Support Swasth & ACT Grants to procure Oxygen concentrators | Milaap
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Support Swasth & ACT Grants to procure Oxygen concentrators for India
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    Created by

    Akanshasingh
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    Swasth

    from Bengaluru, Karnataka

Tax benefits for INR donations will be issued by United Way of Bengaluru

As of today, India is undergoing a severe second wave with the world’s highest daily cases. Hospitals and healthcare providers are running out of resources in the fight against COVID-19 and the situation on the ground is dire.

Oxygen is critically required to treat patients affected with COVID, many of whom require hospitalization due to fluctuating oxygen levels. However, there is a severe shortage of oxygen availability across hospitals in India. Oxygen concentrators are alternate devices to oxygen cylinders – while cylinders contain a finite amount of oxygen supply, a concentrator recycles oxygen from the air and delivers it to the patient. They can be used to manage patient requirements without looking for external sources of oxygen.

Swasth Digital Health Foundation along with ACT Grants is looking to procure oxygen concentrators and channel them to hospitals across levels of care in remote areas for COVID response and long-term health system strengthening. These oxygen concentrators can save many thousands of lives and bolster much-needed resources for hospitals. They can also be used to treat outpatients, reducing the load on hospital beds and easing the stress faced by patients.

Swasth is looking to raise Rs.1.5 Crores to procure the concentrators and deploy the same in areas of great need. The process of distribution of concentrators will be transparent and published in the public domain so every donor can see the impact he has created. The effort has already secured 10000 concentrators for immediate deployment and is currently raising funds to procure more.

Each high flow oxygen concentrator costs Rs. 85,000 and each low flow concentrator costs Rs 45,000.
  • A contribution of Rs.45000 will procure one low-flow concentrator that can treat and save the lives of up to 900 patients with mild to moderate illness.
  • A contribution of Rs. 85000 will procure one high-flow concentrator that can treat and save the lives of up to 550 patients with a severe or critical illness.
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For High Value Donations: DAFs, Family Foundations and HNIs in the US


[Note: As this is a Covid relief initiative, Milaap and Asset India are charging a 0% processing fee on the donations.]

Donations above $5000 towards Swasth’s initiative to procure Oxygen concentrators (https://milaap.org/oxygen), can be made through Milaap’s partner in the US, and will receive tax-exemption for US tax-residents.

 Please send an email to anoj@milaap.org and karthik@milaap.org forbank account details

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