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Every year in the Southern Districts of Tamil Nadu there are 20,000 fresh cases of cancer (8,00,000 in India every year). At any one time there are 60,000 on-going cases (25,00,000 cases in India) making it a total of 80,000 patients needing treatment and follow up in these Southern Districts.
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- The current capacity is adequate to cater for only half this number
(All figures from National Cancer Registry)
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The alarming fact is that in India 100 new patients are diagnosed with cancer and roughly 50 die every hour.
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The treatment for cancer is too expensive. The cost proves more detrimental to their treatment and recovery than the insidious cancer cell. The cost of cancer is unexpected and can cripple the best of families. But where to get the treatment?
Chances of recovery are excellent, if one reports for treatment early after cancer has arisen. What they need is the early diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Most cancer patients can return to their normal lives, even during treatment. The trauma of cancer can be devastating for the patient and the family. They need informed and compassionate medical, nursing and emotional care.
Worldwide there have been great successes and improved methodologies and technology for treatment but the victims of cancer of Tamil Nadu are a long way off from taking advantage of this. Your support can make this happen.
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Vadamalayan Cancer Hospital
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A feasibility study was conducted by Mumbai based HOSPIC Consultants. HOSPIC interacted with a wide range of specialists at the state and national level, medical practitioners in Madurai and surrounding districts. HOSPIC's report suggested:
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"There is a tremendous need for a comprehensive Oncology centre with state-of-the-art facilities and experienced & skilled consultants in this field, having sub centers at the surrounding district headquarters. More so, if the services are made affordable for althea socio-economic strata of the society"
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Current Facilities in Madurai
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The study found out that currently Madurai has the capacity of treating about half the cases occurring and that too not in the full range of treatment. There is waiting time in one case and a costly treatment in another. Many patients have to travel long distances, undergo numerous inconveniences and yet not get satisfactory treatment.
The study has recommended a project size of 100 beds at Madurai which is in the center of the 13 Southern districts and is fast emerging as the destination for quality healthcare, at affordable costs. Patients from other parts of India and abroad visit the hospitals here for treatment
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Proposal
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Vadamalayan Memorial Trust proposes to set up a 100 bedded, State of the Art. Vadamalayan Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at Madurai. It will provide
"Affordable and Accessible Diagnostic, State-of-the-Art Therapeutic and Palliative Care Service for all cancer victims in Tamil Nadu.
It proposes to provide free treatment to all from poorer sections of society which is about 20 % of all incidences. Now no one will then suffer without timely and effective treatment."
VADAMALAYAN Cancer Hospital will offer the latest available equipment and advanced technology together with the services of consultants renowned for their expertise in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques to meet the growing needs of the hapless cancer victims of Tamil Nadu.
It will have facilities for the following and more:
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- Diagnostic Services and Other Procedures
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Space Requirement
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Land is being provided by Vadamalayan Memorial Trust within the existing Vadamalayan Hospital.
The total space required for a 100-bedded hospital with all facilities is as follows:
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- For hospital complex 97,000 sq ft
- For Residential Complex 20,000 sq ft.
TOTAL 1 17,000 sq ft.
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Manpower
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Medical consultants for all oncology specialties and sub-specialties have been worked out in detail and the total staff will be about 400 personnel of various categories & skills.
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Project Cost (Rs. /Lakhs)
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- Medical Equipment 6102.15
- Hospital Furniture & Sundry Assets 610.00
- Preliminary Expenses 25.00
- Preoperative Expenses 600.00
- Margin Money for Working Capital 55.63
TOTAL 1 10,111.14 (USD 22.8 Million).
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Means of Finance
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This hospital will be unique in its operation. The Trustees have decided that all those persons who belong to the Below Poverty Line category and have unfortunately become victims of cancer will be treated free at this hospital.
This puts an additional burden, one the trustees will accommodate. It is for this reason that we solicit support from those who care for our community.
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- Trustees Contribution 30% Rs 3033.34 Lakhs
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(including upgrading of existing facilities)
The trustees) are upgrading the facilities and make these available to Vadamalayan Cancer Hospital and Research Center for their use to offset some of the expenses. The laboratory and many other facilities are being strengthened and upgraded and their use will be a big contribution.
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- Donations/Contributions 40% Rs 4044.46 Lakhs*
- Loans/Venture Philanthropists 30% Rs 3033.34 Lakhs
*This is basically required for purchase of medical equipments
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Technical Advisory Committee
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- Professor M. KRISHNAN NAIR MD, FRCR (London)
Founder Director Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum
Advisor to Director General WHO, Geneva
- Dr GK Rath,
Chief, Rotary Cancer Hospital,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
- Professor (Dr) NR Datta,
Senior Consultant Radiation Oncology,
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute
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Sanctions
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The following sanctions are already in place/in the process:
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- 80 G-For 50 % tax exemption on donations
- 35 AC- For 100% tax exemption is in pipe line
- Atomic Energy Regulation Board-Sanction for installing a LINAC obtained
- FCRA-Vadamalayan Memorial Trust has FCRA sanction No 11194451381
- Municipal Corporation Architect Construction-In pipe line
- Bankers: State Bank of India, Madurai
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Funding Needs
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Construction (each floor)-Rs 200 Lakhs (USD 4, 40,000).
The building will have 7 floors. Radiotherapy services are still the mainstay of treatment given the large proportion of advanced epithelial cancers in India. Given the long waiting lists for treatment and the distance that patients have to travel to reach treatment facilities, complete radiation equipments will be needed for optimal strategies. Radiation can cure or control cancer
About fifty to sixty percent of patients with cancer will require radiation at sometime or other during the course of their disease. The important and inescapable equipment is as follows:
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New Acquisitions Rs/Lakhs USD
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- PET Scanner system 1504.00 3,350,000
- Nuclear Medicine 449.50 1,000,000
- Operation Theaters 2 408.20 900,000
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Future Additions
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- Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
- Robot for Surgical Procedures
- Laser for Surgical Purposes
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Our Concurrent Plans
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Hope Express. We propose to launch a mobile van on the lines of 'Hope Express' of Indian Cancer Society. It will be a cancer awareness creation, cancer detection facility for breast, cervical and oral cancer. This will be particularly targeted at women who do not move out of the rural environments.
Hospice. Alongside the cancer hospital Vadamalayan proposes to set up a pain clinic cum hospice to cater for the needs of the terminally ill.
Expansion. There is a scope of adding another 50 Beds in the adjoining plot as and when required.
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Recognition Possibilities
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- Floor/ ward can be named after donor.
- Branding on equipment supported.
- Visibility on site, website and other communications.
- Due acknowledgement on all occasions.
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Your Support
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We are aware that you would wish to alleviate pain particularly that of persons afflicted by cancer and thus this Inquiry. We seek your support. Our endeavour is to jump-start cancer treatment in India from one that is promising tone that makes a real difference.
Your generous support will help set up this venture and start the process to improve the care we give each cancer patient and advance medicine and human health around Tamil Nadu and India.
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Conclusion
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With the establishment of Vadamalayan Cancer Hospital it will:
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- Create a State-of the Art Cancer treatment facility within easy reach and give hope to thousands of victims who would have gone with inadequate or NO treatment.
- Reach out to the community for early diagnosis.
- Treat more than 2000 patients each year free of cost-something never envisaged earlier.
- Provide subsidized treatment to many more middle class patients
- Make drugs available at the most competitive rates through Vadamalayan pharmacies.
We believe in the dictum, "It is never too late to start and never too early to begin".
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