HealthCare
We believe that we don't do anybody any favours. So when we reach out to communities to support them, we do this not out of pity or condescension, but as something that gives us equal joy. We are the real beneficiaries of our work. Reason why we look for collaborations. It is our way of sharing the joy and blessings we receive. This is more than evident in our healthcare initiatives, where we work with some generous and humble doctors, researchers, academicians, administrators and organisations from across the world. Each of them giving of themselves, with big slices of their hearts.
Healing Little Hearts Health Camps
2024
Since 2014, Mukul Madhav Foundation has supported the Healing Little Hearts programme, which conducts paediatric cardiac surgeries to help children with life-threatening heart conditions. The initiative began with a project led by Dr. Sanjeev Nichani in Pune, where four paediatric heart surgery camps were held, providing life-saving surgeries. Since then, we have continued to support these efforts, ensuring that children in need receive the specialised care they deserve.
Over the years, this support has extended to India and international locations, helping organise paediatric cardiac camps in collaboration with Healing Little Hearts. These camps offer surgeries, training, and medical expertise to local hospitals. It ensures wholesome, sustainable care at various hospitals in India. This includes Ruby Hall in Pune, Maharashtra, Sky Hospital in Imphal, Manipur, Andhara Hospital in Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh, Sri Sathya Sai Hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka and many others.
Mukul Madhav Foundation’s ongoing commitment to Healing Little Hearts ensures that children across India and beyond can access life-saving cardiac care. A recent camp was conducted in October 2024.
Support to London Clinic
2024
Mukul Madhav Foundation provided support to the London Clinic's community outreach programme. Between August and November 2024, we helped with eight pop-up health events. These events focused on cancer education, diagnostics, and survivorship, targeting underserved communities, including BME groups, refugees, and those facing addiction or homelessness. Services included free GP appointments, mammograms, PSA testing, and transport for follow-up care. The London Clinic, in partnership with the Crisis Rescue Foundation, plans to hold 12 such events annually, reaching over 1,000 people.
Working with the Teenage Cancer Trust
2024
Support was given to the Teenage Cancer Trust in honour of Priya Sawhney's charity walk in memory of Amreen Sawhney. The Trust is committed to improving the quality of life and survival rates for young cancer patients aged 13-24 by funding specialist units in NHS hospitals and providing dedicated staff. Their work ensures young people receive expert care in an environment personalised to their needs.
Street Talk
2023
Street Talk was founded in 2005 by an NHS therapist who had become troubled by the inequalities within the provision of mental health care. Street Talk provides mental health counselling services to trafficked women in a secure London hostel. Currently, they care for women from India, Pakistan, Albania, Nigeria, and Vietnam, providing art therapy and psychotherapy.
In 2023, MMF UK’s donation helped a trafficked victim receive critical mental health support from a trained psychotherapist.
Support to the British Heart Foundation
2022
The British Heart Foundation is a charity that offers information and support for heart-related issues across the UK. We offered support to BHF for their projects and campaigns that work towards the prevention of sudden cardiac deaths, stopping heart attacks and strokes, and curing heart failure.
Support for vital nursing care at Thames Hospice
2022
Mukul Madhav Foundation UK helped fund vital nursing care for Thames Hospice patients in their own homes this Christmas so that they could stay at home with their families.
It means so much to the nurses at Thames Hospice to be able to support patients with the care they need, avoiding unnecessary hospital visits and admissions during the holiday season.
Support to Diabetes UK
2024
Mukul Madhav Foundation provided crucial financial support to Diabetes UK's helpline, enabling them to manage and respond to over 30,000 phone calls. Together, we contributed to the well-being of thousands of individuals affected by diabetes across the UK.
2022
Diabetes UK, the UK’s leading diabetes charity, focuses on supporting patients and their families, and also funds research into the cure of principally, Type 2 Diabetes. Their support services include a 24/7 telephone helpline and an online website that provides information and advice.
They employ 400 people and are supported by over 2,000 volunteers. Their annual income is £37.8 million (£30 million raised from donations and legacies) and their expenditure this year has been £37.7 million. Mukul Madhav Foundation has shared funds with them to support diabetes patients.
Healing Little Hearts Health Camps
2022
Dr Sanjeev Nichani, Founder of the Healing Little Hearts organisation, spearheaded a project in Pune in 2014, which consisted of four paediatric heart surgery camps benefiting 107 ailing children. A team of intensivists (critical care physicians) and paediatric medical professionals visited the city of Pune and provided their medical expertise to the children, under Dr Nichani's guidance.
MMF is truly thankful to the team as each of these 107 children now has the opportunity to experience childhood the way they were meant to.
Uplifting children’s lives through medical camps
In continuation with these efforts by the Healing Little Hearts organisation, another camp was conducted at Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Andhra Hospital, Vijayawada, is the Heart Centre that Healing Little Hearts established in December 2015 and is now quite self-sufficient, apart from the very complex cases. To solve these difficult cases, the Healing Little Hearts organisation visits them a few times every year.
In 2022, the organisation provided travel support to Dr Deborah Peg from Brisbane, Australia. Twenty (20) children were successfully operated upon during the week-long camp held from October 29th, 2022. The medical team comprised doctors and nurses from Queensland Children's Hospital Brisbane and Brompton Hospital, London.
This was followed by another week-long camp at the Sanador Hospital in Bucharest, Romania from November 19th, 2022, by Dr Reinhard Stevenson. The Sanador Hospital is keen to learn to operate on children and had more than adequate facilities to perform these surgeries. So, eight children underwent successful operations and are doing well. Due to the success of this camp, another one is slated for the end of January 2023.
Supporting the Genome Research Project with Royal Free Charity and Royal Free Hospital
2021
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide – but to date, research has focused predominantly on data from patients of European heritage. Since this data informs treatment, innovations in care have been inevitably Eurocentric in focus, failing to consider the unique risk factors, and the way breast cancer presents itself in women from different ethnic groups. To make the research more inclusive, in November 2021, MMF partnered with Royal Free Hospital, University College London, and Royal Free Charity, to collect and analyse 1000 genome samples, and increase the representation of women of Southeast Asian ancestry in international research. This project could lead to more effective treatments for cancer and other rare conditions.
We are happy and delighted to mention that UCL has acknowledged MMF for it support for a world class breast cancer research, please click here
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Children from Imphal and Pune received medical aid from Healing Little Hearts and MMF UK
2021
Healing Little Hearts is a UK-based children's charity supporting children in developing countries with Free heart surgery. Providing accessible healthcare and much-needed aid to the most marginalized and the most vulnerable is a common goal for both organizations, one that eventually led to a collaboration.
Mukul Madhav Foundation and Healing Little Hearts have worked together to give children from India much-needed medical assistance and support.
Our first health camp was set up in Pune in 2014; read more about it here. A second health camp at Imphal was set up in April 2021, and a third health camp in India is scheduled for September 2021. The health camp at Imphal is in collaboration with MMF UK to provide free heart surgeries for children suffering from congenital heart diseases.
The operations were conducted at the Sky Hospital and Research Centre, with a team of eleven medical professionals. Four diagnostic cath procedures and six surgeries were conducted for three boys and three girls from Manipur. MMF is truly grateful to the medical professionals for their volunteer efforts, especially as they took the effort and time to perform these procedures during the worldwide pandemic.
Paediatric cardiac care camp held in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
The collaboration between MMF and Healing Little Hearts continues, with a team of highly skilled medical professionals from the UK, including specialised paediatric cardiac surgeons, intensivists, and nurses, participating in health camps in India. In November 2021, a health camp was organised at the Andhra Hospital Heart and Brain Institute, Vijayawada, where 7 Healing Little Hearts’ volunteers worked along with local teams. A total of 30 children were operated on in 5 days. Of which, 27 were open heart surgeries, 2 closed heart surgeries and 1 catheter intervention operation.
Medical Equipment Support for North Middlesex University Hospital
2021
Being one of the busiest medical facilities in London, North Middlesex University Hospital provides acute care and community support to 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey, and beyond.
In February 2021, Mukul Madhav Foundation UK raised funds for the hospital to support the well being of the staff at the hospital.
Previous Projects with UK Partners
Neonatal Training for Pune Nurses in association with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
2018
Premature children need utmost care during the first weeks of their birth. But the facilities needed for such critical care often fall short. With this critical need in mind, the NICU unit at Sassoon General Hospital, at Pune, in India, was reinforced as a state-of-the-art facility fully equipped with 59 beds in 2018. The infrastructural upgrade helped in bringing down the infant mortality rate drastically.
In ongoing support towards this project, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust joined hands with Mukul Madhav Foundation to further enhance neonatal medical care in Pune, India. The team for this project was headed by Dr. Deepa Panjwani, a consultant neonatologist at NHS Trust and the hospital's lead for Nutrition.
Dr. Deepa Panjwani and her team trained NICU nurses at Sassoon General Hospital, Pune, and the trainee nurses at Symbiosis College of Nursing, Pune. The sessions covered diverse and critical matters such as ethical practices in the NICU, skincare, respiratory management, and nutrition management in neonates.
Extensive Healthcare Training for Cerebral Palsy with Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
2018
Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health works towards transforming child health with a three-pronged approach, knowledge, innovation, and expertise. Their vision is to create a healthier future for children across the world and is similar to the vision of Mukul Madhav Foundation.
Since 2015, MMF has been working to support children with Cerebral Palsy in the Satara region of Maharashtra, India. The on-going support includes medical training, seminars, supportive equipment, mental health support, and more.
In 2017, the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health helped MMF took this initiative a step further. The two organizations partnered to study the incidence, opportunities for prevention, therapeutic care, support for young people with CP and their families, and initiated community engagement in Pune and Satara.
Seminar and training sessions focused on the nutrition and physiotherapy required for children with CP, as well as the general challenges faced by them.
University College London (UCL) collaborated with MMF for its Mother and Child Project
2018
UCL's Dr. Monica Lakhanpaul assisted Mukul Madhav Foundation on a special Mother and Child project. Dr.Monica Lakhanpaul is a professor of integrated community child health at UCL. She advised MMF on projects for mothers, nutrition, and child health. She also assisted as a speaker at the speciality webinars by MMF.
Mental Health Training for Primary CareGivers and Healthcare Professionals with CFMH
Mukul Madhav Foundation looks at health holistically, including the community's mental, emotional and physical well-being. With this guiding principle in mind, MMF has been partnering with Concern For Mental Health (CFMH), a registered UK charity, since 2014 to transform the mental health care currently available in India.
The organization's founder and chairperson, Dr. Ghazala Afzal, brought onboard her expert team to Pune, India. With her in the lead, CFMH has been instrumental in mentoring, teaching, and conducting mental health sessions for psychologists, medical professionals, and other caregivers.
Five mental health programs have been conducted by MMF in collaboration with the CFMH team. In February-March of 2018, the same team also delivered a training program for primary school teachers and caregivers in the rural district of Satara in Maharashtra, India. With this collaboration, 120 professionals on average are trained monthly, and in total, 600 professionals have been trained. Read more about the team's experience and the training programme here.
Healing Little Hearts Health Camp at Pune, Maharashtra, India
2014
Headed by Dr. Sanjeev Nichani, Founder of the Healing Little Hearts organization, the project in Pune Maharashtra, consisted of four pediatric heart surgery camps benefiting 107 ailing children. A team of intensivists (critical care physicians) and pediatric medical professionals visited the city of Pune in India and provided their medical expertise to the children, under Dr. Nichani's guidance.
MMF is truly thankful to the team as each of these 107 kids, now, have the opportunity to experience childhood the way they were meant to.
Support to Cancer patient
2023
The Teenage Cancer Trust helps fund specialised nurses, youth workers and hospital units in the NHS, so that young people have dedicated staff and facilities to support them throughout their cancer treatment. Furthermore, the charity runs events for young people with cancer to help them regain independence and provides easy-to-understand information about living with cancer as a young person.
In 2022 and 2023, MMF UK donated funds to the Teenage Cancer Trust, supporting a walk to raise funds for the charity.
2021
Teenage Cancer Trust works towards helping teenagers and their families deal with cancer and its effects on the teenager's body, their mind, and their lives.
Specialist nurses and Youth Support Coordinators help young people with cancer deal with their worries together.
MMF UK donated £250 to support Ricky Priya and Simrit Sawhney with their forthcoming charity walk in memory of angel Amreen. The funds raised by the charity walk will be utilised equally by the Teenage Cancer Trust and Cancer Research UK.
