Dr. M. Banupriya

Founder (Our Founder page)

Dr. M. Banupriya is the founder (our founder page) of Kalpavriksham Trust [1], an Indian non-profit working on palliative & cancer care and healthcare from Chennai.

Kalpavriksham Trust

Kalpavriksham Trust was founded in 2011 by Dr M. Banupriya, then a third-year MBBS student, after a hostel fundraising drive she started for a destitute family's cardiac-patient toddler in Thoothukudi. Now led by the Chennai oncologist, the trust runs free medical camps and cancer screening across Tamil Nadu and publishes plain-language material on cancer detection and treatment.

Kalpavriksham Trust reports the following, on its own site: