Every Sunday,Trainee doctors from KEM Hospital (Parel) setup medical camp in a tinshed in the Mandala slum in Mankhurd , that duels as a balwadi , during rest of the week. Residents queue up in their hundreds for free consultation from these young doctors from Indian as well as from foreign universities.
These doctors from KEM Hospital reach out to almost 1.5 lakh residents . Trainee doctors have been coming to Mandala for a free medical camps for the past two months. Their presence has helped these slum dwellers get a decent consultation as opposed to they were used to get medically unqualified quacks , before their arrival
It is only during any dire medical need that the residents of these slums visit Hospitals, as the closest hospital is either Sion or JJ in Byculla. “It is a relief to have skilled doctors for treatment,” said Phool Chand Yadav, a labourer whose four-year-old daughter has been suffering from asthma for the past two years. Many, like Yadav, tired of spending in vain on neighborhood doctors, have a new hope things will improve , Thanks to these benevolent doctors.
As reported in TOI 20th April 2009 … read full story by Chinmayi Shalya
