The Voluntary Health Services (VHS) - Registered Non-Profit Society,

The Voluntary Health Services (VHS), a registered non-profit society, was founded in July 1958, in Chennai (Madras), India, by the late Dr. K.S. Sanjivi, a renowned physician, a respected teacher and a visionary. Its basic concepts are the prevention and cure of serious illnesses, and the fostering of the family as a unit for medical care, with a family insurance scheme that is income-based. Among VHS's other objectives are community participation in its endeavours, medical education and medical research, and fieldwork in the organisation of medical care and health education

To Reach them Contact:

The Voluntary Health Services
Adyar, Chennai - 600 013
India.
Tel : +91 44 2254 1972 / 74/75, 2254 2971 / 73
Fax : +91 44 2254 1465
e-mail : vhsnsm@hotmail.com

VHS also offers specific options for donations:

1.Rs. 35,000 will pay for a single room with a bed. The donor's name will be on a plaque outside the room.

2.Treatment for all poor in-patients for one day in a year. The interest from a one-time endowment of Rs. 1.5 lakh can be used for this, while Rs. 9000 will take care of the drugs and disposables used in treating them (about 70 on an average, at Rs. 125 per patient) on any specific day.

3.Maintaining an in-patient costs the hospital Rs. 420 a day (medicines, nursing, food, overheads, etc.).
70 patients cost around Rs. 30,000. The one-time endowment for this will be Rs. 5 lakh.

4.Feeding the poor patients on a day in the year specified by you, paid for with the interest from a corpus fund for that purpose. A donation of Rs. 5000 (which will be added to the corpus) will entitle the donor to choose the specific day he/she wishes to feed the poor patients.
Most people use this method to remember death anniversaries. A special feeding for all the patients on a particular day will be Rs. 2500.
The donor's name, and the name of the person in whose honour these donations have been made, will go up on the notice board on that day.

You can also give money for equipment any other specific purpose.