Care & share
The TNMC Global Alumni mission fits in two words: care and share. Care for the college, its students and the hospital, and share alumni resources with them.
Timeline of giving
Highlights of donations made to Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Hospital by TNMC alumni chapters in India, the UK and the USA.
Relief
Alumni and like-minded supporters donated 2,435 PPE kits, 6,450 N95 masks, 750 scrubs, 225 face shields, 100 pulse oximeters, 8,050 ORS packs, 1,000 food packets, post-COVID pulmonary function and sleep apnoea machines, and biochemistry material for COVID testing.
Equipment
A top-of-the-line Storz video laryngoscope worth Rs 15.5 lakh was donated to the Anaesthesia department. Five meritorious final MBBS students were felicitated and every first-year student received a TGA white coat.
Equipment
A 3D laparoscopy camera system worth Rs 33 lakh, the first of its kind in the Gynaecology department of any public hospital, along with medical books worth Rs 1 lakh for the library and an EL probe for Urology.
USA chapter
Four dialysis machines were commissioned in Nephrology courtesy of TGA – USA chapter, alongside paediatric endoscopes, infusion pumps, five scholarships of Rs 40,000 and 120 white coats for first-year students.
Infrastructure
A fully equipped 66-seat Medicine Seminar Hall was rededicated, and a trinocular microscope with digital camera was donated to Pathology.
Education
Six computer stations giving access to top medical journals were commissioned in the TNMC library, and a six-channel ECG machine was donated to Cardiology.
Infrastructure
TONAMEC – UK funded the renovation of the TNMC hostel at Haji Ali, and the 1982 batch helped set up an autism centre run by the Psychiatry department for children in need.
Education
Renovated anatomy and physiology lecture halls, a 65-seat pharmacology mini auditorium, the Dr I M Mehta Memorial Anatomy Dissection Hall, the Dr K N Dastur Surgical Seminar Room, common rooms, a reading room for RMOs, a ventilator, and computers and projectors for departments.
Students first
Every year alumni felicitate meritorious students and teachers, fund scholarships for deserving students, and welcome each new first-year batch with a TGA white coat.
TNMC students now have their own Students’ Area on the global alumni website. Undergraduate, postgraduate and super-specialty students register as associates and automatically become life members when they graduate.
