Elevated Metro Stations Are Getting Ready

The Chennai Metro Rail project is an upcoming rapid transit system in the city. Construction work for a new roof is in progress at the elevated Koyambedu Metro train station in CMBT premises. 

Koyambedu Metro station which is currently under construction is one among the elevated stations coming up along corridor II of the Chennai Metro project between St. Thomas Mount and Koyambedu Vegetable Market. Construction work for all the elevated metro train stations along 100 Feet Road between Koyambedu-Alandur stretch of Corridor 2 is fast progressing. 

Elevated stations building infrastructure are getting ready will come up at Koyambedu, Arumbakkam, Vadapalani and Ashok Nagar.

Helping Underprivileged Kidney Patients

Almost 2.5 lakh people die of kidney failure in India every year. It is the third largest killer after malignancy and heart disease. 

Millions suffer from some form of kidney disease and many of them, particularly in India cannot afford the cost of treatment or care.

TANKER (Tamilnadu Kidney Research) Foundation is a registered non-profit charitable organisation started in June 1993 with the aim of helping under-privileged patients with kidney disease by giving subsidised dialysis and one time financial help for medication, investigation and transplantation and spread awareness about kidney disease. TANKER cares for those, the underprivileged, who suffer kidney problems of any kind, reversible or terminal, regardless of caste, creed, sex or religion.

Sai T.P. Karunanandan Trust is a charitable organisation for the benefit of the downtrodden and needy. Sai T.P Karunanandan Trust donated one Dialysis Machine for our needy patients on Wednesday25th September 2013

The Machine was inaugurated by Mrs. Lakshmi Anandan, Founder of Sai T.P. Karunanandan Trust. The cost of 1 dialysis machine is Rs. 6 Lakhs.Dr.Georgi Abraham ,Founder Trustee of TANKER welcomed everybody and said that dialysis was the need of the hour all over the country and that TANKER would also help in setting up subsidized dialysis units in other parts of the country. 

Mrs.Latha Lumaraswami,Managing Trustee of TANKER gave an update of TANKER's activities stating that TANKER had so far done over 1.25 lakhs dialyses and given donations of over Rs.87 Lakhs for the needy with kidney disease.

500 Awareness programmes reaching out to over 90000 people and 40 screening camps for 4000 people had been conducted by their Awareness Head Mrs.Rajalakshmi Ravi and her team. For details about Tanker Foundation call 43090998, 28273407 or visit www.tankerfoundation.org.