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Sheela Chitnis is the founder of Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI) (1985)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and disability from Mumbai.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI)
Multiple Sclerosis Society of India is a Mumbai-based nonprofit founded in 1985, affiliated with the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation. It runs nine chapters across India providing advocacy, patient services and awareness programmes so that roughly 3,500 registered members affected by MS can continue to live full lives.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI) reports the following, on its own site:
- 3,500 MS people in our chapters
- 9 MS chapters in India
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
- 1985
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Our founder members Mrs. Rehmut S. Fazalbhoy and Mr. A. H.Tobaccowala, former Chairman, Voltas India, Mr. K. N.Randeria, Mrs. Sheela Chitnis, Mr. A.J. Joglekar and Major Sharan gathered together with a view to promote the welfare of Multiple Sclerosis persons in India.” — Multiple Sclerosis Society of India (MSSI). Source
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