Date:12/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/12/stories/2008051257540600.htm

Tamil Nadu

Oxygen ventilator donated to GRH

Staff Reporter

MADURAI: In an effort to bring improved health care facility, under public-private partnership, the Government Rajaji Hospital here received an oxygen ventilator worth Rs.1.4 lakh recently from Dalmia Group Chairman Sanjay Dalmia.

Mr. Dalmia, along with the Collector S. S. Jawahar and Commissioner of Income Tax Indra Kumar, visited the hospital to hand over the ventilator.

Mr. Jawahar said that necessary initiative had been taken to bring in corporates to adopt the wards in the hospital.

Memorandum of understanding

Some industrial houses and engineering colleges have agreed to sign a memorandum of understanding through which better facilities were expected for the wards.

Stating that this did not mean that the State’s role was diminished, Mr. Jawahar said that processes like these aided the best use of resources for social change.

Social reforms driven by the community would bring people together; turn the attention of the masses to tasks that benefited the society for which the Government was providing a platform

A ‘corpus fund’ was created by forming a committee, for which the Dean is a member along with the District Collector, said S.S. Jawahar.

The fund would be used for the poor and marginalised sections that could not afford to have renal lithotripsy and magnetic resonance image scans.