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Gladys Staines back to fulfil husband's dream

Setting up hospital with modern facilities being considered

Baripada: Gladys Staines, wife of the slain Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines, has returned to Orissa to look after the management of the Leprosy Home here.

Mayurbhanj Leprosy Home (MLH) chairman Subhankar Ghosh told reporters that Ms. Staines would attend a general body meeting of the MLH Association here on June 19.

Large hospital

It would discuss implementation of Graham Staines' dream project — a big hospital where facilities for reconstructive surgery to cure deformities and physiotherapy treatment would be available.

The hospital, when commissioned, would alleviate the miseries of the leprosy-afflicted in Mayurbhanj and other sick persons from neighbouring Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Earlier, on arrival on Thursday, she met the staff of the Graham Staines Memorial Hospital, located in the Mission House compound, and discussed its functioning.

The hospital, constructed by the MLH Association, was opened in 2004.

Graham Staines, who came here in 1965, and his sons Philip and Timothy were killed by a mob on January 22, 1999 at Manoharpur in Orissa's Keonjhar district.

Ms. Staines has been staying at Townsville in Australia, where her daughter Esther goes to a medical college.

She will be in her Mission compound residence here till the month-end, according to sources.

UNI

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