We started our Palliative Charitable OP Clinic at D-218,
Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, Okhla, Delhi-110025 on 14th June
2014 and the Weekend Clinic continued functioning without any break till 15th
March 2020, when Covid-19 started spreading its tentacles widely and the social
distancing norms came into effect followed with the complete national
lockdown.
The Clinic remained a boon for the poorest of the poor
patients staying not only in the neighbouring Nayi Basti, where Rikshaw Pullers
are the main inhabitants, but also the farthest Badarpur Khadar, a remote Delhi
village bordering Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh where even electricity came
during 2010 and first school in 2012, forget about the public health. Free consultations of the over hundred
patients each day with expert and experienced voluntary doctors from premier
medical institutions of Delhi like AIIMS, Safdarjung Hospital, Dr. RML
Hospital, Lady Hardinge Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College, Trauma Centre,
GTB Hospital, Patel Chest Hospital, Kasturba Gandhi Hospital, National
Pulmonary Institute, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and supported by committed
Nursing professionals also from above institutes and dispensing medicines also
free of charges very much mattered a lot to those hapless patients queue up in
our Clinic on every Sundays.
In addition, for many of the young doctors, this Clinic was
their first experience of seeing patients outside the boundaries and campuses
of their own medical institutions and hence will remain in their minds forever.
We had also initiated the Listening Clinic on every Saturdays
beginning from 12th October 2019, partnering with the Listening
Community comprising of Psychologists and Students of Psychology catering to
the psychological issues of the people.
We are very much grateful to all our esteemed and dedicated Volunteers along
with the benefactors of DNipCare who made it possible for us to serve the
suffering patients so far with a feeling of satisfaction as a service to God.
We also fondly recollect the best efforts taken by late Dr.
Anjana Saxena, Deputy Commissioner (Retd.) Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare in setting up our Clinic, Dr. Zeeshan Ali of AIIMS who made it popular
among the masses by his consistent volunteering and Dr. Hitesh Kumar of Maulana
Azad Medical College for long time serving the patients in the Clinic to
mention a few among the scores of Doctors, Nursing Officers and other
Volunteers stood with the Clinic with ardent support.
Unable to function the Clinic in the Covid circumstances by
maintaining social distancing norms, finally we have now shifted the entire
paraphernalia today, 11th April 2021, consequent on the final blow
that the owner of the premise now sold out the property after her husband, late
Prof. HY Sidheequi, who initially rented it out to us wholeheartedly for
running the Clinic as a charitable activity, died during July 2020.
So we have, for the time being keeping our infrastructure at
337/3B of Tughlakabad Village, courtesy Mrs. Omana Gopal, one of our esteemed
Volunteers and will decide the schedule and nature of functioning of the Clinic
considering the trend of spread of the current Corona endemic. Once again thank you very much to everybody
for their unconditional support to the mission of DNipCare.
