LET YOUR Pune Neurosciences Trust &

COMPASSION & GENEROSITY

Research Society’s

HELP THEM TO SURVIVE AND

REDISCOVER THEIR SMILE
Feel together, Heal together

Address:
Samavedana
c/o Sahyadri Hospitals Corporate Office, Near Vanaz Corner, Paud Road,
Kothrud, Pune - 411038.
+91 20 67215000 | www.samavedana.org | contact@samavedana.org www.samavedana.org
 SAMAVEDANA
‘Samam’ means along with or together & ‘Vedana’ means suffering or pain

Samavedana Samavedana is the ‘action’ taken to understand and relieve his pain.

means to totally Dr. Charudutt Apte, renowned neurosurgeon and several of his
empathize with the associates have helped hundreds of poor patients through ‘Pune
Neurosciences Trust and Research Society’ by providing high quality
needy and to share medical care at extremely low cost or on occasions, absolutely free
his pain as if it were of cost. To expand the scale and scope of this mission and to get the
involvement and participation of society,
our own and to be
“Samavedana” was formed on April 1, 2003.
their companion.

Our Vision is to bring essential healthcare within the

reach of the underprivileged, with Compassion
(Samavedana).
Dr Charudutt Apte, Neurosurgeon
Founder
 Mission :
To provide monetary aid to
the needy for tertiary care,
in association with doctors
offering pro bono treatment
& hospitals offering
non-profit services
“
Little Hearts Everybody thought she is a liability with a broken heart
Samavedana has helped us prove her as the best asset
we could have by helping us treat her defect She can
”
go to school and lead normal healthy life now.
Rationale:
Every year 0 2 Mn children are born with major defect in
their hearts or spine 50 children die due to non availability
of proper healthcare Samavedana tries to reach to them
and save those precious lives
As an extension of Financial Aid program, Samavedana
took up ‘treatment of children with congenital defects’ as
its mission in November 2018
Features:
• Surgeries treatment of children born with defects of
hearts, spine or blood
• Run to complement State Government’s ‘Mission
Muskan to treat these children
• 85 Surgeries in just a period of 8 months, giving aid of
INR 45 Mn
Proposed to treat 200 children in FY 2019 2020.
Amount required: INR 30 Mn
 Mission:
To provide monetary aid to
the needy for tertiary care,
in association with doctors
offering pro bono treatment
Rationale:
Tertiary/specialty care, which is not available in public
hospitals, demands expenses which many families
cannot afford. In India, 60 Mn of patient families are
forced below poverty line every year. We support such
patients; who can lead a long active life post treatment
and be an asset to the family and society.

& hospitals offering

non-profit services
Highlights:
• Started in 2003
• Fast sanction
• Careful screening of patients
• Fund raised from society
• Free services by doctors
• Subsidized services by hospital

“
• 1350 + cases assisted till date, help more than C140 mn.

Financial Aid If Samavedana had not lent a helping hand, I would • Fund Utilization Report to each and every dono
have had to sell my land for the treatment of my child.

for Treatment They healed my present without me having to put my Annual Budget

”
future in misery.” • C1 Crore

- Pravin
 Mission:
To conduct specialized in-house and out-reach programs for prevention &
early detection of cancer in women from rural and slum areas
Rationale: Highlights:
The occurrence of breast and cervical cancer is • Started in 2009
growing globally. Early diagnosis is the key to

“
• Women from urban slums and rural area, age
good chances of survival. However, in India, for group: 30 yrs to 60 yrs
every two women newly diagnosed with breast
• Level 1: Community based: iBE (for breast)
cancer, one lady dies of it as compared to one in
and VIA (for cervix)
five in North America.*
• Level 2: Hospital Based: Colposcopy,
The awareness about cancer is negligible in
Mammography and Oncology Counseling
women in India. This programme aims at
• Level 3: Confirmatory tests and treatment
creating awareness about cancer, motivating
and screening the women and helping them • 18000 + women screened till date, now with

“
through confirmation diagnostics and treatment new technology we reach 5000 a year
if needed. • 37 Cancer & hundreds with different ailments

Preventive Cancer Doctors say you have to be lucky to diagnose

cancer at this early stage. If I wasn’t gone
diagnosed and treated.

Screening & Care through screening done by Samavedana, I Annual Budget

don’t know what would have happened to me . • C72 Lacs

”
- Suman
 Mission: Rationale:
Health aspect in today’s education system only speaks of physical
To make school going health. It also fails to highlight importance of health promotion.
WHO defines ‘health’ as physical, mental and social wellbeing.
children, and so their
To achieve this health, the programme aims on capability building
community, healthier of students by involving students, teachers
and parents.
mentally, physically and
socially through activity
Highlights:
based health promotion and • For class 5th to 10 th
awareness sessions • 25 schools from Mulshi Block in Pune district, covering 8,050
students
• General, eye check up. Treatment for anemia, developmental
delays & eye surgeries

“
• In coordination with Public Health Department & Education
Department of state Government

School School Health Program is a great initiative by Samavedana

that contributes to Government's missions in a complementary
• Capacity building on areas like nutrition, safety, adolescence, etc
• Knowledge imparting which will turn into action and habit.

Health way. The idea of building capabilities of youngest members of

the nation toward health is really commendable.

Programme
Annual Budget

”
Girish Gaitonde, Founder and CEO, Xoriant Corporation • C60 Lacs
 Mission:
To deliver primary essential care to the medically underserved communities
in the rural region using innovation and technical advancements.

Rationale:
The backwaters of Mulshi region was served
with primary healthcare by Public Health
Department using ‘ launch a floating clinic ’.
But with lowering water levels as well
development of motorable roads reaching
to the villages, mobile health unit serves as
effective and efficient model.
Since the launch was inactive, this population
Highlights:
• Run in partnership with Public Health
Department, ZP, Pune
• Serves 13 villages in Mulshi Block of Pune
District, Maharashtra’s interiors
• Primary and preventive healthcare to
5000 population
• Participates in accomplishing Govt. missions

“
like vaccination, Mother and Child health etc.
who were solely dependent on the services
through launch were in misery. Samavedana

Mobile Everyone deserves and desires basic healthcare. This

medically equipped van helps us deliver the same to
and Public Health Department joined hands to
resume health services and that too at the

Health Unit the rural community in Mulshi’s interiors. village centers.

”
- Dr Ajit Karanjkar, Taluka Health Office,
Mulshi Block, Dist: Pune.
April 2003
Inception of Samavedana
under the guidance of
Feb 2011
Skin and Organ
Donation Awareness
PRINCIPLES AND VALUES AT SAMAVEDANA
Dr. Charudutt Apte April 2017
Mobile Health Unit in association
May 2015 with PHD, MH State in Mulshi area
Revision of vision, Social Returns on investments: stakeholders the funders and the beneficiaries
mission and logo of
Sept 2007
the organization
Samavedana strongly believe that the funds and treating everyone with equality, irrespective of
Health Check up Camps for invested by the society in a social cause should their cast, creed, religion and gender.
women and children from villages May 2017
and remote areas Community Based Cancer
get very good social returns. Hence the aid goes We send Fund Utilizations Report to each of our
Screening Programme to patients, who can be assets to the society donors to let them know where their money is
after the treatment and not a liability. Similarly, all being used. We also publish quarterly & annual
2003 2004 2007 2009 2011 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 programs are evaluated on their social value and reports
then only are accepted for implementation.
Continuously evolving with respect to need and
February 2016 Replicability and scalability: technology:
Nov 2018
Community Clinic at ‘Little Hearts’- a
Creating solutions should also aim on its We thrive for and adapt to new technologies and
Dec 2009
Upper Indiranagar special programme possibility of replication and scaling. So these trends to find best solution to suffice
Started Preventive Cancer
to treat congenital parameters are also applied to programs before organizational objectives.
Screening Programme
defects, contributes
to Mission Muskaan implementation
Professional approach:
2004
Expansion of Compassion, Transparency and Equality: We believe in professional approach for problem
March 2014 June 2017
Samavedana aid Samavedana takes pride in compassionate solving and administering the organization.
across specialities Social Impact Analysis of School Health Programme in
Samavedana on completion 20 schools of Mulshi tehsil, with behaviour as the name ‘Samavedana’ means; in
with inception of
Sahyadri Hospital of 10 years in principle support of ZP, Pune being transparent towards both ends of
 SAMAVEDANA
PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES & PROJECTS

• CONTINUOUS PROGRAM: CASE BASIS • ON GOING ACTIVITY: COMMUNITY BASED

PROJECTS
• Financial Aid to patients
• Started in 2003 , 1150 patients helped, • Preventive Cancer Screening for Women
Help worth Rs 10.5 crores • Started in 2009 , 8000 beneficiaries
from urban slums in Pune and Satara
• FinAid: Little Hearts
• Initiated in 2018, more than 85 kids • School Health programme
with cardiac defects at birth are treated. • Started in June 2017, 27 schools from
VISION Samavedana bridges the gap between needy and
the healthcare. Need may be because of lack of
21 villages in Mulshi tehsil which
• AWARENESS AND PROMOTION: benefits more than 8000 students
To bring essential healthcare within reach of the • Affordability • Availability
underprivileged; with Compassion (Samavedana). • Accessibility • Awareness • Cancer Prevention • Mobile Health Unit
• Health education, sanitation, organ donation. • Started in April 2017 , in association
with ZP Pune and Public Health
We continuously thrive to come up with innovative models to empathize satisfy the healthcare requirements. Department, Maharashtra, serves 13
Impacting more than 16000 lives every year. villages situated behind Mulshi dam.
We mainly work on 3 fronts namely Treatment, Prevention and Awareness.
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SUPPORT LIFE, SUPPORT SAMAVEDANA!
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” - Arthur Ashe
Mr. Nitin Dr. Jayashree Dr. Pradeep Dr. Deepa Mr. Prakash Mr. Sudheer Mr. Rohit Ms. Radhika
Desai Apte Divate Divekar Tulpule Sabane Tulpule Apte Get Involved Bank Details
• Monetary contribution For India Donors: PNTRS A/c SAMAVEDANA
• Host Fundraisers HDFC Bank Ltd.
GOVERNING COUNCIL Bhandarkar Road Branch, Pune- 411 004
• Start ‘Friends of Samavedana’ locally Savings Bank A/c No. – 50100095737512
• Contribute time, skill, contacts IFSC Code – HDFC0000007
Dr. Charudutt Mr. Nitin Mr. Prakash Mr. Jayant Mr. Rajeev
Apte Desai Tulpule Sapre Bhide • Share professional expertise UPI: Samavedana@hdfcbank
Contributions to Samavedana are
• Learn & Contribute : Be an Intern
tax exempt u/s 80G of IT Act.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE • Be a NGO Partner
For Foreign Donors: Samavedana (FCRA account)
• CSR Partnership A/c Name: Pune Neurosciences Trust & Research Society
Mr. Ramakant Mr. Sudhir Mr. Bapu Mr. Rajeev Mr. Mandar • Corporate Giving Programme Bank Name: HDFC Bank Ltd
Tamboli Gadgil Potdar Sabade Joglekar SWIFT : HDFCINBB
IFSC code:HDFC0000007
Account number: 50100095669722
WORKING COMMITTEES
Donate online, visit : www.samavedana.org USA citizens can avail tax exemption in USA by contributing
25+ volunteers including CAs, advocates, teachers, etc
through PISA (pisausa2@gmail.com) or GlobalGiving
Employee Team: 15 full time professionals headed by Affiliations, partnerships and supporters:
Mrs. Preeti Damle , CEO

Samavedana maintains the administrative cost under 13% of annual spent on charity.