DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
(FROM 1987 OCTOBER ONWARDS)
1. Guntur Heart Association
Founder: Dr.P.Lakshmana Rao garu
Former Professor & Superintendent,
Govt.General Hospital, Guntur .
DETAILS OF GUNTUR HEART ASSOCIATION:
EXECUTIVE BODY UPDATED
A) Permanent President of Guntur Heart Association - District Collector.
B) Permanent Vice President for life time - Dr.P.Lakshmana Rao.
C)Vice presidents:
1)Dr.R.Murali Babu Rao, proffesor of cardiology
2)Sri Y.V.Rao.Member of parliament,Guntur
D)Secretary - Sri S.M.Subhani garu, Retd.Executive Officer, Panchayatraj,Guntur
E)Permanent Treasurer - Union Bank of India, Guntur.
F)Executive Body Members -
1)Dr.Nuthakki Venkateswararao
2)Several elite of guntur
2. CORPUS FUNDS DEVELOPMENT:
1. Rs.2,00,000/- as donation by ILTD., 1988.
2. Rs.2,00,000/- (5,000 Dollars) as donation by Dr.D.V.Satyanarayana garu,
NRI, USA. & Dr.Prasad Kakani, December, 1997.
ACTIVITIES OF GUNTUR HEART ASSOCIATION:
1. Through the interest from corpus funds various activities,
like purchase of emergency medicines for poor, repairs of
various machineries, purchase of any other small items like
lights fans etc., will be routinely being carried out without depending
on government help.
2. Income Tax exemption under 80 G Act has been obtained, and various
local charities will be periodically requested for donations -
any rich person who gets admitted will be requested to donate
for the cause of the poor.
3. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOR GUNTUR HEART ASSOCIATION:
By paying Rs.1,000/- per annum one becomes a member of
Guntur Heart Association and will be eligible for annual
master health cardiac check up. This amount will go into
the corpus funds.LIFE MEMBERSHIP Rs 10,000\-
4. Hundies are being organised at various points like ECG, ECHO &
Treadmill rooms, and the patients will be requested to
contribute their mite however small it is. These hundies
will be opened in presence of Chief Cardiologist, Head Nurse,
Technicians etc., who will all sign and also will be responsible
for the utility of these funds.
5. Various articles like almaras, fans, matrices, wheel chairs,
Air conditioners, voltage stabilisers, emergency trolleys
etc., etc., have been acquired through several philanthropists.
6. Through MP Funds (specially through Sri Rayapati Sambasiva Rao garu)
several essential articles have been purchased like
1. 8 Channel Central Monitoring, with individual bed side monitors.
2. Portable X-Ray machine. Two such machines were purchased and one
was given to general Radiology.
3. HP page writer ECG machine
4. Computer, facilities of Windows-95, Word Star, Ms-Word, Telugu
software etc., inaugurated by Dr.D.V.Satyanarayana garu, NRI USA
on 11-12-97.
5. ICCU Janak Mobile cards and Janak Wheel chairs.
6. Defibrillators.
7. THROMBOLYTIC SCHEME:
This was started on December,1997 by Dr.D.V.Satyanarayana garu
& Dr.Prasad Kakani.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SCHEME:
'
Streptokinase' is being purchased from reputed companies
(for rock bottom price of Rs.1800/-) and being utilised for
the needy cases emergently. Next day the patients are requested
to reimburse the cost into the bank account. Some patients who
cannot afford will be given these drug freely and others will also
be encouraged for partial deposits or however much they can.
The District Collector has sanctioned Rs.1,00,000/- for this
scheme and the monthly reports will be submitted to him regularly
with request to reimburse the deficit money.
The House Surgeons who come for testimonials after the completion
of their course are being requested to deposit their mite into this
account. Few thousands (5 - 6 thousand) have been deposited till now.
8. All the accounts of the Guntur Heart Association are being submitted
for auditing & Income Tax clearances are being obtained regularly.
There is also permanent Auditor in the Executive Body.
9. Image Intensifier with TV Screen (Rs.16,00,000) for pacing purposes
is
being donated by the Indian Tobacco Association Limited commerating
with the Golden Jubilee Independence Day celebrations.
10. Dr.Samala Ramaiah garu, NRI has been kind enough to give 6 BP apparatus
and 1 glucometer (Johnson) these are being utilised excellently.
11. HELPING THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS BY GUNTUR HEART ASSOCIATION:
1. Cots and wooden stools and BP apparatus have been to various departments.
2. Voltage stabiliser & portable X-ray machine have been given to Radiology
department.
3. Railway passes (Concessional fare) is being issued for very poor patients
whenever they are referred to higher centres.
4. Computer assistance for other departments.
5. The imag intensifier with TV screen donated to Guntur Heart Association,
is being put to use by Orthopaedic &other departments
13. Because of the availability of the computer, the cardiology department
can form nucleus for various other departments to liosionize with
NRIs.
14. Internet connection for the computer with collectors funds is being
planned.
DR.P.LAKSHMANA RAO, Founder & First
Professor
& HOD OF CARDIOLOGY FORMED GUNTUR HEART ASSOCIATION
Architects of Guntur Heart Association
Founder President: Sri Jayabharat Reddy the then
Collector and his successes.
Principal Donor: ITC through Sri R.Ramananda Rao,
Area Personal Officer, ITC.,
who was succeded by Sri P.V.J.Raju.
Special attempts have been made as the first and
founder departmental head namely Sri Dr.P.Lakshmana
Rao, to arouse the public awareness about heart
attacks in our society.
The importance of Guntur with its Tobacco trade
which earns a million dollars worth of foreign
exchange per year (80 lacks then) this fact
was highlighted with request that if they spare
one rupee per Kilogram of Tobacco exported
would provide sustenance for the department of
Heart Disease, Guntur both medical & projected
surgical as well as invasive laboratory. This
ratio could be further enhance with the present
cost consideration. It is in the records of the
Guntur General Hospital that the above fact has
been accepted in Principal by the Central
Government to release the grant to the provinsial
Government. The present MP Sri Y.V.Rao has
graciously agreed to follow the line. Dr.Murali
Babu Rao may pursue the matter.
DR.NUTHAKKI VENKATESWAR RAO GARU -
A MAN OF GREAT VISION
- Person with unflinching dynamism.
- Great source of inspiration for youngsters.
- Always interested in development for the
cause of the poor.
- Ready to help any department.
- Excellent liason between NRIs and GGH., &
GMC
I wish we have 1/10 th of his dynamism!!!
message of Dr.N.V.Rao
The year 1998 - 2000 has seen lot of development in
Government General Hospital, Guntur by way of
improvement in the sanitation and equipping the
departments of Cardiology, Radiology, Radiotherapy,
Gynic, Paediatrics and Casualty. A good facelift
was also given to the existing corridors and clinical
lecture gallery. The adding of facility of providing
biochemistry equipment has added to giving quick
results. A new emergency operation theatre was built
at a cost of 48,000 dollars which was exclusively
funded by Dr.Babu Prasad and Dr.Mrs.Sudha. The
Radiology department was adequately equip by providing
a 500 mA and 300 mA X-ray plant with added imaging
facility to the 300 mA plant. The above equipment was
donated by the GMCANA. The Paediatric department
received from the GMCANA Paediatric ventillator, pulse
oxymeter infant warmors along with Heliotheraphy. The
department of cardiology received Image Intensifier
with TV screen donated by Indian Tobacco Association.
A special note must be made about the department of
cardiology which is being very well managed and
maintained by the professor & Head of the Department
of Cardiology Dr.R.Murali Babu Rao inspite of many
handicaps by way of acute shortage of qualified
medical personale & equipment. Inspite of his very
busy work Dr.R.Murali Babu Rao is the only professor
from Government General Hospital, Guntur who presents
regularly research papers in National & International
Conferences. I wish the other departmental professors
also take to academic work and present papers in
atleast the National Conferences.
In Cardiology Department the increasing load of work
is very well attended to especially due to an account
of the excellent turning out of the workload very
smoothly by Dr.J.Venkateswara Rao MD., the Seniormost
Assistant Professor and also to some extent by
Dr.N.G.Mohanarjun, MD.,DM., Assistant Professor of
Cardiology. The equipment received by the department
from the MP funds, the GMCANA and other philonthropic
body is looked after excellently. If 5 or 6 more unit
chiefs take as much care as Dr.R.Murali Babu Rao in
maintaining the care of the equipment received, the
hospital will be able to deliver better quality of
care. The present Superintendent Dr.K.Anji Reddy is
trying to do his best to improve the facilities in
the hospital. This was possible because of the
increase in the budget of the hospital and by way of
providing adequate funds by the Government and the
munificent donations received from the MPs & other
generous public and association.
AGE IS NO BAR FOR DEVELOPMENT & DYNAMISM -
SRI S.M.SUBHANI GARU OUR SECRETARY
GUNTUR HEART ASSOCIATION
Sri S.M.Subhani garu,Retd.Executive Officer of
Panchayat Raj, is the Secretary for Guntur
Heart Association. He is elected unanimously
every year. His zeal and the bubbling
enthusiasm in development of the Cardiology
department is to be seem to be believed.
Whenever there is need to purchase the Medicines,
repairs of any machines, and any other intricate
and vital works in the department, he is always
there to take care. He regularly communicates
with the staff and Head Nurse of our department
to findout the day today needs in the wards and
attends to them promptly. The hundies are
opened in his presence and, the necessary
utility of these funds will be done by him and
accounted for. All bank transactions concerned
with the different accounts of Guntur Heart
Association are taken care by him. He is down
to the core dependable honest and sincere. His
services continue to be invaluable for Guntur
Heart Association.
