PALAV 2018 – A
3/2/19
Year in Review
Varad Mulay – Director of Communications
Project PAL AV
Palav.org nchouthai@gmail.com
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1. About PALAV
2. Accomplishments of
2018
3. What’s Next ?
4. Our Sponsors
5. How You Can Help
“PALAV started in 2010 in
the basement of Nitin and
Archana Chouthai’s home
as a humble idea, to save
babies born prematurely
with weak lungs.”
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About PALAV
Saving babies with weak lungs. A mission statement that
has driven an organization from a young, small group of
individuals with a dream to a sprawling, successful,
amazing nonprofit with lofty goals and the means to
achieve them. PALAV started in 2010 in the basement of
Nitin and Archana Chouthai’s home as a humble idea, to
save babies born prematurely with weak lungs. In their
first year, PALAV donated $10,000: an amazing start that
was only a shadow of their future accomplishments.
Over the next 8 years, PALAV built connections with
various philanthropic organizations, businesses, and
people. They expanded their operations to help
countless hospitals across India, Sri Lanka, Africa, and
started a project in our very backyard, Detroit.
Today PALAV works globally to save thousands of babies,
and has donated over $150,000 of medical equipment
over the last year. They have trained over 300 medical
professionals and furthered the capacity of many
hospitals to save prematurely born babies. Not only do
they donate to hospitals, they are also pioneers in
medical innovation, and continuously work on new ways
to save lives.
PALAV – Saving babies with weak lungs.
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Accomplishments of 2018

Over $150,000. That’s how much PALAV was able

to donate in 2018. PALAV works with many
hospitals throughout the world, using our medical
expertise, knowledge, and amazing volunteers to
help save prematurely born babies with weak
lungs. We saved lives at hospitals across the world. “These three projects
1. We collaborated with Rotary to create an entire Neonatal alone totaled $120,000
of support.”
Intensive care Unit at Sane Guruji Hospital, near Hadapsar. It was a
donation of warmers, jaundice diagnosis and therapy equipment,
ventilators, CPAP units, IV pumps. In addition, we also created a
training grid for nurses, resident doctors and parents to understand
and treat sick newborns.
2. We updated two more hospitals with similar support:
Bhandardara Peripheral health center, Tarachand hospital, Pune.
These three projects alone totaled $120,000 of support
3. We are supporting pediatric residents to Africa and India to learn
Global Pediatrics, provide teaching to their peers, and conduct
impact analyses.
4. We have started a campaign to improve breast-feeding in
Detroit. Rotary supports this campaign and will involve co-
coordinating efforts to improve breast-feeding acceptance in
community and corporate world.
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What’s Next?

With all this success over the past year, PALAV has committed itself
to further improving the community around it and the global
community as a whole.

In 2019, PALAV will continue work on building 100 centers in and

around Pune, Maharashtra, helping save thousands of babies per
year. This massive undertaking of over $200,000 will be executed in
partnership with Rotary, as well as many of our other partners.
A doctor stands near a baby, saved by a
PALAV will also outfit five centers with hypothermia units for babies, PALAV breathing support unit
each of which will save about 50 babies a year.
They will expand their breast-feeding initiative in Detroit and
continue pushing for awareness and acceptance in the workforce. “PALAV will continue
work on building 100
To improve not just the equipment of hospitals, but also their
personnel, PALAV will also train over 100 medical professionals in centers in and around
proper techniques for prenatal care. Pune, Maharashtra,
helping save thousands
of babies per year”

Our Sponsors

Donating medical equipment to countries across the globe is

not easy, and would be impossible without the help of PALAV’s
amazing sponsors. These are PALAVs largest sponsors of
2018.

• Rotary
• Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences
• Maharashtra Rural and Tribal Health
• Chhattisgarh Health Department
• World Medical Relief
• Global Health Program at Department of Pediatrics
• Novi HOSA
• Delta Epsilon Mu(WSU)
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PALAV is an extraordinary organization with an

amazing cause, but they can’t do it alone. All of
their progress would have been near impossible
without the help of their wonderful volunteers,
who donate time and experience in various
different areas. These volunteers are the
backbone of PALAV, and the organization could
not stand without them.
PALAV is always looking for new ways to improve
themselves and expand their community outreach,
and volunteers are an integral part of that.

How can you help?

PALAV is looking for volunteers in the following areas, as

well as many more that are not listed. We believe that
anyone can help the cause, regardless of age and
experience.
1. Educational Content Development
2. Medical Equipment procurement
3. Medical Equipment Logistics
4. Information technology
• A. App Development
• B. Watson Utilization
5. Medical Innovation
6. Communication Project PALAV
Palav.org nchouthai@gmail.com
7. Fundraising 732-710-1798

8. Purchasing and Supply Chain

Management

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