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Medical treatment for poor at affordable prices
Medical treatment for poor at affordable prices. Guru Nanak Medical Centre (GNMC), Secunderabad, a unit of Guru Nanak Charitable Trust which has been offering yeomen services to the economically poor and downtrodden sections of the society for the last six years has taken another initiative to provide affordable treatment to all the patients.
Guru Nanak Medical Centre (GNMC), Secunderabad, a unit of Guru Nanak Charitable Trust which has been offering yeomen services to the economically poor and downtrodden sections of the society for the last six years has taken another initiative to provide affordable treatment to all the patients. For the benefit of the patients, GNMC added another digitalised x-ray system and a mini physiotherapy unit. Previously, these facilities were arranged to get the MRI, TMT, EEG and PFT on the charitable basis from outside popular diagnostic centres.
S Baldev Singh Bagga, GNMC Chairman along with S Avatar Singh, secretary and philanthropist and S Ram Singh Bagga, patron told reporters that GNMC, which is entering into its seventh year of its service to humanity, has decided to arrange health camps in all Gurudwaras in Greater Hyderabad for all communities, irrespective of caste and creed. First such unit will be established at Gurudwara Saheb, Ameerpet in about two months time. Providing facility for heart angiography on charitable basis, ophthalmic theatre and facilities for dialysis etc will be established during the next one year.
Baldev Singh said that the medical centre, a non-profit charitable organisation, has been doing yeoman services for the past five years for the needy, for the economically disadvantaged, unprivileged and all others by providing quality medical services at highly subsidised rates. He added that GNMC had taken another initiative of providing free generic medicines to poor patients without any charges. Baldev pointed out that the centre is well equipped with modern equipments and is offering medical services for pathology, cardiology, orthopaedic, gynaecology. ophthalmology, dermatology, dental, ENT etc at a nominal rate.
He mentioned that apart from pathological and diagnostic instrumental techniques like ECG, sonography, ultra sound, doppler studies, 2- DECHO, TMT, EEG, PFT etc, patients are taken care of by experienced general and family physicians. The number of beneficiaries have increased from 40,000 in the fifth year to around 50,000 in the sixth year of operation, with a total of Rs 2.5 crore worth services rendered to the poor and needy. “The trust had spent Rs 50 lakhs last year for the noble cause in addition to Rs 60 lakhs as rent for the establishment and wishes to spend more in the future programmes for medical care”, he added.
