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The Mayor, P.R. Ramesh, handing over a cheque to a child being treated at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Bangalore on Tuesday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
BANGALORE, JUNE 22. Diwakar (5) and Ashok Kumar (8) in the children's wing of the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology had an unexpected visitor on Tuesday. They and 32 other children have been undergoing treatment there for days. Shaven heads, chemotherapy and radiation therapy have replaced toys and play for them. The children, who do not even know what has happened to them, were happy to see the Mayor, P.R. Ramesh, and a few officials from the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) offer them sweets and fruits. Diwakar and Ashok were given Rs. 10,000 each from the Mayor's Rs. 1-crore medical relief fund. P.S. Prabhakaran, director of the hospital, had identified the two for the grants. Doing away with the practice of receiving applications from patients to grant medical assistance, the Mayor had started an inspection to identify poor patients in Government hospitals who needed financial assistance. He asked Dr. Prabhakaran to identify eight more patients for an assistance of Rs. 10,000 each. Dr. Prabhakaran appealed to the Mayor to donate a generator to the hospital and get the roads nearby asphalted. "The service roads here are in a bad condition. As our hospital runs on grants from the Government, we have no funds to take up repairs," he told the Mayor. Later, the Mayor visited the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology and offered medical assistance of Rs. 10,000 each to Amrutha (4) and Chitra (23), who have been operated upon for cardiac problems. A.N. Prabhudeva, director of the institute, took Mr. Ramesh to all the wings of the hospital and explained the functioning of the institute. The Mayor asked him to identify eight patients who needed assistance from the fund. Dr. Prabhudeva appealed to the Mayor to donate a modern, portable echo test instrument for the institute which cost about Rs. 12 lakh. The former said the equipment could also be used in the civic body's Preventive Cardiology Centre. The Mayor asked him to send a proposal to the BMP. "It will be placed in the Council and an appropriate decision will be taken," he said. He later visited Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital and asked the hospital's founder-secretary, Benkappa, to identify needy patients for assistance from the fund. The Deputy Mayor, G. Basvaraju; the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Taxation and Finance, K.S. Samiulla; the Deputy Commissioner (Administration), V. Sriramreddy; and the Deputy Health Officer, Mala Ramachandran; accompanied Mr. Ramesh.
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