Day: October 7, 2024
Project Vignettes – October 2024
Dr Prithika Chari, past president of RC Madras Temple City, was the first neurologist (she is a qualified neuro surgeon too) to join the Apollo Hospitals in Chennai.
Club Matters – October 2024
School uniforms were distributed to children at a government school with project chairperson Shalini Singhal coordinating the event.
Letters to the Editor – October 2024
I am past president of my club. Your article on diagnosis of breast cancer (September issue) is interesting and it is news to me
Mobile cancer care screens 4,000 women
The mammography bus had come to her neighbouring village near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, to screen women for breast and cervical cancer. “I was asymptomatic, hence did not feel the need to go through such a medical procedure. But following an awareness campaign by Rotarians, I went for the screening inside the diagnostic bus. I was shocked to know that I had an early-stage cancerous lesion on the cervix.” She then underwent a minor surgery to remove the lesion at a hospital in Coimbatore. Ditto is the case of Rani (58), her friend, who was detected with a tumorous lump in her breast at the Rotary camp.
Books and essentials make children happy
In an outreach to socially disadvantaged students, RC Nagpur South East, RID 3030, distributed 6,000 books, 300 school bags, 500 water bottles, 300 lunch boxes, 300 geometry boxes and 175 uniforms to students in 23 zilla parishad and five urban schools in and around Nagpur.
Adult diapers for old age homes
The Rotary Club of Mapusa Elegance, RID 3170, has launched a programme to provide adult diapers to old age homes in and around Goa.