The Hindu : New Delhi News : A trip unlike any other

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Wednesday, Oct 31, 2007
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A trip unlike any other

They don’t promise it to be a picnic, but guarantee an enjoyable and fruitful venture: half-a-day spent in the Capital’s Rockland Hospital, that is. Having launched and successfully run their unique student-based programme ‘Sankalp’ that aims at creating social sensitivity in the minds of young students within the age group of 15 to 21 years, the hospital is now all set to open up the programme for more students and teachers in the city.

Under the programme, which has already been field tested and is running full steam at the hospital, students are given basic medical tips to deal with any medical emergency including heart attack, trauma-related cases, besides being given helpful tips to tackle medical emergencies.

“More than 500 students have undergone training as part of the project and the schools that have so far participated include Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, Loreto Convent and Fore School of Management. Sankalp is a community-service-based initiative of the hospital and is tailor-made to sensitise people, especially the youth, towards the needs, pain and sufferings of their fellow human beings,” said Oncology Service of Rockland Hospital chairman K. K. Pandey on Tuesday.

Programme

Students invited to the programme are taken around different wards of the hospital for a first-hand knowledge of the emergency treatment. They are taught how to ‘operate’ when they come to the hospital with a patient.

—Bindu Shajan Perappadan

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