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Dental clinic at Singhu border will be among first to get ACs
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Semi-permanent structures being erected will act as waiting room for patients
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The free clinic has been running since the farmers’ agitation began nearly three months ago.
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Shinjini Ghosh
Semi-permanent structures being erected will act as waiting room for patients
The free dental clinic at the Singhu border protest site, which has been running since the agitation began, is set to become one of the first facilities to instal air conditioners to beat the heat.
On Saturday, the clinic started installing semi-permanent structures that will act as a waiting room for patients as well as a stall from where free medicine will be distributed.
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The 64-year-old from Tripura, along with Dr. Ashish Rai Chaudhary, has been attending patients at the Singhu border
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Dr. Kishan Rai (right) and Dr. Ashish Rai Chaudhary at the makeshift hospital at the Singhu border on Friday.
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The 64-year-old from Tripura, along with Dr. Ashish Rai Chaudhary, has been attending patients at the Singhu border
A 64-year-old doctor from Tripura, who is suffering from motor neurone disease, has been offering his services in a makeshift hospital run by Life Care Foundation at the Singhu border since last Sunday. Kishan Rai retired in 2017 from an Agartala hospital as Senior Medical Officer before he started working in public healthcare. Now, Dr. Rai, who claims to have treated more than 700 COVID-19 patients, is doing his bit for the protesting farmers.
Medical services to food, wheels set in motion for tractor parade
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Farmers set up CCTV cameras, libraries inside vehicles for rally on Republic Day
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Farmers set up CCTV cameras, libraries inside vehicles for rally on Republic Day
Besides numerous special tractors, tableaux of makeshift learning centres, measures to keep “outsiders” from infiltrating the site, there is a hospital on wheels as part of the preparations done by hundreds of volunteers for the Kisan Republic Day Parade.
A tractor with the words Kisan Hospital On Wheels written on it is getting ready for the day. It has four beds along with necessary equipment and will go along with the other tractors during the parade. It is being set up by a non-profit organisation (NPO), Life Care Foundation, which has been running a makeshift hospital at the border for three weeks.
120 patients admitted so far at makeshift hospital at Singhu
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Set up by a non-profit organisation, 8-bed hospital is a lifeline for ailing protesters
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Protesting farmers availing of medical facilities at the Life Care Foundation at the Singhu border on Friday. | Photo Credit:
Sushil Kumar Verma
Set up by a non-profit organisation, 8-bed hospital is a lifeline for ailing protesters
Ever since a makeshift hospital was set up at the protest site on the Singhu border, a total of 120 patients have been admitted as on January 21, said Life Care Foundation, a non-profit organisation that started the hospital.