TIRUNELVELI: Orthopaedic surgeon S. Ramaguru, who received the Best Doctor Award from Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi during the Independence Day celebrations in Chennai last Sunday, is all set to conduct the second round of surgeries to improve the living conditions of cerebral palsy children.
When Dr. Ramaguru brought country's leading neurosurgeon Aniruddh K. Purohit to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital on October 8, 2007 to perform free surgeries after a screening camp conducted by him to identify the real beneficiaries, 100 children with spastic paralysis got new lease of life.
Motivating
Encouraged by the results and motivated by the recent award given by the State Government, he has started the spadework for conducting yet another camp for the benefit of children affected by cerebral palsy.
“We've already started the exercise to identify a major sponsor so that the screening camp as well as the surgeries can be conducted without any problem. After the screening camp to be organised before December-end, we've planned to conduct corrective surgeries during February 2011,” Dr. Ramaguru told ‘The Hindu' on Wednesday.
The orthopaedic surgeon, who used to perform free surgeries every year to save lepers from possible amputation of limbs, is on the look out for the probable patients so that those surgeries can be conducted before November this year.
“On behalf of ‘Kudisai' (an NGO floated by him), we are organising a free medical camp and a blood donation camp at Sankarankovil on August 21, in which a good number of specialists are participating,” Dr. Ramaguru said.
The other side of this orthopaedic surgeon is so interesting as he, through ‘Kudisai,' is conducting anti-plastic campaign by releasing informative pamphlets detailing the threat being posed by this highly hazardous material to the environment.
“We've chalked out plans to intensify this campaign,” Dr. Ramaguru noted
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