Thekkayil Rajaratnam Vydiar
Founder (founded the Nursing Home)Founder of Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Trust
Thekkayil Rajaratnam Vydiar is the founder (founded the nursing home) of Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Trust (1974)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Kozhikode.
Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Trust
The Thekkayil family's Ayurvedic nursing home in Kozhikode carries a long tradition of treating the poor without charge: check-ups are free, Fridays are set aside for financially weak patients, and treatment costs are waived for those below the poverty line. The trust extends this care to rural patients regardless of caste or creed.
Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Trust reports the following, on its own site:
- Back Pain — We have cured more than 37000 cases in the past 10 years
- Hair fall — We have cured more than 24000 cases in the past 10 years
- Cervical spondylosis — We have cured more than 17000 cases in the past 10 years
- Rheumatoid arthritis — We have cured more than 12000 cases in the past 10 years
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Kozhikode
- Founded
- 1974
- Press
- 0
References
- [1] “The present Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Nursing home in Calicut was founded in the year 1974 by Thekkayil Rajaratnam Vydiar, who was honored with the award of Bhishak Ratna by the Corporation of Calicut in 2009 for his prominence in Ayurveda.” — Sree Subramania Ayurvedic Trust. Source
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