Dr. M. Banupriya
Founder (Our Founder page)Founder of Kalpavriksham Trust
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:
- Our Scorecard: 60641 Overall Beneficiaries
- 3808 Total Mammogram & Pap Smear
- 951 Total iBreastExam
- 640 Total HPV Vaccine
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Chennai
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References
- [1] “Our Founder Dr. M. Banupriya MBBS, MD(RT), FIAMS, CCEPC(PalliativeCare), Senior Consultant Radiation Oncologist” — Kalpavriksham Trust. Source
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