PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Sept 7 : Two kids from Jharkhand’s Dumka district were sent to a Chhattisgarh-based hospital on Tuesday for surgery as they were suffering from congenital heart disease.
Nitra Tudu , a 7-year-old girl child and 3-year-old Rudra Bagdi both hailing from Dumka left for the Chhattisgarh-based hospital in an ambulance provided by the state government from Jamshedpur.
Former East Singhbhum civil surgeon Dr. Maheshwar Prasad and senior functionaries of Satya Sai Arogya Vahini, a trust which is helping for the cause were present on the occasion.
Collaborating with the state government, the Sri Sathya Sai Aarogya Vahini Trust organises all necessary logistics so that the kids undergo surgeries at the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Heart Hospital in Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
The kids were accompanied by their parents.
Senior functionaries of the trust TV Subba Rao informed that so far 50 such kids from Jharkhand had underwent critical and rare heart surgeries at that hospital and are now living a healthy life.
Notably, in September 2019, a telemedicine centre was started at the Sadar Hospital at Khasmahal, on the outskirts the of Jamshedpur, following an initiative of the then civil surgeon, Dr Maheshwar Prasad.
The telemedicine centre, which was inaugurated by then deputy commissioner Ravi Shankar Shukla, connected Jharkhand with Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Heart Hospital in Naya Raipur.
Since then, a list of children, from various Jharkhand districts, are prepared, who are referred to the Sanjeevani Hospital . They get operated so that they can lead a normal life.
Last year six girls from Jamshedpur, Giridih, Chatra, Bokaro and Dhanbad underwent surgeries for congenital heart disease. Their ailments were detected at the telemedicine centre at the Sadar Hospital here.
Dr Maheshwar Prasad thanked the trust for working for this greater cause.
The trust, provides dinner packets and dry snacks to the families for a comfortable journey.
Once they reach Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital the trust take care of their stay and other requirements free of cost.
