SBI General Insurance Joins Hands With Cuddles Foundation To Support Paediatric Cancer Patients

SBI General Insurance has announced that it has joined hands with Cuddles Foundation to support the FoodHeals Program by the Foundation in Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre for paediatric cancer patients in Madurai, the company said in a statement.

The program aims to provide counselling, diet planning, caregiver support, nutritional meals and supplements to 250 paediatric cancer patients for a duration of 3 months. The programme focuses on providing counselling and diet planning where nutritionists assess a child’s grade of malnourishment, plan diets and monitors progress. Basis this they are then aided with food and supplements like nutritional supplements, hot meals, in-meal supplements. 

Speaking on the social cause, Anand Pejawar, Whole-Time Director, SBI General Insurance said," We have associated with Cuddles Foundation for the Foodheals Program which will focus on providing counselling, diet plan, food and supplements aid and caregiver support. This will help them have the knowledge of the disease, its recovery mechanism and protocol for the same and more importantly access to quality food intake which helps the patient to become strong enough to endure the pain & probable side effects of radiation and chemotherapy.”