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After his wife Meherbai's illness and death in 1931 he founded the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust in 1932 and left it everything he had; the Trust built Tata Memorial in 1941, called the first large contribution of India to the international fight against cancer.
Sir Dorabji Tata (1859-1932), eldest son of Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata, led the group into steel, power and hotels. His wife Lady Meherbai died in 1931 after an illness treated with the best care then available, which brought home to him how little existed in India for cancer patients. Tata Trusts' history records that the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust was founded in 1932, one of the oldest non-communal, multipurpose charitable trusts in India, and that on his death that year he left his entire fortune, including a 40% share in Tata Sons, to it. The Trust established the Tata Memorial Centre for Cancer Research and Treatment in Bombay in 1941, described at the time as the first large contribution of India to the international fight against cancer; it later passed to the Government of India and is now the country's largest cancer centre. Jamsetji Tata, who died in 1904, had no direct role in the hospital.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden, Most of the world has almost no cancer care and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden, Most of the world has almost no cancer care and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden, Most of the world has almost no cancer care and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.
Shares Funding follows fashion, not burden and the tags hero, donor.