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Nearly 25 years aft its formation, the Sri Venkateswara Pranadanam Trust continues to money the attraction of economically disadvantaged patients suffering from chronic diseases.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) launched the strategy nether the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), a ace speciality infirmary successful Tirupati. Interestingly, the strategy was inaugurated connected October 1, 2001 by the contiguous Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu during his earlier tenure.
The spot was conceived to person donations from philanthropists and utilise the funds to conscionable the surgical and attraction requirements of the poor.
Recently, the TTD Joint Executive Officer (Health and Education) A. Sharath conducted a reappraisal gathering to show the show of the strategy arsenic it enters its 25th year.
The TTD has enhanced its fiscal assistance to the spot successful phases. The publication stood astatine ₹15 lakh per period successful February 2003 and was accrued to ₹25 lakh per period successful April 2005, ₹30 lakh successful March 2006, ₹50 lakh successful January 2008 and a important ₹1 crore per period successful April 2014.
So far, 51,957 donors person contributed astir ₹520 crore to the trust. Between November 2001 and February 2026, a full of 27,710 patients received aesculapian attraction worthy ₹158 crore done the scheme. The spot besides bears the outgo of artificial organs, implants and humor slope services, offering captious enactment to mediocre patients.
Apart from backing attraction and analyzable surgeries, the spot besides supports probe connected chronic and circumstantial diseases. The ailments covered see chronic kidney failure, haemophilia, thalassaemia, cancer, cardiac diseases and neurological disorders specified arsenic ataxia, chorea, hemiballismus and aphasia.
The TTD Chief Public Relations Officer T. Ravi has renewed his entreaty to devotees visiting Tirumala for darshan to donate humor astatine the SVIMS infirmary and marque their pilgrimage much meaningful.
