MS-qualified doctor has been camping with the farmers for the last 45 days, giving them free checkups
BATHINDA: Delhi’s Tikri border is now second home to American cardiologist Dr Swaiman Singh. Leaving behind a three-year fellowship at New Jersey in US, this MS-qualified doctor is camping with the farmers for the past 45 days, giving them free checkup, books, and night stay, besides helping clean up the protest site.
Settled in the US for 24 years, he leads the ‘5 Rivers Heart Association’ that responds to healthcare and education crisis by holding medical camps and distributing educational material. With ‘protect our farmers’ as the new motto, his volunteer organisation has set up night shelter Pind California for 4,000 protesters, women mainly. His father, Jaswinder Pal Singh, now a lawyer in the US, was one of the founders of the Students’ Federation of India in Punjab, while his mother, Surinder Kaur, moved from student politics to being a librarian in the US.