Hope floats
By Anjali Singh Jaiswal Times News Network Friday, June 13, 2003
The hike in treatment charges at SGPGI couldn't have come at a worse time for Bhagwan. The
28-year-old destitute is suffering from a critical heart condition and needs Rs
1.5 lakhs for an immediate surgery to have his cardiac valves replaced - an impossibly large sum for
him to accrue.
. . . Bhagwan came to seek refuge at this home for the destitute a year back. . . . ''Bhagwan came
to us a year ago from New Delhi. He told us that when he found out that he has a debilitating
heart condition he was advised by people to come to Lukhnow . . .
Since then he has been with us. His condition is deteriorating day by day and we cannot afford the
expensive treatment as we have 165 sick inmates in need of medical attention. We can barely afford
treatment for them, arranging Rs 1.5 laks for a single patient is unthinkable.''
But all is not lost and there's hope for Bhagwan yet. Though it's proving to be a difficult job to
collect the money, good Samaritans from the city have volunteered to come to Bhagwan's aid and
collect funds for his surgery.
Leading the lot is Sumit Dhingra, a student of IIM Lukhnow now working in Bangalore. Says Anuradha
Kumar of Prithvi Innovations who has been appealing to students at IIM to get involved to do their
bit in social causes.
''Sumit has taken upon himself to raise funds for Bhagwan. At present he is in Bangalore but he
keeps in touch with us . . . We have a social service group. . . which was formed by the students of
IIM Lukhnow and it has been instrumental in taking up such cases.''
Despite a PM's discretionary fund existing at PGI, the onus of raising funds for Bhagwan's surgery
rests with people like Sumit. While the procedure for applying for assistance from the PM's fund is
a long drawn one, Sumit continues to send drafts from Bangalore of whatever meagre amount he can
manage to raise.
. . raising funds single handedly has not been an easy task and Sumit has managed to raise a
negligible amount of the actual sum required till now. Dr Aditya Kapoor, the cardiologist
treating Bhagwan at SGPGI says time could be running out, ''The patient is in a critical
condition and requires surgery at the earliest. Though I have done the initial ECHO free of cost,
those tests are not sufficient. A computerised ECHO is necessary which is again expensive.''
For Sumit and others like him, who have come forward to help, it's a fight against time as much as
against a system that fails to provide for the needy.
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