CHENNAI: The large funeral that turned out to condole the loss of life of North Chennai’s ‘Two-Rupee Doctor’ has inspired his family members to offer inexpensive remedy for deficient sufferers. Fondly referred to as ‘People’s Doctor’ for charging Rs 2 to regard the ones from humble backgrounds, overdue Dr S Jayachandran’s family members have revived the observe on the hospital in Old Washermenpet. Instead of paying any charge, deficient sufferers place their inexpensive charge sooner than the overdue doctor’s portrait after remedy.
“We don't want to his services to the deficient and needy to end. Our circle of relatives is sporting the purpose forward, where my youngsters and I are proceeding to regard the economically weaker sections without difficult any charge,” Dr C Veni, spouse of Jayachandran instructed TOI. The former scientific superintendent of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) mentioned sufferers have began trickling in once they came to understand that curtains have not been drawn on the hospital on the Venkatachalam Street in Old Washermenpet. “My husband used to regard 200 sufferers all the way through the day. Though we would not have sufferers of that scale, 30 sufferers visit us day-to-day on a mean on the hospital,” she mentioned.
While Veni, who is employed in a non-public scientific faculty at Chromepet, visits the hospital in the morning, her youngsters Dr J Saravana Jegan and Dr J Sarath Raj deal with sufferers in the evenings. The hospital operates for 12 hours between nine.30am and nine.30pm with one in all them to be had for sufferers.
Sarath Raj mentioned he made an entry to the hospital on a regular basis after his father was severely ill from October last year and due to this fact gave up the ghost on December 19, 2018.
“Indeed, I had rarely handled any affected person in conjunction with my father on the hospital. But, his loss of life, for which masses of people thronged for the funeral brought a spark in me,” he mentioned. According to Sarath Raj, who is an assistant professor in a government health facility in Chennai, no charge is charged for deficient sufferers on the hospital. “It could be Rs 3 or Rs 5. We ask them to put their charge sooner than my dad’s portrait,” he mentioned. Philanthropists and native organizations are providing medicine and medication that may be provided free of cost for deficient sufferers.
Jayachandran used to be working the hospital for greater than 3 decades at Old Washermenpet. Beginning to fee Rs 2 as consultation charge from deficient sufferers in Kasimedu, Kodungaiyur and deficient localities of North Chennai in the 1990s, he used to be charging Rs 10 all through his last days in 2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and more than a few political leader had condoled his loss of life.
G Jothi, a affected person, recalls getting handled for just Rs 5 in the last 18 years. “I'm a caretaker for senior voters. For people like me, this hospital is the one solace all through illness,” she added.
“We don't want to his services to the deficient and needy to end. Our circle of relatives is sporting the purpose forward, where my youngsters and I are proceeding to regard the economically weaker sections without difficult any charge,” Dr C Veni, spouse of Jayachandran instructed TOI. The former scientific superintendent of Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) mentioned sufferers have began trickling in once they came to understand that curtains have not been drawn on the hospital on the Venkatachalam Street in Old Washermenpet. “My husband used to regard 200 sufferers all the way through the day. Though we would not have sufferers of that scale, 30 sufferers visit us day-to-day on a mean on the hospital,” she mentioned.
While Veni, who is employed in a non-public scientific faculty at Chromepet, visits the hospital in the morning, her youngsters Dr J Saravana Jegan and Dr J Sarath Raj deal with sufferers in the evenings. The hospital operates for 12 hours between nine.30am and nine.30pm with one in all them to be had for sufferers.
Sarath Raj mentioned he made an entry to the hospital on a regular basis after his father was severely ill from October last year and due to this fact gave up the ghost on December 19, 2018.
“Indeed, I had rarely handled any affected person in conjunction with my father on the hospital. But, his loss of life, for which masses of people thronged for the funeral brought a spark in me,” he mentioned. According to Sarath Raj, who is an assistant professor in a government health facility in Chennai, no charge is charged for deficient sufferers on the hospital. “It could be Rs 3 or Rs 5. We ask them to put their charge sooner than my dad’s portrait,” he mentioned. Philanthropists and native organizations are providing medicine and medication that may be provided free of cost for deficient sufferers.
Jayachandran used to be working the hospital for greater than 3 decades at Old Washermenpet. Beginning to fee Rs 2 as consultation charge from deficient sufferers in Kasimedu, Kodungaiyur and deficient localities of North Chennai in the 1990s, he used to be charging Rs 10 all through his last days in 2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and more than a few political leader had condoled his loss of life.
G Jothi, a affected person, recalls getting handled for just Rs 5 in the last 18 years. “I'm a caretaker for senior voters. For people like me, this hospital is the one solace all through illness,” she added.
Kin of ‘Two-Rupee Doc’ pick up where he left off
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