Rtn P.D.G P.T Kasturi
Founder ChairmanFounder of Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST)
Rtn P.D.G P.T Kasturi is the founder chairman of Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST) (1984)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Bengaluru.
Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST)
Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST) is a public charitable trust (Regn. No. 784/1983-84) established in February 1984 by the Rotary Club of Bangalore and TTK & Company. It has grown into a regional centre of excellence for blood banking and transfusion, immunohematology, tissue banking, and solid-organ and stem-cell transplantation, alongside training, research and community health education. BMST operates a large Blood Component facility and Regional Blood Transfusion Centre serving hospitals and patients across Bengaluru and surrounding districts. Its stem-cell registry work, run with DKMS, was spun off in 2019 into a separate entity, DKMS-BMST Foundation India.
Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST) reports the following, on its own site:
- 44,620 patients benefited from free and subsidized blood/component issues in 2022-23
- 1,279 patients benefited from HLA Lab transplant-immunology testing in 2022-23 (3,199 tests done)
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Bengaluru
- Founded
- 1984
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Notable among them were Rtn P.D.G P.T Kasturi, founder Chairman and the visionary who initiated this project” — Bangalore Medical Services Trust (BMST). Source
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