Pain Relief And You

Financial Information

Income and Expenditure

Our total income and expenditure over the past four years is shown in the graph below

On an average, 93% of our total expenditure is towards providing aid to the patients and only 7% goes towards meeting administrative expenses. Our administration expenses such as rent for office space, salaries and communication costs are completely borne personally by the trustees. Also, there is no remuneration or salary provided for the trustees, whose involvement is completely on a voluntary basis. More than 99% of our income is derived from collection of donations from philanthropist donors.

Income

Currently, we have around 30 monthly donors who donate a fixed sum of money each month. This is very helpful to us and as it enables us to have a reliable source of income and helps in our scaling up and planning activities.

Expenditure by Category

We present below the amount spent and number of patients by category since inception till Sept 2006.

Expenditure trends

The trend line of our patients and amount spent in each category is shown below. It depicts that the nature of operations have changed since our inception in response to the type of demand by the patients.

The break-up of our expenditure by category is shown in the accompanying graph below. Our largest expenditure is on Dialysis and Kidney transplant operations. Providing regular maintenance medicines and post operative medicines for kidney patients is our second largest expense area. We also make considerable expenses in heart and cancer treatments.

Regular monthly expenditure

We incur a regular monthly expenditure in providing maintenance medicines and post kidney transplant medicines, and also financing dialysis for patients. The figures for September 2006 are shown below and reflect the norm. This expenditure is of a regular nature and is apart from the other expenditure on financing operations and other procedures.