COVID Relief-Help Scale Philanthropic Hospitals in West | Milaap
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COVID Relief-Help Scale Philanthropic Hospitals in West Bengal
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    Created by

    Aakash Shah
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    COVID Patients

    from West Bengal

West Bengal has one of the highest positive rates in the country at 30%+ and cases have grown 10x in last 30 days. Kolkata Katalysts are a group of  professionals and business people who strongly believe that the State's medical system needs support. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT.

We intend to augment the capacity of the state by donating medical equipment & other necessary medical consumables to hospitals so that they can increase beds and provide specialized treatment to take care of complicated COVID cases. 

The funds you will contribute will go towards increasing capacities of existing hospitals that have manpower and intent but lack infrastructure.

Our motto is to provide AFFORDABLE COVID CARE and are partnering with hospitals with the same mission. These hospitals work on a NOT for PROFIT basis.

Our first beneficiary is  Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan which is the largest non Govt hospital in West Bengal operating 684 beds in their hospital. They urgently require 5 High Flow Nasal Oxygen Systems which are each worth INR 2.8 lakhs (USD 4000 approx) and total cost of 14 lakhs or 20,000 USD.

We urge you to contribute to this initiative and help us in rapidly increasing capacities of existing hospitals in battling COVID!

We will be assuring regular updates & utmost transparency for every penny contributed. There is absolutely no admin charges or anything else. Each penny will go towards fulfilling needs at required hospitals.

About Us:

We are a group of individuals across various fields & age which are united by a mission to help our state during this pandemic. This group has previously worked in relief efforts during Aila Cyclone.

Aakash Shah graduated from ISB in 2006. He currently is the president of Merchants' Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He has previously worked in US and now is CEO for Nipha Farm Solutions, a agri machinery manufacturer.

Jeetu Rampuria, MBA. Finance Professional associated with Magma Group as Vice President. Associated with various social organisations in pursue of passion to serve the society. A dedicated Xaverian, alumni of St Xaviers College, Kolkata.

Naman Shah is CEO & Co-Founder of NowPurchase (a B2B procurement startup).He did his undergrad at NUS, Singapore & spent a year at UPenn on an engineering entrepreneurship program.

Naresh Gupta is a B.Com from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
Secretary of World Jesuit Alumni Union. Business - Trading in Iron and Steel and Stock Broker.

Neiraj Kajaria is Director, Sangkaj Group,. Co involved in 3PL & warehousing for most leading pharma companies in West Bengal. Alumni of St Xaviers College, Kolkata.

Rakesh Shah is a Director at Nipha Group, a 60 year old engineering manufacturer & export. He is also an alumni of St Xaviers College, Kolkata. He has served in leadership positions of various organizations like FICCI, Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Engineering Export Promotion Council.

Swati Gautam : Entrepreneur, Columnist, Masters in Broadcasting, University of Sheffield, UK. Owes her reaching-out-streak to St. Xavier's College, Calcutta.

Snigdha Shah is General Manager, SVP Kolkata- a novel model that focuses on giving, volunteering and building capacity to increase social impact, MCCI MLF Chairperson; Member BCCI CSR Committee. She is an MBA in Finance.

Vikas Khosla, B.Com, LLB, PGDBM. School & College- St. Xavier’s Kolkata. Business - Agriculture Machineries, Women Hygiene & Ozone Generators.

Vikhyat Khosla, BTech from Jadavpur university, schooling from St. James’ School. Software engineer in Microsoft


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