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Individual Grants




                      Changing lives,                            Details of Medical Grants sanctioned/disbursed under Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Allied Trusts
                                                                 from April 2020 to March 2021
                      a grant at a time                                                    Number of     Amount Sanctioned  Number of      Amount
                                                                  Ailments
                                                                                       Applications Sanctioned  (`)*      Disbursals Made  Disbursed (`) #
                      While Tata Trusts have been engaged in major   Aid to differently
                      philanthropic activities, they have not lost sight of   abled individuals       2          346,000             8       2,920,000
                      the ‘individual’. Since their founding, great emphasis
                      has been laid on assisting in the health and   Burns                           16         4,483,000           16        1,975,761
                      education costs of needy and meritorious
                      individuals. The Individual Grants Programme   Cancer                         614       198,991,000          803      170,716,194
                      across the Trusts adopts a comprehensive,
                      systematic and, most importantly, fair and humane   Chronic Illness            72         9,476,800           64       7,290,922
                      approach to identify individuals in need and
                      deserving of financial assistance. The Programme   Cochlear Implant              6         2,800,000           26       9,032,098
                      comprises Medical Grants and Educational Grants.
                                                                  Ophthalmic                          2          178,000             1              105,000
                      Medical Grants                              General Surgery                     7          810,000             4        394,000

                      A medical emergency, for most families, causes   Gynecological                  3          220,000             3        220,000
                      tremendous emotional and financial stress.
                      Escalating hospital bills and medicine costs have   Heart                     105         16,135,000          174     16,464,124
                      rendered decent medical attention beyond the
                      reach of even the middle-class population of the   ICU Treatment               45        10,104,000           44       7,388,058
                      country. Though medical insurance is becoming
                      increasingly popular in India, it does not cover the   Kidney                  24         7,333,000           26       6,030,389
                      entire cost of treatment, especially for cases such
                      as cancer, heart ailments, cochlear implants,   Liver Disease                  14         6,271,000            12      5,966,000
                      kidney diseases etc. Charitable trusts and
                      benevolent individuals have been the only   Neurology                          16         5,301,000            17      4,666,839
                      recourse for these families to help them
                      overcome their financial burden.             Neurosurgery                       26         4,929,000            21      3,537,369
                      The Trusts are utilising their spreading network of   Neo Natal Intensive Care
                      medical professionals and social workers at   Unit (NICU) Treatment            22         2,809,000           18       2,062,198
                      various prominent government, municipal, private
                      and charitable hospitals within the country. The   Orthopedic                  35          5,311,000          30       3,774,274
                      linkages with these hospitals help in assessing the
                      socio-economic condition of the family,     Respiratory                         2          748,000             2        748,000
                      forwarding the form with the entire set of
                      documents to the Trusts and providing       Tuberculosis                        3          926,000             2        460,253
                      information on the utilisation of the grant   Others                            -                -             -       5,667,500
                      disbursed by the Trusts for the patient’s
                      treatment. All new linkages established by the   Total                      1,014       277,171,800         1,272    249,418,979
                      Trusts are valid for a specific time period, after
                      which a review is undertaken to decide on further   (*) Sanctions may also relate to applications received during the previous year, in addition to those received during the year in review.
                      action. The Trusts have active linkages with 37   (#) Disbursals include grants sanctioned during the previous year, as well as the year in review.
                      hospitals as on March 2021.





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