowdhari, Chairman – MART 100, exchanged the MoU in the presence of actor Parvathi Nair.
Speaking with the media, Dr Aravindan Selvaraj, and Dr T Senthil Kumar, Executive Director, Chief Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgeon, Kauvery Heart City said, “The burden related to heart diseases in India is enormous and the treatment of children suffering from heart ailments requires special equipment and expertise, which comes with a heavy price tag. Lack of awareness, funds and hospital facilities are the reasons for the majority of such children not surviving.
“With this initiative, we make sure socio-economic status is never a barrier when it comes to accessing quality healthcare. we have helped 100s of underprivileged children who so far were suffering from several heart diseases and our mission is to serve more in future by eliminating the lack of paediatric cardiac care accessibility to poor children with the support of Round Table India and Ladies Circle India,” they added.
Commenting on this initiative, Kunal Chowdhari, Chairman – MART 100 said, “This noble initiative was aimed to enhance the accessibility of cardio healthcare for children belongs to poor and downtrodden. The programme has been structured in such a way that it helps the children avail the treatment for all heart defects. Patients from other hospitals and states are also being benefited from this initiative by Madras Anchorage Round Table 100. When we started this initiative, we never thought we could help many such children within this small period.”
“Kauvery Hospital and our generous donors for the cause has made this possible through their various screening camps and providing the necessary support through their expert doctors and high-end medical care. We will continue to offer our support and help as many children as possible,” Chowdhari.
As a part of Heartz 100 Campaign, we are creating awareness towards this problem using social media. Our goal is to achieve 1,000 operations in 10 years and has been reaching out to prospective corporates and other philanthropists to help us achieve this goal, Kunal Chowdhari added.
