To understand the awareness level of Stem Cell Banking in the prescribed areas of Pune. The areas were prescribed to me by the Company. My prescribed areas in Pune were Pune Cantonment, Wanowrie, Hadapsar and Fatima Nagar.

1. CRYOBANKS INTERNATIONAL INDIA
LTD.
Project Tittle: “Study of awareness level of stem
cell banking in the of prescribed areas of Pune”
Presented by:
Rohan Bakshi
IB1412255

2. FLOW OF THE PRESENTATION...
 Introduction
 Company Profile
 Objective
 Analysis & interpretation of Data
 Key Findings
 Recommendations & Suggestions
 Limitations
 Bibliography
 Appendix

3. WHAT IS A STEM CELL?
Stem cells are ‘Master Cells’. The raw material
from which all of the Body mature, differentiated
cells are made. They give rise to brain cells, nerve
cells, heart cells, pancreatic cells, etc. It was
discovered in the year 1968
Microscopic Image of a Stem cell

4. Cryobanks
International
India Ltd.
Joint
Venture
COMPANY PROFILE…

5. COMPANY PROFILE…
 It was founded in 2006.
 Situated at Gurgaon, Haryana.
 It is operational in Thailand, UAE, Nepal,
Bangladesh and East Africa making it the only
India Cord Blood bank available in International
Market.

6.  Harvesting cord blood stem cells and storage.
 Price of the service offered is…
Rs. 49,500/- only for 21 years.
(After 21 years, the same service can be extended for the
same price and time period.)
SERVICE OFFERED…

7. COMPETITORS…

8. OBJECTIVE…
 To understand the awareness level of Stem Cell
Banking in the prescribed areas of Pune.
 The areas were prescribed to me by the
Company. My prescribed areas in Pune were as
follows
 Pune Cantonment
 Wanowrie
 Hadapsar and
 Fatima Nagar.

9. ANALYSIS
&
INTERPRETATION OF DATA…

10. IN KEM & RUBY HALL CLINIC, NUMBER OF EXPECTED DELIVERIES IS VERY HIGH IN
COMPARISON TO ALL THOSE HOSPITAL WHICH REFLECTS IN THE GRAPH BELOW.
Q.1) What is the number of expected delivery in a month?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors

11. IN KEM & JEHANHIR HOSPITAL, NUMBER OF EXPECTED POTENTIAL DELIVERIES ARE VERY HIGH IN
COMPARISON TO ALL THOSE HOSPITAL WHICH REFLECTS IN THE BAR GRAPH BELOW.
Q.2) What is the number of expected Potential deliveries in a month?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors

12. DR. MANJIRI KULKARNI FROM JEHANGIR HOSPITAL HAS MORE NUMBER OF PATIENTS WHO ASK
FOR STEM CELL BANKING THAN OTHER DOCTORS WHICH REFLECTS IN THE BAR GRAPH BELOW.
Q.3) What is the number of expected Potential deliveries in a month?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors

13. Q.4) Do you recommend stem cells banking?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors
MOST OF THE DOCTORS DO RECOMMEND STEM CELL BANKING TO THEIR PATIENTS, AS
REFLECTED IN THE PIE CHART BELOW.

14. ACCORDING TO THE PIE CHART BELOW, CRYOBANKS INTERNATIONAL INDIA LTD. IS HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED AS THEIR SERVICES ARE PREFERRED MORE AND SOME DOCTORS DO NOT SUGGEST
ANY BANK AS THEY LEAVE IT TO THEIR PATIENTS.
Q.5) If yes, which bank do you recommend ?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors

15. Q.6) If you do not recommend, what is the reason behind the
same?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PIE CHART, 42.86% OF THE DOCTORS DO NOT RECOMMEND STEM
CELL BANKING BECAUSE THEY FIND IT EXPENSIVE FOR THE PATIENTS.

16. Q.7) Can you suggest the stem cells banks about how to create awareness
about stem cells banking?
BASE: 25
Response from
Doctors
ACCORDING TO MAXIMUM PERCENT DOCTORS, AWARENESS ABOUT STEM CELL
BANKING CAN BE DONE BY SEMINARS, AS SHOWN IN THE PIE CHART.

17. LIST OF HOSPITALS VISITED AND DOCTORS
MET…
S. No. Name of the Hospital Name of the Doctors
1 Tanmey Nursing Home Dr. Chandrashekar Sangvi
2 KEM Hospital Dr. Vivek M Joshi
3 AFMC, Pune Brig (Dr.) Manash Biswas
4 Apollo Clinic Dr. Nina Mansukhani
5 Prarthna Clinic Dr. Padma Srivastava
6 Jehangir Hospital Dr. Manjiri Kulkarni
7 Ruby Hall Clinic, Wanowari Dr. Maria Patil
8 Ruby Hall Clinic, Dhole Patil Road Dr. (Col) G. S. Duggal
9 Inamdar Hospital Dr. Amit Shah
10 Deoskar Clinic Dr. Shubhada Deoskar
11 Colony Nursing Home Dr. Nitin Arvind Sangamnerkar
12 Meera Hospital Dr. Umranikar
13 Mantri Hospital Dr. Manisha Goud
14 Sharda Clinic Dr. Vineth Jain
15 Deshpande Hospital Dr. Sushruta Mokadam
16 Arnav Clinic Dr. M. K. Mundada
17 Usha Hospital Dr. Anita Gavali
18 Sanjivan Polyclinic Dr. Rachana Rawat
19 Heal And Cure Dr. Manisha Patil
20 Dr Otiv Clinic Dr. S. R. Otiv
21 SAI Multispeciality Hospital Dr. Sushant Shinde
22 Mehta Clinic Dr. Vimla Mehta
23 Noble Hospital Dr. Anil Varpe
24 Lady Hope Clinic Dr. Payal R. Narang
25 Active Health Care Clinic Dr. Nilopher Shaikh

18. Q.1) Do you know about stem cells banking?
BASE: 50
Response from
Prospect Customers
THE AWARENESS LEVEL OF STEM CELL BANKING IS LOW, AS SHOWN IN THE PIE CHART.

19. Q.2) Will you opt for stem cells banking at the time of birth of your baby?
BASE: 50
Response from
Prospect Customers
THE AWARENESS LEVEL OF STEM CELL BANKING, AMONG THE PROSPECT CUSTOMERS IS LOW,
AS SHOWN IN THE PIE CHART.

20. Q.3) At which stem cells bank are you thinking of getting
stored the stem cells?
BASE: 50
Response from
Prospect Customers
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PIE CHART, CRYOBANKS INTERNATIONAL INDIA LTD. IS THE MOST
POPULAR AMONG THE OTHER BANKS.

21. Q.4) ReasonReasons why do you not want to get your stem
cells stored
BASE: 50
Response from
Prospect Customers
‘NOT USEFUL AS IT IS STILL AT RESEARCH STAGE’ IS THE MOST POPULAR REPLY OF THE
CUSTOMERS WHO DO NOT OPT STEM CELL BANKING, AS SEEN FROM THE PIE CHART.

22. Q.5) Now after getting brief knowledge, if given a chance,
would you opt for stem cells banking?
BASE: 50
Response from
Prospect Customers
AFTER A BRIEF EXPLANATION GIVEN BY ME, 13012% OF THE TOTAL POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
SHOWED A POSITIVE RESPONSE TOWARDS STEM CELL BANKING.

23. S. No Name of Prospect Customers S. No Name of Prospect Customers
1 Neetu Sethi 26 Vidya Kharpas
2 Nisha Chaudhary 27 Saju Punnoose
3 Priyadarshini Natekar 28 Adwait M. Paranjpe
4 Pushpa Satpute 29 Akhilesh Ghodmare
5 Shivaleela Patil 30 Sachin Patil
6 Ila Rathore 31 Alok Saraf
7 Heena Khan 32 Bhagyesh Maybhate
8 Yogita Pawar 33 Amit Parchure
9 Snehlata Lulla 34 Jawahar Wakins
10 Rukshar Sheikh 35 Ajita Shrimani
11 Neeta N. Badhe 36 Pardeep Jani
12 Ruchita Ghosalkar 37 Abdul Latif Khan
13 Madhura Joshi 38 Pankaj Chawla
14 Surekha K. S. 39 Madhura Joshi
15 Preeti Panse 40 Abdul Sheikh
16 Ruchi Kulkarni 41 Pankaj Khanzode
17 Rashmi Pujara 42 Yashwant Patil
18 Anjana Chawra 43 Amit Saurabh
19 Anjali Deshmukh 44 Rehan Khan
20 Tejal Tawde 45 Amit Range
21 Vaishali Kshirsagar 46 Pushkar Pandit
22 Swati Natekar 47 Pawan Deshpande
23 Neetu Sethi 48 Tejal Tawde
24 Maya Jatar 49 Rohit Uzgare
25 Kavita Chavan 50 Vikas Chourasia
LIST OF PROSPECT CUSTOMERS MET…

24.  28% of the Doctors do not recommend stem cell
banking, as they find it expensive for the patients,
cannot trust the technology used for storage
purpose, and some of them also feel that it is still
undergoing research stage.
 33.33% of doctors recommend Cryobanks
International India Ltd.
 36% of doctors feel, the awareness about stem cell
banking can be increased by conducting seminars.
KEY FINDINGS…
According to the
Doctors

25.  31% of the total numbers of prospect customers are
aware of stem cell banking but out of that 45% of the
prospect customers do not opt for stem cell banking
because they find it expensive, do not trust the
storage technology and feel that it is still undergoing
research.
 40% of total number of prospect customers use the
services of Cryobanks International India Ltd.
FINDINGS…
According to
Prospect Customers

26.  Reaching out to target customers through Advertising,
conducting Seminars, and placing their representatives
in various hospitals for directly counseling the prospect
customers.
 Awareness building of stem cell banking can be mainly
done my spreading the success stories of stem cell
banking among the prospect customers because many
of them feel that stem cell banking is still undergoing
research.
RECOMMENDATIONS & SUGGESTIONS…

27.  Analysis done, is on the presumption that the information
collected from the respondent is true and correct.
 Due to the nature of some questions, the respondents
were reluctant to part with certain information.
 Non-cooperation shown by certain prospect customers
and doctors.
 Cannot be said that the data taken for the study is fully
adequate to get the desired or accurate result.
 Data was collected from the prescribed areas of Pune
City which may not represent the true picture of country
as a whole.
LIMITATIONS…

28. Internet:
 http://www.cryobanksindia.com/about-us/
 http://www.lifeforcecryobanks.com/about-lifeforce.html
 http://www.cryobanksindia.com/about-us/strength-
behind-us/
 http://www.indiacom.com/yellow-pages/stem-cell-
banks/
 http://www.viacord.com/cord-banking/processing-and-
storage/
Reference Material
 Company Pamphlet
BIBLIOGRAPHY…

29. APPENDIX…
 Questionnaire for the Doctors
 Questionnaire for the Prospect Customers
 Interpretation of Data, on Excel Sheet