Telangana: Nalgonda doctors go the extra mile to assist the needy

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: May 13, 2020, 11:41 IST

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Telangana: Nalgonda doctors go the extra mile to assist the needy

Doctors from Nalgonda district are providing food to leprosy patients, physically challenged, poor and homeless people

HYDERABAD: Apart from treating patients, doctors in Nalgonda district are providing food to leprosy patients, physically challenged, poor and homeless people. The doctors have also contributed money to the needy during the Covid-19 lockdown in the last 25 days.
“The worst sufferers are leprosy patients. With deformed hands, feet and damaged limbs due to chronic infections, they are unable to take care of themselves,” Dr Jayaprakash Reddy of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Nilagiri, said.

On alternate days, more than 400 people are being provided food by IMA doctors with each of them taking turns to sponsor the meals. The doctors — Uday Singh, Venu, Ramesh, Nagesh, Kameshwar, Jayakumar, S Srinivas, Indira, Swetha, PVN Murthy and Cobra Reddy — and IMA Nilagiri president Pulla Rao have taken it upon themselves to ensure that the poor do not go hungry.
“This is being done as a social responsibility in addition to providing professional service to the society,” Dr Jayaprakash said. The doctors have also taken up awareness programmes about coronavirus by teaming up with police. They also went around distributing masks, particularly to vegetable vendors. PPE kits worth Rs 1 lakh were donated to the Nalgonda Medical College and handed over to Nalgonda SP AV Ranganath.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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