Committee Reports: TRF & Global Grant 2020-2021
Director-in-charge: Rtn. Meera Alreja
Chair: PP Vijay Jatia
Co-Chair: PP Nirav Shah
Members: DGN Sandip Agarwalla, Rtn. Hiren Kara, Rtn. Gaurav Nevatia, Rtn. Akhil Sanghi, Rtn. Abhishek Saraf, Rtn. Jaymin Jhaveri, Rtn. Vikram Daiya, Rtn. Vineet Suchanti, Rtn. Siddharth Bhimrajka, Rtn. Mudit Jain
The Club has contributed a total of US$ 2,11,238.88 towards The Rotary Foundation (final, up-to-date figures).
The break-up is as follows:
Annual Fund US$ 1,02,851
Endowment Fund US$ 20,833
Polio Fund US$ 2,000
Direct Gift US$ 85,554
Total US$ 2,11,238
Global Grant # 2119130 titled Masina Hospital CSSD & HFNC to hospitals
Report as on May 31st, 2021
During Rotary year 2020-21, Rotary Club of Bombay undertook yet another Global Grant Project GG # 2119130 titled ‘Masina Hospital CSSD & HFNC to hospitals’ thanks to the donation made by a trust of the Mandelia family – Janata Janardan Health Organisation (JJHO) – in memory of its founder trustees Durgaprasad & Suryaprakash Mandelia.
Additional grants were contributed by Dist 3141 and the Rotary International. The international partner club for the purposes of the GG was RC Ramlah, Israel, Dist 2490.
As the name suggests, this project involved:
(A) Setting up a CSSD facility at Masina Hospital and
(B) Providing 20 nos. HFNC (High Flow Nasal Cannula) machines to hospitals for treating Covid 19 patients
Masina Hospital was the beneficiary of three Global Grants executed by Rotary Club of Bombay as a result of which, a total of eight departments were set up/upgraded at a total cost of Rs 42,500,000. A hospital such as Masina needed to ensure proper supply f sterile materials for use in the Operation Theaters, wards, OPDs, emergency services departments and even the ambulance services. The Covid 19 pandemic created new challenges for hospitals to manage Covid and non-Covid services without compromising on the safety of both the categories of patients as also of the staff working in both the facilities.
The Rotary Club of Bombay set up the CSSD by way of purchase of the required equipment and donated it to Masina hospital who in turn will maintain & use the same.
Part B of the Project involved providing 20 HFNC machines to hospitals for treating Covid-19 patients. At the start of the Covid pandemic, there was a rush to install ventilators for treatment of patients.
However, with better understanding of the disease, medical practitioners realised the benefits of providing oxygen at high flow rates of 30 to 60 litre since it prevented patients from going on the ventilator which was often a point of no return. Thanks to some generous donors, RCB had already provided a handful of these machines to hospitals and received excellent feedback from them. We received requests for providing more HFNC machines from various hospitals including the ones to whom we had already donated these.
Hence, a total of 20 HFNC machines were donated to the following hospitals:
3 HFNC to H. J. Doshi Ghatkopar Hindu Sabha Hospital [https://hjdghsh.in/index.html]
3 HFNC to Masina Hospital Trust Byculla [www.masinahospital.com] {In addition, we had already donated 2 machines to them from our own funds}
2 HFNC to Mother Teresa Multi Speciality Hospital Virar [http://www.motherteresahospital.com/]
3 HFNC to Prince Aly Khan Hospital [https://www.agakhanhospitals.org/Mumbai]
3 HFNC to SRV Hospital [https://www.srvhospital.com/home/main]
3 HFNC to TATA ACTREC [https://actrec.gov.in/] {In addition, we had already donated 3 machines to them from our own funds}
3 HFNC to TATA Memorial [https://tmc.gov.in/index.php/en/]
