Cancer Hospital

[rkumar]

Dear Friends,

After working in Cancer Hospital at AIIMS, New Delhi for 20 years and knwoing the plight of patients coming from Roral belts of Haryana and UP, I realised what it takes for an average farmer family to get its patient treated. Often they give up treatment for want of resources..don't have money left even to meet travel needs.

I have decided to build a Cancer Hospital near Shamli, Distt. Muzaffar Nagar. I have acquired two acres of land for this purpose and plan to start the construction by year end. I know the project is very expensive to execute and often even govt fails to accomplish the task, but with God's grace I am sure I will make it. I wish to use all the principles of Gandhian way of life to run the hospital and provide most modern treatment to all those who will need it...

[amitshokeen]

sir
it's great nouble cause. I think everyone should do some contribution to this process you have started in whatever way we can.

Great Job

Amit

[sweet]

Amit Shokeen (Apr 01, 2003 12:09 p.m.):
sir
it's great nouble cause. I think everyone should do some contribution to this process you have started in whatever way we can.

Great Job

Amit
Hi, Amit ji, dont mind please, but why dont u start contributing in this great work, well u r sitting abroad, so shud do something for your own country, its really a great job.

regards.

[sweet]

hi, Rajender ji,

really great job, ya, everybody shoud do this type of progressive work,
i want to say this that now i am student, & a medical student, so whenever u feel like my help or contribution in this great work, i am always ready, well i can't contribute financially right now, because i am myself a student yet, but i can help, doing volenteer work, or employment work,
looking forward to c u again,
good luck,

keep ur motivation up,
regards.

[rkumar]

sweet (Apr 01, 2003 09:08 p.m.):
hi, Rajender ji,

really great job, ya, everybody shoud do this type of progressive work,
i want to say this that now i am student, & a medical student, so whenever u feel like my help or contribution in this great work, i am always ready, well i can't contribute financially right now, because i am myself a student yet, but i can help, doing volenteer work, or employment work,
looking forward to c u again,
good luck,

keep ur motivation up,
regards.

Thank you very much Sweet. It is heartening to read your response. Let me share something with you here. Most of the doctors coming from rural areas do not wish to work in rural areas. The reasons are many ofcourse like lack of infrastructure, schooling for their kids and many more...but question arises, who will creat the infrastucture for them? This is egg and chicken story..My own wife is a Sr Gynaecologist and elder daughter also a medico and neither is willing to spend a day every week in rural areas....But this does not distract me from my responsibility towards society. Some one has to do it and why can't that some one be me??? After seeing whole world many times over I reached to the conclusion that unless our roots are healthy, the branches can not be healthy.. does not matter how great we are in far away land... If Bill Gates finds India worth investing, surely we jats must rethink abandoning our roots in villages.. Any way I am on it...I am very clear where the future is...

[savita_s]

Dear Rajender ji,

This is a really great noble thing that you are doing..... It is not everyday that someone takes the initiative to make such a big contribution to society. It's quite inspiring and wish you all the best..

[amitshokeen]

Hi Sweet
Donot make people sitting abroad as a soft target for not doing much. How many of you living in india do much help. I think Mr Rajendar ji has come with an idea ,which still need to be implemented. Helping part comes ones the project start.You can only give encouragement when some is thinking of doing some thing good. Most of the good thought end up in mind only becuase of the lack of encouragement whether by parents, society, or friends.When the help is needed in another from . i will provide that too.
As Mr Rajendar as has Many doctor donot opt to work in rural area once they graduate and i would like to see ur decision once u graduate.
So Stop critizing other people and DO YOUR PART FIRST

Amit

[mbamal]

Rajendra Jee,

My Best Wishes for your noble cause...ppl like you restore my faith in goodness of life...Good people like you do exist in society and If feels so gr8 to hear about such ventures taken by ppl like you in much wider interest of our rural community...Hats off to you...Best wishes again...

Regards,
Mandeep

[artikundu]

it is very easy to criticize others and very difficult to look into urself.why don't u look into urself before u blame other people.i find it very strange that instead of telling u so many times by other members to reveal ur name or identity u r not doing that one.are u ashamed of calling urself jat if not then why don't u post ur mails by ur name only and why it is sweet all the time.i mean to say it looks funny so if u don't mind culd we expect that u will write from ur original name so that atleast we know that u r guy or a gal.








sweet (Apr 01, 2003 09:04 p.m.):
Amit Shokeen (Apr 01, 2003 12:09 p.m.):
sir
it's great nouble cause. I think everyone should do some contribution to this process you have started in whatever way we can.

Great Job

Amit
Hi, Amit ji, dont mind please, but why dont u start contributing in this great work, well u r sitting abroad, so shud do something for your own country, its really a great job.

regards.

[kharub]

Dear Rajendra Ji,

Congratulations on this noble venture and may god grant you all the happiness and comfort in life for contributing so meaningfully to our society.

There are a very few people who have the guts to undertake such a mission for the good of others.
And you have proved yourself to be one such noble soul.

I extend my full support to you and offer to help you in this cause where ever you need my assistance.

May God bless you,

VJ Kharub

[rkumar]

Dear friends,

Just to update you , we are starting the construction of this hospital on 27th March 2005..The site is near the Balwa gate, just before Lilone village near Shamli and falls exactly on Delhi Saharanpur Highway..If anyone of you happen to be around that place on the day, please do drop in at 11 am for Bhoomi Poojan....I will keep you all updated as we progress...

Regards
Rajendra

[devdahiya]

MY DEAR RAJENDRA JI,

MY best wishes are with you and i am sanguine that you will do a wonderful job of it..........................that reminds me of a great saying and i quote," ONLY A HANDFUL OF THE MORTALS ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE EXISTING CONDITIONS." UNQUOTE.................GOD SPEED..!..............IF I CAN BE OF ANY ASSISTANT,THE PLEASURE WILL BE MINE.....BEST OF LUCK.






DEV

[bsmanderna]

Dear Dr. Rajender Jee,
a very great and noble idea which you are going to explore and turn into a reality. The plight of rural people can not be addressed more better by anything else than this dedicated work of yours. you are realising the dreams into reality, it will require lote of guts and grit. may the almighty grant you all that is required to accomplish this noble mission.
wish you a great success, carry on------------------------success is yours.
service to people is service to god.
any help from this police officer working on United Nations Mission, you are always welcome.
Good Luck.

[rkumar]

Dear Friends,

We are planning to bring out a souvneir on the occasion. Time is short and I am rushing through as much as I can. My dream is to see this as one of the well equipped cancer hospital in the Jat belt..I know it requires crores and crores to set up and then run such hospitals..I have very strong faith that your good wishes will amount to much more than anything...Please do drop in if anyone of you are around shamli that day....

Regards
rajendra

[drrajpoonia]

hello rajendera
u r going for agreat work.this is reality now that no body wants to go in rural part.u carry on god ll help u .

[raj2rif]

Dear Rajendra Ji,

Excellent idea. The community needs commitment like yours. We wish you a great success in your project.

[anilkc]

Congrats Rajendra Ji for taking such a giant step!
Since, its aimed at poor rural jats (but I assume ppl from all over India will come if its a success), I dont expect that they will pay for the expensive services. So, can you share your thoughts on how u r going to fund it and run it?
2 well known such initiatives that come to my mind are that by Sunil Dutt and Imran Khan. Both needed huge grants from govt and funds from well connected friends apart from personal resources. Imrans hospital is still struggling even with huge donations from all over the world and voulantry work by many doctors. If you can share some more info abt ur vision and some hard facts like when, how and who can voulanteer, what work needs to be done and whats been taken care of and where u need help, how can we donate etc.

Does ur effort has a web site ? Its a great way to get updated info and let the word out. Many more ppl other than jats too may be interested in sharing your burden.

Apart from curing the disease, its also important to inform ppl abt healthy living. Not only no drugs, paan, bidi, daru etc but also abt clean environment, how to handle chemicals in farm, etc. The hospital can be the center for such education among the surrounding rural area.

good luck!

[rkumar]

Hi Anil,

I subscribe to the policy that everyone can pay for the services rendered. The payment need not always be in terms of cash. It can be in kind. The kind in case of this hospital would be service for the service in case of people who can not afford. If really a poor farmer comes for treatment, I would expect his able son/ brother or any other relative to maintain the garden of the hospital in return for the treatment we do for his father. Anyone who can not afford to pay, will have to contribute towards the manual jobs in hospital. Such methods of charging are possible in rural area..If some one is not willing to contribue even his labour..I have many other noble ideas of keeping the costs low..would share as we progress...Right now my focus is onto the building construction.. Also I want to get involed College boys part time for clerical jobs..This would give them some pocket money and experience as well.. I would be conducting some paramedical and other courses as well as we get stability...Going with a begging bowl will be my last resort and I would never do it. There is a difference between Mr Imran Khan and me..I know what are the tricks of this trade and what all is really necessary for effective treatment..people like Imran Khan end up spending 80% of their money on equipments which are required only in 20% of the cases..I would prefer to send such cases to AIIMS...My aim is to use my 20% resources to treat 80% of the cases and not otherway round..Anyway, there will be some interesting experiments in economics at this centre..Let us see how things go...I am keeping my fingers crossed. As of now, all I know is that the people need this facility very badly and some one has to do it..I am just trying my best to be that some one..

Rajendra

[ramsarya]

Dear Rajendra ji:
Congatulations and best wishes for taking up such an exhasting but rewarding work. I wish you all the success.

[dr.vinod]

Dear sir,
You are doing a very novel work........kindly accept my best wishes for your project. I will feel privileged if I can be of any help for your ongoing project.
With warm regards & best wishes,
Vinod

[rkumar]

Dear Friends,

The foundation stone of the hospital has been laid on 3rd April 2005 by Shri Virendra Verma, ex Governor Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The event was well covered by all major and minor news papers of western UP. Here is the link to Amar Ujala;

http://www.amarujala.com/archive/fullnews.asp?filename=03mngmr4Csd&id=3185655&cat=up&pda=%204%20/04/2005&ci=mng&day=04&dis=âô×ßæÚ&mdis=¥ÂýðÜ&yy=2005

denik jagarna of 4th April 2005 covered the event in detail along with photographs. Function was attened by about 2000 people from the area.

Rajendra

[singhkapoor]

Rajendra Ji

Congratulations on this stupendous effort and for adding a very distinctive feather in your cap.

I was delighted to read the news. Founding a cancer hospital is no duck soup; it needs not only money but also gumption, boldness of enterprise and a lot of heart.

Our best wishes are with you for fulfilling this enormous responsibility.

NAJC
North American Jat Charities
www.najcharities.org

[jagmohan]

Rajendra Ji,

Many many congratulations for the tremendous effort and starting a project for the welfare of the poor and needy. This project would prove to be a trail blazer for the rest of the community. I have no doubt that The Cancer Hospital would help mitigate the sufferings of many.

I hope I become capable soon enough to help in whichever way I can.

Warmest regards & congratulations once again.

JS Malik

[anujkumar]

Amaging!

Congratulation and best wishes.

[stokas]

Dear Rajendra Ji,

My heartiest congratulations for a noble cause.

You are proving a famous quote:
Strength does not come from physical capacity; it comes from an indomitable will.

[sandeepphogat]

hello rajender uncle ji
congratulation for this noble cause and i wish to god that u are able to do ur work on time. i am pharmacy graduate so i want to do some volunteer work in ur mission but right now i m in australia when i come back india than i definately involve in this noble cause so mean time i can give u moral support for this work.

[ramksehrawat]

My heartiest congratulations for this noble cause, Rajendraji. I admire your efforts for improving the medical facilities in rural area which I am sure will go a long way.

[teotiasunil]

rajendra sir,
It is indeed a great work for our "jaanam bhumi".

[achalsingh]

Respected Rajendra Sir, It is your noble gesture for a great cause.I strongly believe that expert doctors and machines are required to detect/diagnose cancer.and lot of councelling is required for patient family to face the trauma.I want to extend my help(I am running a engineering and steel fabrication unit in noida)or even i can stand there for any work that you assign.Also It is my dream to start a trauma/councelling centre for cancer patients in Modinagar/my village RORI. Regards - Achal Singh

[sumitsehrawat]

Rajendraji,

Congratulations!!

It has been a tremendous effort from your side.
I, along with all my friends, pray for the future of this Cancer hospital.

My heartiest wishes to all those invloved in this project.

Regards,
Sumit

[mukeshkumar007]

Dear Uncle ji,,
Congratulation....

It is really a great job for the help of poor people in rural area.. We wish to God for the success of this project.

Best of luck....

[ramsarya]

Dear Rajendra ji: Congratulations for accomplishing such a stupendous job. I hope this hospital will serve as an inspiration for lots of other rural hospitals to come. Real blessings will come from the patients, however our best wishes are with you.

[dr.vinod]

Dear Sir,
Kindly accept my heartiest congratulations and good luck for your project.
with warm regards,
vinod

[shooraashok]

Congratulation And Best Wishes...

[saharawat]

Dear Rajendra Ji,

Many Congratulations on this great work.

As VJ Kharub said there are a very few people who have the guts to undertake such a mission for the good of others. It is very easy to give advice and wish for the success of any assignment. But what is matter, it is the initiatives and very few people here who are willing to take the action and devote his time in the service of society rather than personal life.

In the rural area, the big problem is that the people don’t take the illness seriously. First they just try the less qualified local doctor medicine and when it is too late they go to the good doctor when it is too late. I have seen 3 cases around myself where they suffered serious illness and did not consult a qualified doctor.

In the end they spend more money what they have saved consulting a less qualified local doctor. Definitely the poorness, ignorant and money plays a big role. May be I do the same what you did………

I extend my full support to you and offer to help you in this cause where ever I can do.

[haritta]

congratulations and hope u get great sucess in this venture. I know u dont need any help but if u do please dont hesitate to ask. I am sure as a community we can all come together in this venture to make it a sucess. good luck and best wishes.

baljit

[rkumar]

Many thanks to each one of you. Building and running a Cancer hospital is extremely difficult task. However, someone needs to do it.. We can not follow the convenetional models in rural India as costs would be just prohibitive. I would be experimenting with hosts of cost cutting ideas to build and run this hospital..Let us see how far it would work out...I have very strong conviction that the ideas would not only work, they would produce better results. Who knows, some day our model may be adopted by WHO ...

RK^2

[punia]

:) Dear Rajinder ji
Congratulations. Our heartiest good wishes to you and also to all other involved in this noble cause and wonderful mission.

[positivelook]

Dear Sir
It always gives strength to me when i see people like u who are abroad and still thinks abt our roots.
This cause is definitely a noble cause and i really like to thanks you 4 this work u have taken in ur hands. If we all contribute a little bit toward our community it will definitely improvre the life of people in our rural areas. One more thing i want to mention here is that i hope like all other people you are not building this hospital for business purpose. So i if this is really a charity work whenever u require our help we are ready to contribute whatever we can for this cause.
Thankyou again for raising the flag.

ABhimanyu

Jats! the real tigers.

[rkumar]

Dear Sir
It always gives strength to me when i see people like u who are abroad and still thinks abt our roots.
This cause is definitely a noble cause and i really like to thanks you 4 this work u have taken in ur hands. If we all contribute a little bit toward our community it will definitely improvre the life of people in our rural areas. One more thing i want to mention here is that i hope like all other people you are not building this hospital for business purpose. So i if this is really a charity work whenever u require our help we are ready to contribute whatever we can for this cause.
Thankyou again for raising the flag.

ABhimanyu

Jats! the real tigers.

There is no business element in this project. We will do our best to treat all poor farmers and others free of charge. We will levy some charges only on those who can afford it.

Rajendra

[narender_malik]

RK Kalkhande Sahab
It is really very inspiring____agar sabhi Jat aap ki tarah sochne lag jaye to hamari jat kaum ka bhala jaldi hi ho jaye, jo kaam aap karne ja rahe hain vo bhagwan ka naam lene se bhi achha hai......asli samaj seva isko kahte hain..

bhagwan aap ko kamyabi de

Ram Ram

Narender

[rkumar]

Cancer among farmers is rising globally. A simple google search would open the eyes of anyone. As populations increase, demand on food supply will increase. Occupational hazards in farming need very close watch. Aim of this Cancer Centre would be to focus on the cancer among farmers and come out with preventive education in addition to the treatment. Often we talk of AIDS becoming epidemic and ignore other diseases. During my career I have seen manifold rise of cancer among farmers from western UP, Haryana and Punjab. When there are pressure groups for breast cancer in urban India, nothing of the sort exists for farmers. At this centre we will work to raise awareness among farmers not only in India but Internationally... This however, does not mean that we will shut the doors of this hospital to others.

Rajendra

[drrajpoonia]

hello rajendera ji
u r doing gret task,as being a doctor,i think this is the best way to serve the poor people,i mean those live in rural part of india.b/c they cann`t affort expence in matro hospitals,

if u want to discuss this issue to cancer expert doctor,i know one of kindful man, dr d.p.poonia,he is a principal ,director and dean of s.p.medical college and associated hospital bikaner, rajasthan,

in terms of cancer regional centre in india,bikaner hospital one of them,

regards
best of luck

[vinodkaliramna]

I would firstly like to appreciate the guts and the responsibility towards the society of Mr Rajenderji.
A heartfelt congratulations Sir,

I am in Bangalore but we have a handful of Jat friends here who will get together to do whatever possible . Lets look at the reality as mentioned by many above that we definitely need funds. It is not possible for some individual to go and make a hospital on his own.We got to join hands to get it done .. So I appeal to all the people across the country and the globe that they all contribute towards the cause.

I am not sure if it’s a good idea but if we could have a place where we could submit our contributions. Let me tell something, at times we feel that a little contribution of mine is not going to make any difference, but it will surely do. When we can do it for Tsunami, Gujrat Quake, why not now.it is equally important .So lets start collecting and make this dream a successful reality.

Sir can we have some place where we can drop in our contributions.

Kindly advise ….

[rkumar]

I would firstly like to appreciate the guts and the responsibility towards the society of Mr Rajenderji.
A heartfelt congratulations Sir,

I am in Bangalore but we have a handful of Jat friends here who will get together to do whatever possible . Lets look at the reality as mentioned by many above that we definitely need funds. It is not possible for some individual to go and make a hospital on his own.We got to join hands to get it done .. So I appeal to all the people across the country and the globe that they all contribute towards the cause.

I am not sure if it’s a good idea but if we could have a place where we could submit our contributions. Let me tell something, at times we feel that a little contribution of mine is not going to make any difference, but it will surely do. When we can do it for Tsunami, Gujrat Quake, why not now.it is equally important .So lets start collecting and make this dream a successful reality.

Sir can we have some place where we can drop in our contributions.

Kindly advise ….

Dear Vinod,

Really appreciate your feelings. I know, we would need large amounts of funds and no individual is resourceful enough to run such hospitals alone. However, let me prove my commitment first by putting my own resources, which include my savings, my future earnings and my other professional skills. Let people feel that I am truely committed to the cause and then decide if I deserve their support to provide them the best in the world. Till such time all I need is your good wishes and blessings.

Regards
Rajendra

[vinodkaliramna]

Those come unsaid Sir ..But I will do what I have planned and would like to be in touch. I am from Samalkha, Panipat and if I understand it is not very far from Shamli. Will try to come and visit you inn person sometime when I am back home.

Please confirm the address if you can.

[nvedwan]

Dear Rajendra Ji,
Congratulations and best wishes for embarking on this much-needed and ambitious endeavor. As you pointed out, this project can be a model for cost-effective, community-based medicine, which is what we need in the Indian context if we are to make health care accessible to all and not just a handful of wealthy people. As it will probably be a while before clinical services can be offered, I am wondering if you have any plans, for the interim, of designing and implementing outreach and education efforts which can help people avoid/minimize exposure to carcinogens and environmental hazards, and take precautionary measures. I will be very interested in working and contributing to such efforts--most likely conceptually, but in other ways as well. Maybe a pilot-scale effort can be organized which can help improve our understanding of the magnitude of the problem and its demographic characteristics, etc. I wonder if there are any epidemiological studies done in the region which can provide a good starting point for these efforts?

[rkumar]

Dear Rajendra Ji,
Congratulations and best wishes for embarking on this much-needed and ambitious endeavor. As you pointed out, this project can be a model for cost-effective, community-based medicine, which is what we need in the Indian context if we are to make health care accessible to all and not just a handful of wealthy people. As it will probably be a while before clinical services can be offered, I am wondering if you have any plans, for the interim, of designing and implementing outreach and education efforts which can help people avoid/minimize exposure to carcinogens and environmental hazards, and take precautionary measures. I will be very interested in working and contributing to such efforts--most likely conceptually, but in other ways as well. Maybe a pilot-scale effort can be organized which can help improve our understanding of the magnitude of the problem and its demographic characteristics, etc. I wonder if there are any epidemiological studies done in the region which can provide a good starting point for these efforts?

Dear Neeraj,
My plan is to start the cancer prevention education programmes by the year end. There are lots of epidemiological studies on cancer among american farmers. There is one report on Punjab farmers as well. However, there is no study on farmers from rest of the India. We will be establishing a population based cancer registry at this hospital. Major efforts will be on prevetive aspects and then on early detection which are most cost effective ways to deal with the problem. One thing is almost certain that the cancer among farmers is increasing at alarming rate. Use of fertilizers, pesicides and presence of heavy metals in deep bore wells is a major contributor to this. combination of smoking and alcohol is another factor. Systematic studies are required to analyse the problem. I have many plans. Let us see how far we succeed in addressing the issue. We will be starting news letter in hindi on cancer education which will be freely distributed to all panchayats and schools in rural area. Personally I will cover 3-4 villages every week to spread the message. Whole process should take momentum by the middle of next year when I move back to India.

Rajendra

[stokas]

It's really nice to know that Dr. Saahab,

Keep on moving; we are with you.




Shailendra Tokas

[stokas]

Dear Friends,

The foundation stone of the hospital has been laid on 3rd April 2005 by Shri Virendra Verma, ex Governor Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The event was well covered by all major and minor news papers of western UP. Here is the link to Amar Ujala;

http://www.amarujala.com/archive/fullnews.asp?filename=03mngmr4Csd&id=3185655&cat=up&pda=%204%20/04/2005&ci=mng&day=04&dis=âô×ßæÚ&mdis=¥ÂýðÜ&yy=2005

denik jagarna of 4th April 2005 covered the event in detail along with photographs. Function was attened by about 2000 people from the area.

Rajendra


Hello Dr. Saahab,

Is 'Manvendra Verma' - which I read in the news, you provided the link to - the same; who is an advocate and currently practicing in Delhi and I think, he is also from Shamli?

Shailendra

[deepender]

Phuphaji,

Cancer in our farming community is gaining serious proportions and a short stay in one of our villages should be enough for anyone to grasp the nature of the beast you've aimed to tackle. Your pioneering effort surely has identified the need of this hour. Also, I see this as a 'first' in truly understanding the health care needs of our rural communities. We could do with many more 'firsts' to address needs of our rural/farming community.
What makes your effort all the more inspiring is that this has forced each one of us to wake up and think about our broader goals in our life. And that, I feel, is the beginning of something much bigger. Like JFK once said,"Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country?" Some of us, the properous sons & daughters of India, but living abroad for our own selfish interests, need to answer this question. It is truly inpspiring to see that you've answered this; and have indeed answered it supremely well. Whatever happens from here on will, I believe, be judged trivial.

Deepender Hooda