Reaching out for operation
Ram Iqbal fell when he was going to the wash room which is a make shift place. His wife Chinta devi is the sole family of Ram Iqbal, they have no children and both are elderly. Ram Iqbal drives a rickshaw and also runs a small tea stall. Once this mishap took place, there was no way of making ends meet. The community at Malaai Pakkdi has always been supportive and they reached out to the elderly couple and took him to the hospital. Spending quite some time at the Patna Medical College Hospital they were told that there was need for surgery as the bone was broken in three places. The demand was some 20,000/ - it was an impossible amount, the couple did not have the kind of money. How to reach out to the man who needed medical help. We approached many people for help it took months as he lay in pain in his hut.
At last unable to digest this truth we talked to the community and they agreed to make a contribution by collecting some money. It was truly heart rendering to find the contribution of almost 5000/- from the community. At last with efforts of the team and the community, the operation was successful.