Major Activities of Aishwaryam Trust

Aishwaryam Trust is an organisation run by a medical fraternity in Madurai in the Tamil Nadu state of India. It is a medical and social organisation working for the well-being of the medically and social abandoned. The Trust is running a 50 bedded medical service centre named after socially minded (Late) Dr Nethravathi, who died of cancer. Nethravathi Pain, Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Centre (NPPRC). The continuum of palliative care has served numbers of about 2,837 ever since, its inception. It is a professional organisation serves to provide meaningful end of life care.

The Modus Operandi

Rescue operation:

A rescue team of the organisation search and find the abandoned people in terrible condition and reaches them and rescue them following all the police and social welfare department formalities. Often a couple of nurses accompany the team and do the first aid at sight and bring them to NPPRC.

Pain Relief and Palliative Care:

At NPPRC, everyone admitted are given shelter, food, clothes, diagnosis and further medical attention. A multidisciplinary professional team including a Duty Medical Officer, Physiotherapist, Nurses, Lab Technician, Pharmacist and other care givers. The specialist doctors (the board of trustees are speciality doctors) treat the inmates for enhancing their quality of life guided by the principle that dying and suffering deserve compassionate care that help their physical, emotional and spiritual needs

• Palliative care under professional and compassionate team helps the patients gain the strength to carry on with daily life.
• By active treatment and comfort-based care their ability to tolerate medical treatment and symptom management helps them live out their life the best they can.
• By sheltering homeless terminally ill are protected from all the abuses
• Overall quality of life is enhanced despite being seriously ill with numbers of critical conditions.

Rehabilitation and Reunion with Family:

With further and continuous treatment, a number of patients admitted have rehabilitated to normal life by the relentless effort to medical care. So far, since its establishment, 257 patients are reunited with their families. While the patients are admitted into NPPRC, with the support of the police department, identifies their family and give them counselling to receive back their family members, who were once abandoned by the family.

Year wise data of various social service activities

Year 2014:

In 2014, the Aishwaryam Trust registered as Trust by young post graduate medical doctors, who were all in their thirties. The doctor-trustees contacted medical camps in the rural areas and assisted the rural people with free medicines and referred them for further ailments which the rural population are ignorant about. Palliative care began in rented building for 20 terminally ill homeless people.

Sl.No.	Activity	Units	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		256
2.	Medical Camp	4 Villages	403

Year 2015: Palliative care continued and new activities are carried out. New activities initiated.

Sl.No.	Activity	Units	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		277
2.	Medical Camp	5 Villages	607
3.	Blood Donation camps	25 Donors	25 Units of blood to GH
4.	Care takers of mentally retard and cerebral palsy children consultation	5 events	130 children 130 care takers

Year 2016: Medical Adoption 5 children’s home and destitute homes received regular medical consultation and treatment.

Sl.No.	Activity	Units	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		285
2.	Medical Camp	10 Villages	1059
3.	Medical Adoption	5 Homes	205

Year 2017: New Activity Yoga for Health 78 people attend a week-long camp.

Sl.No.	Activity	Units	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		373
2.	Medical Camp	7 Villages	1056
3.	Yoga for Health	1 Week	78
4.	Special Activity for Special children (MRCP)	7 Schools	63

Year 2018: Camp for MR & CP children organized to understand and guide them

Sl.No.	Activity	Units	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		292
2.	Medical Camp	7 Villages	1056
3.	Yoga for Health	1 Week	78
4.	Children with Mental Retardation and Cerebral Palsy Camp	7 Schools	63

Year 2019: Special Children intervention for MR&CP children in a special school beside regular Palliative care.

Sl.No.	Activity	Unit	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care at NPPRC		284
2.	Medical Camp	10 Villages	1316
3.	Children with Mental Retardation and Cerebral Palsy Camp		56

Year 2020:

Sl.No.	Activity	Unit	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		356
2.	Blood Donation Camp	30 Donors	30 Units of blood to GH
3.	No to smoking awareness campaign	500 circles	10000 Approximately
4.	Hepatitis Awareness Campaign	100 places	2000 approximately
5.	Suicide Prevention Counselling Camp	1 Day Camp	200 College students

Year 2021:

Sl.No.	Activity	Unit	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care inflow and outflow of patients		363
2.	Covid19 Response
	Face Masks	500	500
	Awareness Pamphlets	1000	1000
	Food Material	75 packs

Year 2022:

Sl.No.	Activity	Unit	Beneficiary
1.	Palliative Care at NPPRC		351
2.	Covid19 Response
	- Face shields to doctors	1000	1000
	- PPE Kits to ESIC hospital	100	100
3.	Emergency medical aid to MRCP	2 families	2 families
4.	Wheel Chairs to Old age Home	2	Mentally Challenged Home
5.	Major Medical Support
	- Bioprosthetic valve implanted	1 person	1 heart patient
	- Myopathic affected child treatment expenses	1 girl child	1 girl child
6.	Food Material Distribution during Covid
	Transgender	200 packs	200 persons
	Visually challenged families	110 packs	110 families
	Rural Artists	45 packs	45 families
	Poor	16 packs	16 families
7.	Sewing Machine to Social Welfare Department	3 Machines	A number of women
8.	Furniture for special school children’s use		37 special children
9.	Children Living with HIV/AIDS Aid	1 day event	60 Children

Environmental Action:

The Aishwaryam Trust successfully executed the programme on National Campaign for Promoting Atma Nirbhar. It has planted 5100 various herbal saplings in 16 villages in the Madurai district in coordination with civil society organisations and government departments. Further, on the World Earth Day, 200 Saplings were donated to MTN College and American College.

A Wake-Up Call: A Short Film on Road Accident Awareness

"A Wake-Up Call" is a short film aimed at creating awareness about road accidents and promoting safe riding and driving practices. This film is part of a youth awareness campaign programme that seeks to educate and inspire young individuals to prioritize road safety.

Inflow and Outflow of Terminally Ill Patients

Total number of terminally ill patients	2837
Number of patients reunited after rehabilitation	257
Average yearly terminally ill patients received palliative care	315