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Woman to be sent to U.S. under Arogyasri

Vendi Rojaneela

DUGGONDI (WARANGAL DT.): People in sleepy Mallampalli village consider 42-year-old Vendi Rojaneela as ‘most fortunate’ among all of them and look her up in reverence. Eking out living as a daily wage labour, Rojaneela is leaving for U.S. in the second week for treatment of papillary carcinoma thyroid, which she has been suffering from since a decade.

Thanks to the Arogyasri scheme, it has resulted in a new level of confidence among the villagers.

Rojoneela, a committed TDP worker who had been Telugu Mahila mandal secretary for over nine years, tried her best to get treatment.

“I got help from the State government. Doctors diagnosed my ailment as cancer and said it needed very costly treatment,” she said.

In May, when she could bear no more the pain in her throat and chest, she was transported in EMRI ambulance from the village to mandal headquarters. She was then admitted in NIMS where the doctors promised to send her to U.S. for advanced treatment.

“I am among five others -- one from Tirupati, one from Palavoncha and two others from Kurnool -- going there for a 10-day treatment on December 22,” she told The Hindu. Profusely thanking Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Ms Rojaneela said two good things that happened during the Congress regime were introduction of emergency ambulance and launching of Rajiv Arogyasri. “Everybody knows that I belong to Telugu Desam Party, but I was given Arogyasri card,” she said.

The mood in the village is upbeat. A village youth, V. Ramesh, said they were more confident than in the past as they all had Rajiv Arogyasri cards now.

Ms. Rojaneela and her husband Maraiah work as agricultural labour. Their three sons who are college students also work in the fields during vacations.

“I went to NIMS in the past. Each injection cost Rs. 3,000. I could get little help from the CM’s Relief Fund during TDP regime,” she pointed out.

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