WELCOME TO CHIRANJEEVI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
The idea of establishing The Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation, had taken roots many years ago, when one fine day Chiranjeevi, the popular film star from Andhra pradesh, reflected on the fame and glory that the Telugu audiences across AP bestowed upon him.
Chiranjeevi was keen to repay the society for the unlimited love and affection being showered on him by the millions of people across A.P .He felt that the energy and enthusiasm of those millions had to be channelized into something more meaningful for the welfare of the society.
Chiranjeevi sought expert study to identify areas where extensive public participation can help build a healthy society.
There were thousands of poor and needy people who were suffering because of inadequate infrastructure that facilitated safe and screened blood supply. While thousands were suffering on account of being visually impaired. The study also revealed that there were many misconceptions and pre conceived notions about blood and eye donations. The experts opined that a person of Chiranjeevi's stature and caliber can bring about a significant change in the situation for the better, by his active participation.
Thus 'The Chiranjeevi Blood Bank' was started in the month of October 1998 with an aim to provide safe and screened blood, free of cost to the poor and needy.
May 20th '2007: Voluntary blood donors participated in blood donation camp at JVN Gardens, Medak Dist.
April 4th '2007: "NENU SAITHAM" programme organized by RIGHT EYE
Oct 28th '2006: Andhra University Announced Honorary Doctorate to Chiranjeevi
May 7th '2006: 100-Day Awareness Campaign Gets Going With Radio Mirchi
March 30th '2006: Chiranjeevi awarded Padmabhushan
28th Mar’2004: Blood donation camp organized at Pragnapur-Medak District.
25th Mar’2004: Blood donation camp conducted at Promac Educational Academy, Tarnaka,Secunderbad
21st Mar’2004: Blood donation camp organized at Arya Yuvajana Sangham –Tirumalagiri,Secunderbad
10th Mar’2004:Blood donation camp conducted at Zinnaram Medak district today.
On the 18th March'2004State Election commissioner's Driver Mr.M.A.Hakeem received 2 units of AB+ve blood during an emergency heart surgery .
Mr.Rammurthy Raju receives O-ve blood for the successful conduct of his heart surgery at CARE Banjara Hospital on 16th March'2004.
14th March'2004: Blood donation camp organized at the ZPH School -Surya Pet, Nalgonda District.
10-03-04: Blood donation camp organized by the Chiranjeevi yuvatha fans' association at Government Hospital Jinnaram
7-03-04: A blood donation camp was conducted at the MDO's Office at Hayath Nagar,R.R.Dist,
29th Feb'2004: Blood donation camp inaugurated by Sri.Nagendra babu at Isnapur -Medak Dist.
CCF provided 13 units of blood to as many Thalessemia children in the month of February '2004
26-02-04: Mr.Gopal Krishna Murthy of Kakinada underwent a heart surgery on 27th February '2004 at Care Hospital-Nampally
15th Feb’2004: The official web site of Chiranjeevi Charitable Foundation was formally launched by
Sri.Mohan Kanda IAS -Honorable Chief Secretary -Govt.of A.P at the Jubilee hall-Public gardens, Hyderabad.
8th Feb’2004: Blood donation camp conducted at Zaheerabad today
8th Feb’2004: Chiranjeevi Youth has conducted a free Dental Camp toady at Chittavaram
1st Feb'2004: Renowned Film Director & Actor K.Viswanath inaugurated ablood donation camp
26-01-04: Mega Power Youth Association conducted a camp at Bharat Nagar Colony, Hyderabad.
18-01-04:A blood donation camp was organized by the Telugu Yuvatha in association with CCT at the NTR Foundation Bhavan.
12-01-04: Blood donation camp at Chacha Nehru Nagar, Boiaguda, Secunderabad.
09-01-04: A blood donation camp was conducted by Vivekananda Mahavidhyalaya.
3rd Jan’2004:Film Star Venkat Donated blood at the Chiranjeevi Blood Bank today.
3rd Jan'2004:A physically challenged person K.Raju from Venkatagiri donated blood today.
1st Jan’2004:On the New years day several people including Chiranjeevi fans stood in queue to donate blood
29th Dec’2003:CCT has provided 506 units of screened blood to the Indian red Cross Society Blood Bank Hyderabad
29th Dec’2003: CCF Blood Donor’s Club-Vijayawada, Has conducted a blood donation camp at Jaggaiahpet
28th Dec’2003: The Rangareddy District Chiranjeevi yuvatha, Kapra has today organized the 4th Mega Blood Donation camp at the premises of Radhika theatre Kapra
24th Dec’2003 Chiarnjeevi Charitable Foundation in association with S.M.R. Group of Companies has conducted a blood donation camp
12th Dec'2003:CCF today provided 3 units of AB +ve group blood to Mrs. Vijay Laxmi
7th December: "Youth Should Lead the way in serving the socieety"
1st Dec’2003: Best Voluntary Blood Bank award conferred on CCT.
29th Nov’2003: Book On AIDS dedicated to Chiranjeevi.
17th Nov'2003:Blood donation camp conducted in Yusufguda.
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The Chiranjeevi Blood Bank
MISSION:
In an age where medicine has advanced greatly, blood still remains a scarce life support, highly inaccessible. Added to which is the lurking danger of infected blood seeping into the system due to inadequate facilities and lack of awareness.
At CCT our endeavor is to provide safe and screened blood to every single person in need of it. In years to come CCT envisages to eradicate deaths due to lack of adequate and safe blood supply in A.P and in India .
POLICY:
Chiranjeevi blood bank is perhaps the only blood bank in the state,where replacement of blood is not at all necessasry.
CCT provides blood absolutely free of cost to the needy and underprivileged. Besides CCT also incurs the costs of blood screening which is about Rs.750/- per unit .In case of economically backward and lower income group people CCT absorbs these screening costs completely. Persons who are white card holders or belong to the family of white card holders and or availing treatment at Government Hospitals are eligible for claiming exemption of screening costs.
CCT provides a subsidy of 50% to those availing treatment at private nursing homes.
In case of higher income groups, and those availing treatment at Corporate Hospitals, CCT still provides blood free of cost but the screening costs have to be borne by them.
The Blood bank has provided 3000 donors directly to the Hospitals like NIMS, CARE, APOLLO, USHA MULLA PUDI in cases of emergency that required fresh blood.
The Trust has established five voluntary blood donor clubs in Vishakahapatnam, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, Kakinada, and Hyderabad and intends to meet a target of setting up 50 such clubs to substantially increase the number of blood donations.
A state of the art Components Preparation Unit to accommodate the recent developments in Blood Transfusion will also be added along with measures to upgrade the rest of the equipment Online registration
Chiranjeevi Voluntary Blood Donor's Clubs
1. South House no: 4-2-16,
4th Lane, Laxmapuram,Guntur-522 007.
P.h.No: (0863) 2350069,2359181,2234005.
2 . C/o Geetha Film Distributers
6-4-6, Peddada vai veedi,T. Nagar
Rajahmundry-533 101.
P.h.No: (0883) 2444121, 2442522,2 474830
3. Main Road, Laxmi Complex, Opp. Shesh mahal complex ,
Gajuwaka, Vishakapatnam- 26
P.h.No: (0891) 2589352, 2514055, 2754787.
4. C/o Dr. G.Samaram, Vastayan Nusing Home, Benzi Circle.
Vijayawada-10, P.h.No: 2472370, 2472330, 2572211, 2572795, 2575401
THE CHIRANJEEVI EYE BANK
VISION To provide sight to visually impaired through collection and distribution of corneas from volunteer eye donations.MISSIONTo educate people about the importance of eye donation.To register and maintain a database of eye donors,To recover corneas posthumously from registered donors, and To distribute the corneas to the needy people. The Chiranjeevi Eye Bank was started in the year 1998 to fulfill the service vision of its founder, the well known Telugu film star Mr. Chiranjeevi.The first ever appeal for eye donation to the public through media by Chiranjeevi resulted in an overwhelmingly spectacular response of over fifty thousand people pledging their eyes for posthumous use to provide vision to the visually impaired.
The Trust through the intensive efforts of the Eye bank has collected 775 pairs of eyes from the deceased donors who had pledged their eyes and provided vision to 1550 people who were visually impaired.
The Trust wishes to appoint counselors in each district to create awareness about eye donation and encourage the immediate family members of those donors who pledge their eyes to extend their cooperation to collect the eyes on the demise of such donors.
The Eye Bank along with the Blood bank is administered by the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust, located at Punjagutta, Hyderabad . Dr. KASU PRASAD REDDY MBBS ; MS; DO;MRCOpth (UK)Dr. Kasu Prasad Reddy, a well-accomplished ophthalmologist has been the Director of the Chiranjeevi Eye Bank, since its inception. Dr. Reddy completed his MBBS from Gunter Medical College, MS from Stanley Medical College, Chennai, and left to England in 1978. He took his Diploma in Ophthalmology from Dublin, Ireland and his Membership from England. He is a pioneer in Refractive surgery with fellowship training from Chicago, USA and Manheim, Germany. Dr. Kasu Prasad Reddy has conducted thousands of laser surgical procedures and introduced his first Lasik procedure in India at Maxivision Eye Hospital in 1996. He is the 1st person to introduce Phakic IOL for those not suitable for Lasik in India. He has also conducted thousands of cataract operations and eye donation graft procedures.Dr. Kasu Prasad Reddy is also a qualified pilot. He is instrumental in making Maxivision Eye Hospital’s services available not only in Hyderabad but also in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam as well. The Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust is proud to have an outstanding Ophthalmologist like Dr. Kasu Prasad Reddy as the Director of the Chiranjeevi Eye Bank.
