Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 27: As a good will gesture and to help the humanity the doctors of Anaesthesia Deptt GMC Jammu have formulated a group under the name Cause to help the needy and poor patients whose families can’t afford the charges of medicines etc.
The doctors decided to contribute together for Cause to help the poor patients admitted in ICU of the hospital from time to time.
This all started with a cause to help a patient named Vicky aged 11 years S/o Tarachand of village Goldi tehsil Ramnagar, Udhampur who was admitted in ICU of Medical College Jammu since 2 months as a case of RTA with head injury.
Patient had been referred from District Hospital Udhampur. He was admitted in ICU of GMC in very critical condition and was on ventilator.
As it was impossible for parents of Vicky to afford the treatment inspite of all help from hospital administration, the doctors of Department of Anaesthesia and ICU GMC came forward and took it as personal responsibility in arranging the medicine and necessary requirements of the patient
Financial assistance was arranged for the patient, as a cheque donated by Bhagwan Gopinath Ashram Jammu for the amount of Rs 15000 was handed over to the father of the patient by Dr Shashi Gupta principal GMC JAMMU in presence of HoD Anaesthesia and ICU Dr Smriti Ghulati on Republic Day yesterday. Pt was handed over medicines on his discharge from Hospital for which was contributed by doctors of the Department of Anaesthesia.
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