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Dr. K.S. Sanjivi Award 2010 “Doctor with a heart” Nine doctors receive Sanjivi award Nine doctors on Sunday received Dr K S Sanjivi Award for their dedicated and tireless service to the poor. Health Secretary V K Subburaj gave a way the award, conferred by NGOs Ekam Foundation and Udhavum Ullangal. One of the recipients, Shiva Prasad Sahoo, an ophthalmologist from Orissa, worked towards eradicating blindness in tribal areas of the State. Similarly, L Muthusamy, a general practitioner from Madurai, spent the whole of his lifetime savings for the downtrodden. He always met the medical expenses of coolies when they were unable to work due to illness. Speaking at the event, Dr Muthusamy thanked his mentor C Ramasubramaniam, a renowned psychiatrist from Madurai, who urged him to serve the people.Another awardee, Vanaja successfully transformed Medavakkam Public Health Center into a model one for the rest of the country to emulate. She is at present the Joint Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.P Amutha Rajeshwari of the Government Rajaji Hospital was honoured for her role in the treatment of over 300 mentally challenged children.A paediatric haematologist and immunologist from Mehta hospital, Dr Sarala Rajajee received the award for providing exemplary care not just for sick children, but also their parents.R Krishnamoorthy, a hand and microsurgeon at Government Stanley Hospital, was another recipient of the award. He and his team had restored the limbs of several patients, most of them being labourers from north Chennai.Then there were Subramaniya Bharathiyar, Professor and Head of the Department of Anaesthesia, Stanley hospital, who offered immediate help to victims of calamities not just in Tamil Nadu, but across the country and J S N Murthy who formed a trust in Ramachandra Hospital and helped more than 35 children to undergo free surgery. Pushpa from the Institute of Child Health received Lifetime Achievement Award for supporting children with cancer. Sri Ramachandra Math and Mission and Isha Outreach were also awarded for their work. Read more about doctors day 2010 on this article. |
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Donor sponsorship model (Contribution of premium for a child by Guardian angel): We started off in January with the target of raising the premium for 10,000 children. However, so far we have been able to raise the premium for only 2500 children and hoping to raise for 1000 more children within this month end. We don't want to defer the launch of the scheme further,owing to the target of 10,000. Instead, we are planning to wind up the things by this month and initiate the scheme in June with 3500 children. Out of the 10,000 children whom we have initially identified, we are now picking out the 3500 most deserving children & areas and working out the data collection, photos, id card processing etc for them. For the other children (left over in 10,000), we would be anyway going ahead with the medical camps and keep addressing their health care as well. So far we have conducted 6 medical camps for the areas, where the children needed immediate medical attention. (Click here to check out the camps conducted so far).
Community-ownership (premium to be borne by the parents):
We had been trying to bring in 15,000 children from the ICDS centers under community ownership into PBS. (ICDS stands for Integrated Child Development Services and ICDS centers are a nationwide children homes, Balvadis & centers directly under the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt of India). However it has dragged us for a while to get through the procedures and approvals needed. Though we got the approval from Tamilnadu Chief Secretariat ( View) , it would take still longer from the end of ICDS to facilitate the things and definitely it is not possible before the end of May and hence we got to defer these ICDS children for next year, as we look fwd to launch the scheme in June. |
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EKAM - ONENESS is a Community Pediatric Project to provide complete and holistic health care to the underprivileged children in partnership with hospitals Pediatricians,Nutrionists,Social Workers,Yoga Instructors and NGOs. Ekam tries to ensure that no child is denied of best health care. |
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