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.
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