Maintenance of Neonatal Units equipment across

all Govt Hospitals in TamilNadu

IMPLEMENTED BY: EKAM FOUNDATION

SUPPORTED BY: UNITED CARE DEVELOPMENT

SERVICES

PROJECT PHASE: Apr - September, 2012

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Contents

Introduction to Ekam Foundation ......................................................................................... 3

Introduction to United Care Development Services ............................................................. 4

Supporting Intensive Care Units at Govt hospitals across the state of Tamilnadu .............. 5

Support for Paediatric Care at ICH, Egmore, Chennai ........................................................ 5

Financial Report ................................................................................................................... 6

Conclusion ............................................................................................................................ 7

Annexure I ............................................................................................................................ 8

Annexure II ......................................................................................................................... 10

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Introduction to Ekam Foundation

Ekam works for the health care

of underprivileged children in TamilNadu, India.

They admit poor children in private hospitals with

whom Ekam have networked and reimburse the

subsidies given by them. Ekam bring in support

for the hospitalization (secondary & tertiary care)

of the children admitted in private hospitals and

renting ventilators, lab support & medicines for

the children of Government Hospitals.

Ekam was formally inaugurated on July 1st 2007 as a

Community Pediatric Project of CIOSA

(Confederation of Indian Organizations for service and

Advocacy) which is the CSR initiative of Mafoi

foundation. Ekam Foundation spun off as separate

organization in August 2009. Ekam adopted a Public

private partnership model by partnering with the

government health department on 14th Nov, 2008.

Ekam has got the official permission from NRHM-

National Rural Health Mission for appointing 344

Nurses in 37 Medical College Hospitals and District

Head Quarters Hospitals in the entire State and

Monitoring all the 41 Sick Newborn care units (SCNU)

established in the State for reducing the Neonatal

Mortality Rate as a part of Public Private

Partnership initiative.

Based on this Ekam has partnered with NGOs across

TamilNadu and started a community monitoring

project , Bala Arogya Suraksha Project.

The major Projects handled by Ekam are:

1) Upgrading Government hospitals – 44 SNCUs

in TN.

2) Bala Arogya Suraksha Project – 20 districts of

TN

OVERVIEW:

IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZATION:

Ekam Foundation

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Inaugurated on July 7th, 2007

Spun off as a separate

organisation in August, 2009

Non-Profit organisation

registered under trust Act

AREA OF ACTION:

Tamil Nadu.

Website:

www.ekamoneness.org

AREAS OF WORK:

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Introduction to United Care

Development Services

UC's model aims to improve the scale and

efficiency of financing education, health and

energy & environmental services for the very

poor, through a result-based and post-paid model

of funding. What this means is that UC applies its

own funds to provide services to beneficiaries.

UC then documents the work and presents the

results from these projects as Result Certificates.

Interested investors and donors are then invited

to post-pay for results and acquire these Result

Certificates. UC’s objective is to generate greater

Social Returns for philanthropic investments

through this model.

OVERVIEW:

UNITED CARE DEVELOPMENT

SERVICES

LEGAL STATUS: Sec-25 Not for

Profit Company

YEAR OF INCEPTION: June, 2009

YEAR OF INCORPORATION:

February, 2010

SOURCE OF FUNDING:

PostPay Donors and Grant from

Micheal and Susan Dell

Foundation.

AREAS OF WORK:

Health, Education and

Environment

RECOGNITION:

In December 2009, UC was

shortlisted in global competition

on “Marketplace on Innovative

Financial Solutions for

Development” organized by

World Bank.

Website: www.yousee.in

Updates:

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Supporting Intensive Care Units at Govt hospitals across the state of Tamilnadu

a) Survey of Status of Equipment at Neonatal Units

The Bio-medical equipment status for all the 41 Sick New-born care units

(SNCU) in Tamilnadu was supported and monitored with the engineering team for

functioning of all the equipment in the units, for reducing the Neonatal Mortality Rate

as part of public private partnership initiative between Ekam Foundation and

Government

b) Helpline Number for servicing of Neonatal Unit Equipment

A new helpline number (9445922333) was launched to record the status of all

the Bio-medical equipment and to receive the information on the Break-downs or any

other service issues from all the SNCU’s in the state of Tamilnadu.

Support for Paediatric Care at ICH, Egmore, Chennai

c) Patient Information and Helps Desk Services

Help Desk services were initiated at the ICH, Egmore hospital to provide

information for the patients. At Help Desk, volunteers take up the responsibility to

guide the patients to appropriate locations. In special circumstances volunteers

accompany the patients to the desired location.

d) Data Digitization Support

Students from MOP college of Arts and Science have volunteered for digitizing

the data at NICU & PICU wards and helped in capturing all the patient information. A

Data entry manager was also appointed to handle all the admin data and

communication work at the Administrative department. Below Graphs give some

insights on the Gender wise admissions into the Orthopaedic department of the

Hospital.

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Financial Report

i. Support for procuring and setting up helpline number

To monitor and know the status of the equipment across the 41 SNCU units, YouSee has

procured a mobile phone and had set up a helpline number for coordinating with the

engineering team and resolve the issues.

ii. Funding of two staff members for a few months

UC had incurred the salaries of two Ekam staff for the period of April, 2012 to Sep

2012.Below table gives the detailed breakup of the salaries of the two staff.

S No Designation 12-Apr 12-May 12-Jun 12-Jul 12-Aug 12-Sep

1 Coordinator for Helpline & NICU Bio-

Medical Equipment for 44 SNCU’s 7,500 15000 15,000

2 Data Entry & Support Services person

at ICH 7,500 7,258 7,250 7258 7258 7258

Total 15,000 22,258 22,250 7,258 7,258 7,258

The consolidated Fund utilisation statement for the grants disbursed to Ekam Foundation

from its inception is given below

Date Narration Cheque

No

Grant

Disbursement

Utilization

Balance Balance

26-Jun-

12 Grant 500989 3,215 3,215

Mobile Bill for Help line 1,449 1,766

Mobile Phone 1,100 666

Mobile Bill for Help line 666 0

3-Jul-12 Grant 500990 60,000 60,000

Salary for April 15,000 45,000

Salary for May 22,258 22,742

Salary for June 22,250 492

8-Aug-12 Grant 500992 25,000 25,492

Salary for July 7,258 18,234

Salary for Aug 7,258 10,976

Salary for Sep 7,258 3,718

Donation towards other

expenses 3,718 0

Total 88,215 88,215

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Conclusion

Given this is unique model of supporting Public Health System, outcomes from this

project will help UC make strategic decision about furthering our interface with Public

Health Systems. Also depending on the response received from PostPay donors and other

important stake holders, UC team will aim at strengthening its presence at various Public

Health Systems across the country.

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Annexure I

Receipt for the Grant of Rs.3215

Receipt for the Grant of Rs.60,000

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Receipt for the Grant of Rs.25,000

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Annexure II

Phone Bills

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Vouchers for the month of April

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Vouchers for the month of May

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Vouchers for the Month of June

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Vouchers for the month of July & August for Sakuntala

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Voucher for the month of September