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| Monday, June 11, 2007 |
“AROGYADAAN”-the name may be exaggeration of the impact that it supposed to create or it may be a superlative rhetoric for the effort that had been put in but by no stretch of imaginations belittles the sincerity of the thread members and the enormity of the cause behind it.
8th of June 2007-The day carries no special memoirs that a non-historian can probably recall. But it does for me and several other practitioners of Deloitte who spent the day with strangers who suffer from the Thalassemia disease.
Great times always send omens first up. Getting up before 6 o' clock in the morning is a rare occasion in itself and many of us did actually see the sun rising over the horizon.-Pun intended by all means.
After garnering the scintillating Blue T-shirt and the white wrist band, we all looked as one community with one aim wrapped up in the philanthropic cause. The task was not Herculean and impact was not supposed to be majestic. Ordinary people with ordinary abilities- we had set ourselves easy goals. To sketch a few more strokes of color in the canvas of lives of Thalassemic patients.
We are not “Gods” nor do we have the divine touch to heal the patients but we all came forward willingly to donate the bloods for the Thalassemia patients which is ,in all senses anodyne for them.
Blood Donation drive was a runaway success. Thanks to every individual and thanks to the goodness of blood in everybody’s veins that nurses compassion and care for fellow human beings. Taking time from our prototyped lives and putting hands up for help is an achievement we can always feel proud of. Just to quantify it-107 bottles of blood from a floor of office and then cap had to be finally put in due to lack of resources.
If the Blood donation drive was a success- The Impact day was time to celebrate the success which culminated to its full glory when the smiles were shared with the patients.
There are kids who are probably unaware what lies beyond coming to the hospital every fortnight for blood transfusion and getting those needles into their supple skin periodically. There are young ones, adolescents who have subtly accepted the truth of their daily lives and treatments as one of their task in routine life- Never complaining and morose over ruthlessness of God’s verdict.
Many of the patients are exceptional talents-singers, dancers, artists, painters, professionals and why not? They have never considered their disease as anomaly and never looked for sympathy. All they looked out for is love, affection and treatment no different than others and “Arogyadaaanis” were there at St George Hospital, Churchgate for exactly that reason.
Day was theirs. We had one motto-“Give them a day of love, frolic and sweet memories”
We performed songs, dance, skits, and poems, quizzes, played with them without any bias and with gay abandon. The kids were up, parents engrossed, hospital authorities overwhelmed and our hearts infused with satisfaction.
The Deloitte Cap was grossly oversized for the small heads of the patients but they all loved it because of the love that it epitomized.
No activity was done without getting everyone involved be it lunching together or dancing together. Patients were part and parcel of everything that we performed there.
Learning also made a foray in the whole day exercise. Thalassemia is a disease where the patient has to undergo blood transfusion every 15-20 day. The disease is not fully curable but it is definitely preventable. The disease can be prevented out from the unborn baby by a minor screening in pregnancy period. This is one in a lifetime test that needs to be carried out. If none of the parents are a Thalassemic minor- the disease can be forgotten by them else it could be prevented from occurring into the infant.
The day ended by distributing chocolates, caps and goodies to the kids and indelible memories that became "Resident Good" in everybody’s heart. The kids were jovial and we could see little hands waving even when we had boarded the bus and ready to depart.
Those little hands need no sympathy –they need our care and affection and their elixir of life-Blood.
Good job done guys and keep the good work going perpetually.
Please donate blood. Yes, we can’t create life but we can sustain a life.
DheerajLabels: pensive |
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