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INDIVIDUAL GRANTS
PROMOTING TALENT, medical attention beyond the reach of even
middle-income families in the country. Though medical
ASSUAGING PHYSICAL insurance is becoming increasingly popular in India, it does
SUFFERING not cover the entire cost of treatment, especially for cases,
such as cancer, heart ailments, cochlear implants, kidney
While Tata Trusts have been engaged in major diseases, etc. Charitable trusts and benevolent individuals
philanthropic activities, they have not lost sight of the then seem to be the only recourse available to
‘individual.’ Since their founding, great emphasis has been individuals/families experiencing a health emergency and
laid on assisting with the health and education costs of being unable to bear the financial burden of treatment.
needy and meritorious individuals. The Individual Grants
Programme across the Trusts adopts a comprehensive, The Trusts have utilised their vast network of medical
systematic, and most importantly, fair, and humane professionals and social workers at various prominent
approach to identifying individuals in need, and deserving government, municipal, private, and charitable hospitals
of, financial assistance. The programme comprises within the country to provide help. The linkages with these
medical and educational grants. hospitals help in assessing the socio-economic condition of
the family, forwarding the form with the entire set of
documents to the Trusts, and providing information on the
MEDICAL GRANTS utilisation of the grant disbursed by the Trusts for the
patient’s treatment. All new linkages established by the Trusts
A medical emergency, for most families, causes are valid for a specific time period, after which a review is
tremendous emotional and financial stress. Escalating undertaken to decide on further action. The Trusts were
hospital bills and medicine costs have rendered decent actively collaborating with 23 hospitals as of March 2022.
Details of Medical Grants sanctioned/disbursed under Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Allied Trusts from April 2021 to March 2022
Number of Amount Sanctioned Number of Amount
Aliments
Applications Sanctioned (`)* Disbursals Made Disbursed (`) #
Cancer 621 242,610,000 535 160,915,449
Cochlear Implant 48 24,917,000 40 21,608,000
Heart 218 46,000,000 226 34,408,528
Liver Disease 43 25,736,000 28 15,340,849
Others 385 102,794,000 315 75,096,574
Total 1,315 442,057,000 1,144 307,369,400
* Sanctions may also relate to applications received during the previous year, in addition to those received during the year in review.
# Disbursals include grants sanctioned during the previous year, as well as the year in review. Further, a sum of `1.53 million disbursed by
the Allied Trusts of SRTT towards relief of poverty has not been included in the table above.
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