American Tamil Medical Association

                                        An appeal to help the Poor  Patients suffering from Mucormycosis


Dear Friends,
 
Mucormycosis (black fungus) is creating havoc in India.

       



India has recorded more than  40,000 cases of Mucormycosis (black fungus).
https://www.livemint.com/news/india-records-over-40k-cases-of-mucormycosis-11624875874985.html 

The treatment of rhinocerebral mucormycosis is surgery and medications.
Without medications, surgery is useless, and the mortality is 100%
Liposomal Amphotericin B  and Pozaconazole tablets are the medications used to treat Mucormycosis.

Usually, patients are treated with Liposomal Amphotericin for at least one week and, after that, may be discharged home on Posaconazole tablets.
Each person affected by mucormycosis needs approximately 40 vials of Amphotericin B for 1-week treatment.
People affected by the black fungus in India are dying due to a lack of Liposomal Amphotericin B and Posaconazole tablets.
Many poor patients and their families are also financially devastated as they cannot afford the medicines.

American Tamil Medical Association (ATMAUSA) is working very hard to donate medications to poor patients in India.

American Tamil Medical Association has already spent $50,000 to treat Mucormycosis in India.






Our appeal to you is to contribute to the American Tamil Medical Association (ATMA), a registered 501 (C)(3) IRS tax-exempt charitable organization that will personally oversee this activity. We will use one hundred percent of the collected funds to procure medications to treat Mucormycosis. This initiative from all of us today will go a long way in preventing an untold number of premature deaths due to MUCORMYCOSIS  in the coming months.

Thank you very much !!!

Update as of 5/17/2021: 

The task team has successfully procured (from donations) and sent 36 oxygen concentrators this week, along with STAANA (Stanley Medical College Alumni Association) to Chennai to distribute to the needy in all over Tamil Nadu. Our work does not stop here, there are still 400,000 new cases every day and more than 2500 deaths daily. Your generous contribution will help us procure more oxygen concentrators, oximeters and other needed supplies to send to hospitals in need, hence we are increasing our goal to $30,000.

COVID CRISIS  INDIA 2021

" It has been a year since we started the COVID 19 Tamil Task Team (in association with ATMA). We worked extremely hard to help the Covid crisis in the USA.

As COVID-19 crisis continues to loom over us, India has become the terrifying new epicenter of Covid-19 pandemic with cases topping 300K and 2500+ deaths daily.

Nations around the world are pitching in to help India deal with the latest wave, we would like to do our part as well.
ALMOST a year to the date that we at COVID 19 Tamil Task Team set up our Go Fundme page to provide relief to the mammoth humanitarian crisis that unfolded when the pandemic first began, we are reopening this page to raise funds for the most pressing needs caused by the current situation in India.
Your help is much appreciated and urgently needed, please donate and support the cause. "

Helping and supporting each other through these unprecedented times is the only way to fight COVID-19 together.

The American Tamil Medical Association (ATMA) – a registered 501(c)(3) organization has created a COVID-19 Tamil task team comprising  volunteer physicians from ATMA and non-medical volunteers who have joined hands in fighting this crisis.

ATMA NJ/NY is looking to raise funds to help COVID-19 patients and their families. This relief fund will be used to provide the following services: 
- Provide PPE (personal protective equipment) and other supplies to volunteers, health care workers, environmental, community workers and families in need

- Help deliver medications, food, groceries and other essential supplies  to family members suffering from COVID-19 (on quarantine or isolation) including the elderly and estranged family members of patients

- Provide free packaged food for families in need

- Provide psychological, emotional, nutritional and advisory support to the children of infected parents who have been hospitalized

- Communicate and collaborate with family members in India and help recovering patients rehabilitate and restart their routine life

- Help family members in India to claim the remains of deceased patients and arrange for the deceased patient’s savings to be legally available for the
benefit of their family

- Provide medical support to students and the elderly who have been stranded here as they cannot travel back to India

- Collaborate  with the Consulate General of India  (New York) and other governmental organizations to provide any other help needed

The ATMA team makes a humble request to donate as much as you can to help get through this difficult time together.  Even a small donation can make huge difference and help save someone’s life.

Let’s tackle COVID-19 together!

Thank you in advance for your contribution.