3-in-1 medical facility in Guwahati

Assam health minister Keshab Mahanta inaugurated three ­state-of-art facilities — a blood bank, an eye hospital and a ­physiotherapy unit — at the KGMT Hospital, ­Guwahati, in the presence of DG Nilesh Agarwal, PDGs Manas  Chaudhuri, Kalpana Khound and Debashish Das.

DG Nilesh Agarwal (seventh from R) with PDGs Prabhat Kedia, Kalpana Khound, Debashish Das, Manas Chaudhuri and project primary contact Budhin Barthakur after the inauguration of the facilities at the KGMT Hospital, Guwahati.

The facilities were set up by RID 3240 at around ₹2 crore through a global grant project with RID 3282, Bangladesh, as partner. During his tenure as governor in 2019–20, PDG Das initiated the project with $30,000 as a Directed Gift to form a seed fund for the GG project.

Later, a committee was formed with Budhin Borthakur as the primary contact. PDGs Arvind Phukan (from the US), N N Dutta, Prabhat Kedia and Arijit Endow, Dr Anil Mahanta and other Rotarians from all the eight clubs in Guwahati had worked for the success of the  medical project.

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