Healthcare

SPARSH VACHANA - a SPARSH Hospital Initiative

Supported by United Way Bengaluru (UWBe) as one of the partners

The SPARSH Foundation conceived ‘SPARSH VACHANA’ (Vow to provide quality medical care to poor children), an ambitious project that demanded huge skills, great commitment, enormous effort and a sublime meeting of minds.  The plan was to organize a week-long surgical event to operate upon 200 economically backward and underprivileged children with complex Orthopaedic problems. 

Dr. Sharan Patil, Chairman and Chief of Orthopaedic Services - SPARSH, the man behind this truly inspirational and landmark initiative to provide world class Orthopaedic surgeries to the poorest of the poor children in the country, left no stones unturned in his endeavor.

He mobilized a team of International (United States of America and United Kingdom) and Indian doctors which included Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeons, Paediatric Anaesthetists, Nurses and Therapists - a total of 30 specialists.

The team worked round the clock in shifts and conducted operations on the children from 19^th – 25^th October 2009. 

UWBe realized the need and plunged into action to mobilize resources in cash and kind to support SPARSH Vachana.

Mr. Vivek Nagarkatti, Chairman of the Board of UWBe, believes that passionate citizens like Dr. Sharan Patil should be encouraged wholeheartedly by the Civil Society.  

In a short span of 30 days, UWBe reached out to hundreds of people to mobilize resources. One of our Board Members, Ms. Jessy Jacob was proud to declare, “Not even a single person turned down our request to support SPARSH VACHANA”.

Professionals, Companies, Volunteers, Retired people joined hands with UWBe to provide support to the cause. A total of US$ 30,000 was generated locally in a month’s time in both cash and kind to support SPARSH VACHANA. The collected amount was utilized towards the cost of surgery  for these children.