Understanding the plight of the economically backward, Dr Palanivelu strives hard to make Laparoscopy available for all. This is done through:

GEM Digestive Diseases Foundation and Charitable Trust

• To serve the needy and economically backward common public.Conduction of 65 in house periodic free medical camps.
• Bearing of all the medical expenses.
• Provision of high tech medical facilities and treatment at free / affordable cost.
• Served 43,225 of patients till now 2,777 of free laparoscopic surgeries.
• Financial assistance for poor students to persuade education

 

Free Medical ward at GEM Hospital

• 20 beds exclusively to cater medical services including laparoscopic surgeries free of cost forthe needy people.

 

GEM Mobile Clinic

“To reach the unreachable”

• Conduction of free medical camps in rural areas.
• Early detection of diseases.
• Awareness creation in public health issues.
• Incorporates eminent expert team of doctors.
• Equipped with modern scientific tools.
• Facilitated with laboratory, ultrasonology and endoscopy.
• Free checkup, free treatment.

 

Establishment of first Preventive gastroenterology Clinic

• To create awareness among the public in prevention.
• Obesity Awareness – Mini Marathon
• For early detection
• For health education
• Cancer screening
• Obesity clinic

 

Health Education

• To make everyone realize “Prevention is better than cure”.
• Health care awareness creation via lectures, meetings and media – journals, dailies, magazines and television.
• A serial of lectures in Doordarshan – “Vayirae Nalama”, 2005
• Major issues for discussion on Obesity and GI Malignancies aiming Prevention and early detection, cure.
• Public health education.
• Periodic Hepatitis-B Awareness and free vaccination programmes every year one month in August.

 

GEM Nursing Education

• For brilliant, poor female students food, accommodation, college fees and transport are all made free for studying B.Sc Nursing.

 

Trustees

• Dr. C. Palanivelu – Managing Trustee
• Mrs Jaya Palanivelu – Joint Managing Trustee
• Dr. P. Senthilnathan – Joint Managing Trustee