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Foundation gets a van for its staff

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— PHOTO: M. KARUNAKARAN

Useful addition: Bank of India’s Chennai Zone Manager S.K. Datta (right) hands over the keys of the van to Shanthi Ranganathan in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI: T.T.Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation, a non-governmental organisation to which the TTK Hospital is attached, received a van from the Bank of India.

The bank’s Chennai Zone Manager S.K. Datta presented the vehicle’s keys to Shan0thi Ranganathan, the honorary secretary of the Foundation at a function on Friday.

Mr. Datta said the van, a Bolero, would be used by the hospital for transporting the staff to remote places to provide treatment to needy persons for drug or alcohol addiction. The bank had been sponsoring various social events as part of its publicity drive, he said. Ms.Ranganathan said the van would help the Foundation’s volunteers travel “incognito” and ensure that people who were currently enrolled for treatment at the clinic were regularly monitored to avoid relapse.

“We have only ambulances. When an ambulance arrives at a home everyone would want to know why the vehicle is there.” And people who desperately need treatment would shy away from approaching the clinic or the volunteers. A vehicle such as the one that the bank had donated would ensure privacy for the patients, she added.

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