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Tamilnad Kidney Research Foundation (Tanker)

last updated Apr 24, 2013

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Tamilnad Kidney Research Foundation
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
1993
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle), 60-90% (middle to upper-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Number of Clients Served: 
55278 dialysis for 543 patients; 200 patients per year (As of March 2013)
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
3 dialysis facilities (As of March 2013)
Summary: 

The Tamilnad Kidney Research Foundation (TANKER) is a non-profit charitable trust, founded on 1993. TANKER has been set up primarily with the aim of providing financial assistance for underprivileged patients for dialysis, transplantation, investigation and medication costs. The Foundation also aims to encourage organ donation at time of death, so that cadaver transplantation can benefit needy patients.

Key program components: 

TANKER Foundation had small beginnings and initially only financial support was offered for poor patients. Gradually as contributions started coming in, TANKER started its subsidized dialysis facilities. Today, it has two dialysis units in Chennai and one in Madurai.

TANKER endeavors to make dialysis affordable for those patients who otherwise cannot afford it. Under its “Sponsor a dialysis” scheme from March 2001 to March 2009, 13,037 free dialysis have been given. At present, 30% of dialysis in all 3 units is being given free of cost. It is performing 300 free dialysis every month. Evidence of a patient's poverty level is obtained in the form of ration card and income certificates.

As of March 2009, 55,278 dialysis have been done for 543 patients.

TANKER also sponsors dialysis patients to undergo by allotting a sum of Rs 3000. the Foundation's target is to help at least four to six patients a month to undergo fistula surgery.

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