CATS Heartline Blood Donation

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A young boy of 12 years cannot think of living beyond histeens he has a defective heart valve and althoughtreatment is available by which his life line can be

expanded to normal span.

His fault is that he is born in a poor family.

His parents have been running from pillar to post to collect

the funds but still cannot come anywhere near theminimum cost required for congenital cardiac correctivesurgery.

They give up and with darkness in life await the inevitable.

Can we allow this to ha en?Can we allow this to ha en?

A StoryA Story


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There are some who think otherwise

The ThoughtsThe Thoughts


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In 1998 Rotary Club Chandigarh began a project called The Gift of Life

Till 2004, with donations received, they had carried out major heartsurgeries on 100 Under-Privileged children

It took 6 years to conduct the first 100 surgeries

At this time, this Centennial Project was renamed HeartLine and they

have saved a total of 209 lives thus far

It took 4 years to conduct the next 100 surgeries

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Medical consumables required for each surgery cost Rs.65,000

Chandigarh Rotary Club meets the cost of surgeries by raising

voluntary donations through its members. They get no grants

PGI Chd. and Fortis Mohali are partners in the project

Each surgery requires 6 units of blood

Most of the patients are from far flung towns, near impossibletask for their families to arrange donors in a strange city

The HeartlineThe Heartline


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Sole criteria being financial status of the patient(family) and the urgency for the surgery to be

performed, they have helped children from manycountries, including:

The CriteriaThe Criteria

IndiaNepal

UgandaSri LankaAfghanistanPakistan


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Some of the beneficiaries of the Heart Lineproject have included:

The ReachThe Reach

Child of a Tea Vendor from Ambala Railway Station Child of a Farmer from Ajnala with small land holding Child of a Rickshaw puller from Pinjore

Child of a Driver from Ganga Nagar Child of a Pathi from The Golden Temple Child of a Daily Wager from Hallomajra Child of an Unemployed person from Kangra


8/27Celebrating 100 Surgeries

The ProgressThe Progress


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Blood Donation Camp held by

CATS in January helped 12

children during and post

surgery to recover from their

congenital ailment in the last

three months

Why CATS?Why CATS?


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Meet the children you have

provided assistance to

The ResultsThe Results


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These Children may not be here

today without your help

Thank YouThank You


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CATS & Heart LineCATS & Heart Line

Nothing could possibly give

more satisfaction than

seeing these smiles on thefaces of these children when

they leave the hospital after

being successfully operated

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Thanks to you friends, little children who undergo free

heart surgery under the Rotary Heartline project of

Rotary Club of Chandigarh, shall always be grateful to

you for saving their lives. And what a better way tocelebrate life for the CATS by saving the lives of

children they know not.

On behalf of Rotary Club of Chandigarh I complimenteveryone, and am sure, together we shall continue to

touch the lives of the people around us with many

more such adventures of selfless service.

- Elusive CAT Charanjit (Past President Chandigarh Rotary Club)

CATS & RotaryCATS & Rotary


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Would You Continue to Like To Help Change The

Lives Of Those Who Are Less Fortunate?

CATS & HeartlineCATS & Heartline

http://rotarychandigarh.blogspot.com

www.rotarychandigarh.org

Rotary Club

Chandigarh

http://chandigarhadventures.blogspot.com

www. corepr.com/cats/index.htm


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Three months is the safe recommended time

gap for repeat donation of blood donation forboth males and females

CATS had collected 41 units in January08

Could we look forward to your generosity again

on 25th of April?

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Date: Friday, 25th of Apr'08

Time: 9am - 5pm

Venue: Fortis Hospital, Mohali (Reach Fortis Blood Bank, located just beyond theIPD Counter)

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Do bring along your family, friends, colleagues,neighbours for this noble cause

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