Our vision is to improve the experience of hospitalized children, and to support the delivery of high quality pediatric care at Tambaram. We call this vision The Pediatric Center at Tambaram. In the first phase, The Pediatric Center is making basic quality-of-life improvements to the pediatric ward, including supporting a full-time, on-site social worker, and purchasing toys, books and videos. In the second phase, we hope The Pediatric Center will improve the quality of pediatric care at Tambaram by endowing the salary of a pediatrician, and supporting some medical costs for patients. In the third phase, The Pediatric Center will improve the quality of pediatric care throughout the region, by providing opportunities for pediatric clinicians to attend advanced training at an on-site center being developed by the CDC.

By American standards, the projected cost of making these improvements to pediatrics at Tambaram is quite reasonable. The 2008 budget for the entire program is under $10,000.