ONGC to support cancer-affected children at Mumbai

With the inking of three CSR agreements on 27 January 2020, ONGC has entered into contracts for aiding cancer affected children who are to be treated at Tata Memorial Center (TMC) in Mumbai, so that their diagnosis, treatment and post treatment care can be aided to a certain extent at the least.

The three projects were signed by ED- SM- Regional Office Mumbai Mr R K Sharma and Director of Department of Paediatric Oncology Dr Shripad D Banavali of the TMC, with the engagement of their social organization, ImpaCCT Foundation. The ImpaCCT foundation has been associated with TMC since 2010 and is engaged solely in the area of arranging funds for treatment of children with cancer.

The first of the agreements encompasses diagnosis of cancer in 100 children, amounting to a total of Rs Twenty Lakhs with a limit of Rs 20, 000/- per child, for such children whose families are unable to afford even the diagnostic tests.

The second project arranges for actual treatment of the disease including medicines, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Under the proposed project, paediatric palliative care is appropriately considered as a core component of comprehensive care when illness is diagnosed. Palliative care relieves symptoms caused by cancer and improves the quality of life of patients. Not all children with cancer can be cured (nearly eighty per cent can be cured), but relief from suffering is possible for everyone. Here ONGC has undertaken to fund to the tune of an additional twenty lakhs with an estimate of Rs 2,00,000/- (Rupees Two lakhs) per person.