Who is the role model chennaite for you?
asked on 8 months ago by hamsadwani in All the RestThere are 45 lakh people in Chennai, and most of these folks make utterly no difference to anyone in their lives. Who among these 45 lakh Chennaites is your role model, who you think has made a difference, or you would like to emulate...
Gaya3shank says:
on 8 months ago*Chairperson...sorry!
Gaya3shank says:
on 8 months agoDr.V.Shanta, Chairman - Cancer Institute, Adyar. Hats off to her!Nothing else can make a difference than saving and giving a life.
Her Ramon Magsaysay citation reads like this (as mentioned in Wikipaedia):
"In an era when specialised medical care in India has become highly commercialised, Dr. Shanta strives to ensure that the Institute remains true to its ethos, `Service to all.' Its services are free or subsidised for some 60 per cent of its 100,000 annual patients; travel allowances make regular treatments accessible to the poor. And through a volunteer programme called Sanctuary, the Institute provides hope-giving emotional support and counselling to patients and their families and to cancer-afflicted children. There are thousands who might say, as leukaemia victim Delli Rao, a wageworker, has said, `I owe my life to Dr. Shanta.' Seventy-eight-year-old Shanta still sees patients, still performs surgery, and is still on call twenty-four hours a day."