Life-saving medical equipment for use at home — oxygen machines, wheelchairs, hospital beds, pulse oximeters and more.
When a family needs an oxygen concentrator or a hospital bed at home, the rental cost is often the reason they go without. The equipment bank exists so that cost is not the deciding factor.
Eight branches across Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan lend BiPAP machines, oxygen concentrators, wheelchairs, suction machines, medical beds, oxygen cylinders and walkers, in partnership with health care facilities in the city.
The trust describes the equipment as lent without rent; its own detail page also mentions a small refundable deposit for some items. Call your nearest branch and they will tell you exactly what applies to what you need.
The catalogue
Everything the bank lends, and what to ask for
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Twenty-one kinds of equipment, every one lent free. Tap the item you need and the message writes itself — there is no cart, no form and nothing to pay. Availability differs by branch, so the reply may point you to a different town.
Breathing and oxygen5
Beds and mattresses4
Getting about5
Monitoring4
Clinical and other3
Is there anything to pay?
No rent, ever. The trust does hold a refundable security deposit against the value of the equipment, which is returned when the equipment comes back — that is how a bank of 13,500 items survives being lent out for free. The amount depends on the item and the branch, so ask when you call. If anyone asks you for a fee rather than a returnable deposit, tell the head office.
Support this seva
Three things that would help, today
The fastest way to help this seva is to look in your own back room.
Give back equipment you no longer need
A wheelchair, a walker, a hospital bed or an oxygen concentrator bought during someone's illness is worth nothing in your storeroom and everything to the next family. The trust will collect it.
Fund a piece for a branch
Branches run short of particular items. Ring and ask which one is short of what before you buy anything.
Host a branch in your town
Six of the eight branches sit in premises someone else lends — a hospital, a Rotary hall, a café, a hotel. A room is a branch.
Nothing here is paid for on this website. Every one of these starts with a phone call, because they are conversations rather than transactions — and because the trust would rather know what you are offering than take a card number.
