Thirumalai Charity Trust
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Mission Statement
To build sustainable rural communities and improve their quality of life by: • Staying relevant to the changing needs and environment and responding to them with the meaningful programmes and services • Continuing to focus on creating replicable and scalable models in each of our service programmes in health, education and development • Founding, promoting and supporting charitable, academic, training, research institutions of excellence • Setting the standards in each of our services and becoming the natural choice for any seeker of such services. • Providing affordable high-quality healthcare to all sections of the society with care & compassion
About This Cause
Thirumalai Charity Trust (TCT) was started in 1970 on the belief that ‘Social responsibility of Business is not optional, but obligatory’. Over the years, TCT has dedicated itself to serving the surrounding rural communities in Ranipet & Vellore districts of Tamilnadu. Women Empowerment and Community Health have been the core areas of TCT’s interventions. Today, over 35,000 families are direct beneficiaries of the work that the organization carries out at the grassroots- supported by over 500 women Family Care Volunteers (FCVs). The focus of TCT in the early years of its community health programme was to create awareness among the rural populace on all aspects of health & wellness targeted at specific segments viz. 1. The elderly & Vulnerable 2. Pre-natal & post-natal women, and infants 3. Primary School Children 4. Adolescents 5. Persons with Disabilities and 6. Alcoholics TCT’s community health programmes have been able to bring about a significant change in the mindset of the rural population towards preventive health. A well-trained team of over 45 multi-purpose assistants (MPAs) work tirelessly in 315 villages as full-time employees of the trust to constantly understand the evolving health needs of the community and help design initiatives that will effectively address those needs. In 2010, The Thirumalai Mission Hospital (TMH) was set up in Ranipet as a 20-bedded facility to go beyond education and provide affordable medical intervention, where required. A unique model of care was developed- where the awareness & monitoring done at the field was seamlessly integrated with medical intervention provided at the hospital. As an example, TCT’s flagship community programme, started in 2015, has been the prevention, early detection, control, intervention & monitoring of non-communicable diseases in the community. (NCD programme). Today, most villages in our service area are aware of Diabetes and hypertension as diseases that are silent killers. Over 15,000 people are screened each year , of which about 2000 patients with chronic diabetes & hypertension are monitored monthly at their homes by MPAs. General physicians & diabetologists intervene and adjust medications for these patients through camps that are organized thrice a week. Physiotherapy & nutrition advice are integral components of these camps that are conducted either physically at the base hospital or at remote centers in villages through telemedicine. This integrated model proved very effective during the covid waves, where TCT did yeoman service in mitigating the impact of the pandemic in our community areas. At the grassroots, the MPAs were able to effectively deliver relevant communication on prevention from time to time. They also strived to ensure that the elderly and vulnerably were adequately cocooned and protected. For those affected by Covid and did not require hospitalization, TCT facilitated home isolation with oxygen availability and telemedicine support. The hospital was equipped with medical resources and infrastructure to manage the devastating second wave, when an entire wing of over 40 beds was repurposed for covid care. Now, to commemorate over 50 years of service to the rural community, TCT is embarking on an ambitious expansion project to augment the existing 50-bedded hospital infrastructure and services in Ranipet. The surrounding communities have repeatedly expressed the need for critical and advanced interventions, both surgical and non-surgical, in secondary care that is more accessible and affordable. [Today, it entails a 45-minute travel to the nearest town-Vellore through inconvenient and, often, uneconomical multi-modal transportation]. The hospital is embarking on the next phase of community health service by establishing Centres of Excellence in the following areas: 1. Diabetes & heart disease 2. Orthopaedics & Limb reconstruction 3. Renal care. 4. Women malignancies and 5. Surgical specialties. The hospital conducts over 100 single-speciality (diabetes, pediatrics, Gynaecology etc.) and multi-speciality camps every year towards early detection of various medical conditions and providing timely interventions at the hospital. With the expansion, TMH will intensify the camp efforts for identifying needy patients that can be served by the centres of excellence. Like over the past 50 years, TCT will continue to involve all community-health stakeholders to improve the quality of health and development of the rural underserved, and develop sustainable institutions to benefit more people, more effectively and in more ways. Our ability to stay relevant and provide meaningful service to the rural communities in Ranipet has always hinged on the unconditional support from various well-wishers and donors. We look forward to their continued patronage in the next phase of our journey –as we scale up the accessibility of affordable, high quality healthcare to the rural underserved- through this project