‘Sri Venkateswara Appanna Hrudaya Scheme’

‘Sri Venkateswara Appanna Hrudaya Scheme’

 The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has launched ‘Sri Venkateswara Appanna Hrudaya Scheme’ at its Padmavati Children Heart Centre in Tirupati, 

with an intention to

accept donations that shall support the cost of consumables such as medicines, oxygenators, surgical material and implants needed for cardiac surgery performed on newborns.

The TTD has fixed

the donation amount for each cardiac surgery or intervention at ₹1 lakh. 

In an attempt to encourage 

\the donors, it has decided to display the name of philanthropists  परोपकारियों, समाज-सेवी, जन-हितैषी at the hospital.

 paediatric hospital in May 2020

Considering the growing cases of children born with congenial heart defects, the TTD resolved to set up an exclusive paediatric hospital in May 2020. 

The fact that eight to 12 children in every 1,000 live births are born with heart ailments बीमारियों and 

one third of them need lifesaving interventions during their first year of birth motivated it to set up the hospital.

At present, the hospital has 

• 70 beds, 
• 40 ICU care beds, 
• three laminar flow operation theatres, 
• catheterization lab and 
• advanced diagnostic equipment to treat the children with heart ailments, besides the required infrastructure to perform surgeries and other lifesaving interventions.

Initially, it had asked 

the philanthropists who came forward to donate ₹1 crore or above. 

However, the trust board, of late, is flooded with requests from people across the sections of the society to provide them an opportunity to be a part of the noble cause, officials say.

To promote the scheme, the TTD has decided to extend benefits such as one-time break darshan to the donor’s family members not exceeding five persons excluding ticket charges and permit the donor firms to sponsor equivalent number of persons in break darshan.