About us

MISSION

The Balaji Medical and Educational Trust, having gone through an existence of 12+ years, has realized that helping patients who are already been affected by renal diseases covers only a small segment of the problem. 

The major issue which need to be focused is how to prevent the onset of renal problems. The only answer is to  provide mass education and awareness across the length and breath of the country by educating  people as to what is the root cause of  renal problems. The answer to this is simple i.e uncontrolled / unmanaged Diabetes and Blood Pressure. As per WHO estimates, India is  world capital for Diabetes and this will continue to increase .Hypertension is also spread to a similar extent. These two problems alone will create an enormous number of people having renal problems. Therefore, the trust is going to concentrate on preventive measures i.e Early Disease Programme. 

To this effect, the trust has launched the Early Disease Programme (EDP) on 15th March 2009 on the occasion of celebration of 12th anniversary of Balaji Medical and Educational Trust. All available mass media would be made use to disseminate this message for various diseases to cover widest population groups.  The media includes TV, Internet, Cinema , Radio , Banners , Pamphlet, Newspaper , Print media etc. Early Disease Programme  includes detection, intervention and monitoring. It has now been decided to broaden the activities to other specialties. 

Healthcare of the community will be the primary aim. Therefore the trust has been restructured and renamed as SAPIENS HEALTH FOUNDATION.

SERVICES

The aim of the foundation is to make people aware of various preventive measure of kidney diseases, kidney functions, kidney failure, symptoms of kidney disease and what are the various treatments / alternatives.

After education for the kidney disease has been spread wide enough, the trust will under take education of other diseases on a graduated basis. 

The foundation does this in the following ways:

• Issues of various Medical educational materials on Kidney and other diseases and its treatment / alternatives.
• Through Internet / Online medium
• Through Print / Visual / Audio Media / Cinema
• Awareness Camps
• Screening for renal disease by distribution of home test urine albumin kits.

TRUSTEES & ADVISORY BOARD

Trustees	Advisory Board
Dr.Rajan Ravichandran MD,MNAMS,FRCP(EDIN),FACP(USA) Nephrologist Chairman, 7/23, IIIrd Main Road, Kottur Gardens, Chennai-600085	1              Mr. P. Jayendra 2              Mr. C. Subba Reddy 3              Mr. A.E. Niranjan 4              Mr. Crazy Mohan 5              Mr. K. Jayaramakrishnan 6              Mr. Rahul Balaji 7              Mr. V. Swaminathan 8              Mr. K. Kalyanasundaram 9              Mr. P.S. Lakshman 10           Mrs. Mala Jhunjunwala
Mrs.Lalitha Ravichandran Trustee 7/23, IIIrd Main Road, Kottur Gardens, Chennai-600085
Mr. R.Sundar Trustee No.2, 8th Lane, Indira Nagar, Adyar, Chennai - 600020.