ROTARY CLUB OF MADRAS VADAPALANI
Rotary Club of Madras Vadapalani is a 41 member club which has been in existence since 1996, striving for the up-lift of the community around, has undertaken various Community Service projects in the past like Creating a Laboratory facility at a Corporation School in Virugambakkam valued around Rs.1.5 lacs, Creating a Class Room for a Municipal School in Porur valued around Rs.5 lacs, Constructing 21 Toilets in Kollamedu village near Thirukkazhikundram valued around Rs. 2.5 lacs Donated the first Dialysis Unit to Tanker Foundation valued around Rs. 7 Lacs in district 3230 , Donating Life Saving Equipment to Public Health Centre valued around Rs. 7 lacs,Renovation of corporation School at EzuChempon, nearVizhupuramvaluedaround 8 Lacs, etc
With this as background, Rotary Club of Maras Vadapalani is proposing a global grant project,
“Early Breast & Cervical Cancer Detection for Women”
for a value of INR 1.25 Cr (USD 167,333 at the rate of INR 75 per USD)
INTRODUCTION
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. In particular, Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor and one of the leading causes of death among women. In-crease in the number of persons suffering from this disease is noted throughout the world in the developed & developing countries. Primary breast cancer prevention, that is, prevention of development of this disease is still of limited character, and the preventive activities are focusing primarily on early detection and optimum treatment of the disease.
With the help of the organized programs aimed at systematic early breast cancer detection (screening programs), as well as timely and adequate treatment in a large number of devel-oped countries, in the past decade there has been a significant drop in the mortality caused by this disease. Breast cancer screening represents organization of mammography check-ups among healthy women of a specific age group, for the purpose of early detection of the disease, in the pre-clinical, stage.
OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION
According to the National Cancer Registry Programme of the India Council of Medical Re-search (ICMR), more than 1300 Indians die every day due to cancer. Among the main can-cers in India are Breast & Cervical cancer. One out of every two women die of breast cancer due to late diagnosis. One Indian woman dies of cervical cancer every 7 minutes Increase in mortality caused by breast & cervical cancer was noted in many countries in the 50’s and 60’s of the previous century.
In the 1970’s 1980’s and 1990’s, some countries of the Western Europe, USA, Canada, Asia and Australia has seen a halt in increase in death cases or the beginning of a downward trend. Just a few decades ago, many countries have initiated organized programs of early cancer detection & screening which have increased the survival rate to an extend of 90 per-cent.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM FOR EARLY CANCER DETECTION:
- Reduction of female mortality caused by breast & cervical cancer by 90% in the period of 5 years after the beginning of implementation of the Program.
- Early detection of breast & cervical cancer above 90% with the possibility to detect early which would reduce the costs of very expensive treatments of advanced/extended dis-ease.
- Improvement of the quality of life of patients suffering from cancer.
TARGET POPULATION:
Target population includes all healthy women in and around Chennai aged 20-80 years with the interval of examination in every two years belonging to underprivileged communities in Chennai and its surrounding districts.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM:
Rotary Club of Madras Vadapalani in partnership with Sri Ramachandra medical centre, a tertiary care centre on the basis of reports from the health care centres will conduct regular monitoring &evaluation .
Members of Rotary Club of Madras Vadapalani had detailed interaction with the Director of the Sri Ramachandra medical Centre & the specialists department doctors and understood the immediate need of the hospital which at present is treating a large number of the af-fected patients in this part of country and will provide the free screening, followed by free surgery
The proposal is to supply moving Vehicle with screening Mammogram to identify the cancer affected persons early.
On an average about 7800 women per year will benefit for 5 years totaling 39000 women at the rate of 30 women per day for 5 days a week costing 320 Indian rupees or a little more than 4 us dollars per woman.
The tentative budget for the above is as under:
| Sl No | RCMV MOBILE Cancer Project for women | Tentative cost(INR) |
| 1 | Bus with body building plus other accessories | 49,00,000 |
| 2 | Insurance, Road tax etc | 150,000 |
| 3 | Mammography machine with reader along with 5yrs maintenance | 70,00,000 |
| 4 | Generator with 5 years Maintenance 25KVA for X ray & air-conditioner | 400,000 |
| 5 | 2.5 KVA Servo Stabilizer for equipment | 50,000 |
| 6 | Laptop & printer | 50,000 |
| Total | 1,25,50,000 | |
| in USD 167,333 |
We look forward from each Rotarian to join hands in this fight against Breast & Cervical Cancer.
We do understand each one of you have your own priority within your community, a support at this juncture through DDF would be highly appreciable.
Dr.Nandakumar Dist Governor 22-23, Rotary Dist 3232 with Dr.Balaji singh associate Dean & Dr.Thamizhchelvan,
HOD of Oral pathology at Sri Ramachandra medical centre
Note:
- The above figures are approximate estimation and the actual cost may be on higher side as the requirement does not include the operational expenses.
- Cheque or DD shall be drawn in the name of ‘R.C.M.V. COMMUNITY WELFARE CHARITABLE TRUST’ and the donation will be tax benefited under section 80-G.
- Alternately, you can transfer the money to our Trust bank account
RCMV COMMUNITY WELFARE CHARITABLE TRUST,
CANARA BANK, S/B A/C # 2648101007885
SALIGRAMAM BRANCH, CHENNAI, India
IFSC CODE: CNRB0002648
For more details, please contact:
1. Rtn Mohan Boovaragan, President (20-21), +91 90030 42916,
2. Rtn Chandrasekaran, Project Chairman, +91 9841271152, ceo@groupnpay.com
3. Rtn Jayachandra Babu, President (22-23), +91 98410 80669
4. Rtn Arunagiri, Managing Trustee, +91 98401 36443
5. Rtn Dr.Nandakumar, District Governor (22-23), Rotarydist-3232, +91 9790973903, nandakumar3230@gmail.com