Make A Donation

Why Donate?

One hundred percent of the money you donate to either of our trusts in the UK or the USA comes directly to the Institute for Rural Health Studies. The trustees receive no payment for their work. Even the chartered accountant who audits the UK trust is a volunteer, and so is the legal professional who oversees the trust in the USA.

Money that you donate can go further than you think. IRHS uses modern management tools to be cost-effective. On three occasions IRHS has hosted financial and management consultants from the UK and Germany (2-4 months each), who have ensured that IRHS uses modern systems to make us cost-effective.

Our patient counsellors have expert knowedge of both the correct policies and procedures to be followed in the 14 hospitals used by IRHS, thus ensuring that any money going towards a patient's care is used properly.

While the majority of IRHS patients go to government hospitals, a significant number of outstanding private hospitals offer IRHS patients free services (hospitalisation, tests and out-patient fees).

See for yourself just how far a donation will go:

  • £3.60 / $5.50 (250 rupees) = the cost of screening a woman for cervical cancer (including a biopsy)

  • £20 / $30 (1400 rupees) = a village health worker's monthly salary

  • £70 / $105 (4800 rupees) = the monthly cost of our school health education programme in 6 villages

  • £72 / $109 (5000 rupees) = a paramedic's monthly salary

  • £74 / $112 (5170 rupees) = the cost of treating a teenager with rheumatoid arthritis for 1 year

  • £91 / $138 (6380 rupees) = the cost of treating a child with a cardiac condition for 1 year

  • £122 / $186 (8580 rupees) = the cost of life-saving cardiac surgery for a child

  • £142 / $216 (9940 rupees) = the cost of treating a teenager with epilepsy for 1 year

These amounts include all the necessary medicines, the busfare for both the patient and their family from the village to Hyderabad and back, their food during their time in Hyderabad and any consultation fees at the hospital.

How To Donate

It's easy to make a donation to the IRHS. Either donate directly to the IRHS in India or through one of our charitable trusts in the United States and the United Kingdom. Or you can just use the Paypal link below.

 

India:

Institute for Rural Health Studies
(tax exempt under section 80-G, IT Act)
PO Box 50, Banjara Hills,
Hyderabad 500 034

Email: pdb7@cam.ac.uk and copy to pdbidinger@yahoo.com

UK:

Indian Rural Health Trust (UK charity 1101136)
c/o Mr Mike Thilo, Treasurer,
17 Beech Avenue, Great Stukeley,
Huntingdon,
PE28 3AX, UK

Email: mike@thilo.org.uk

USA:

Rural Health Studies Trust (RHST) (IRS 501(c)(3))
c/o Mr Peter Shack or Dr Kathryn Shack, Trustees
27413 Meadowbrook Avenue,
Davis, California 95618-5051

Email: pks32@columbia.edu