“The treatment at the charitable hospital will be on a sliding scale in which patients pay what they can afford, which is usually a small percentage of the overall medical cost. Kalidas also revealed that the Amrita Charitable Hospital to be built in a sprawling area in Bukit Tambun, south Seberang Prai, is in the pipeline, awaiting approval from the authorities. “This is in line with Amma’s dedication to education and healthcare initiatives such as Amrita University and World’s Amrita Hospital in India,” he pointed out. “Another top priority is medical funding which we render to the poor who need wheelchairs, prosthesis, surgery or treatment of major ailments. The centre has been giving out donations to numerous education programmes and for scholarships. The organisation in Penang is a leading global charity organisation founded and led by Satguru Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi or the ‘hugging saint’ who is fondly known as Amma. Kalidas, 45, said through this strategy, the organisation could monitor the progress of each student and even keep track of their job prospects in the future.
“We find such funding more meaningful, rather than giving RM2,000 to RM3,000 to over 100 students,” he said. “We then sponsor their entire course fees which amount to between RM100,000 and RM200,000 per student. “We choose 10 to 15 youths who are pursuing higher education every year. The organisation’s trustee Kalidas Komaravelo, 45, said they had given RM15mil since 2002 in scholarships to university students and educational equipment to secondary schools. RATHER than give a little aid to many needy students, Or Mata Amritanandamayi chooses to instead focus on a fewer number and help them till they get university degrees.
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