Friends

Hope you don't mind these frequent mails from me on this topic. Just wanted
to share a mail from my friend Dr. Kishlay Anand. I sought his help not only
a a close friend but also someone who can really make a difference.

Just to introduce Kishlay. He is a great doctor, entrepreneur and
humanitarian as well and of course has really illustrious career and someone
who can follow in our great Dr. AKN Sinha traditions. Educated at Don
Bosco,Patna then DPS RK Puram , then AIIMS,Delhi . Columbia University,NYC
and most recently finished his residency at Creighton, Omaha

Please see his mail below, if only we can get enough volunteers on the
ground then he and others like him can really make a difference. One of the
mistakes we need to learn from past is that inspite of knowing the scourage
of flood in advance we (Bihar) didn't prepare in advance.

Now we can at least prepare for the post-flood causalities due to
communicable diseases and lack of clean water rather than waiting for a
major outbreak


Regards
Atul



On 8/6/07, Kishlay Anand <kishlay_anand@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> One of the key problem faced by masses in this situation arises due to the
> lack of clean water leading to problems like diarrhea and dehydration. If we
> can raise some money from the community to fund clean water, food items and
> essential antibiotics (quinolones), paracetamol, that would be a simple but
> worth while effort. If we can form a network with local health care
> providers to distribute these items. We can basic educational materials to
> educatre volunteer on the ground and help them to identify common illnesses
> and provide simple symptomatic treatment.
>
> I am willing to help with money and time.
>
> Best,
> Kishlay Anand MD, MS
> The Cardiac Center,
> Creighton University,
> Omaha, NE.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Atul Kumar <atultech@...>
> *To:* kishlay_anand@... ; shailendra kishore <docshail@...>;
abhishek
> sinha <docabhisheksinha@...>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 06, 2007 8:00 PM
> *Subject:* Fwd: [Bihari] Digest Number 2347
>
> Kishlaya, Shailendra and Abhishek
>
> please see if something can be done via the doctor community besides
> whatever govt and relief agencies are doing .. just to introduce you three
> .. the only connection you three share besides being my friend's is that you
> are doctors from patna .. will send detailed intro in a while .. in the
> tradition of our great Dr. AKN Sinha you can make a difference ..
>
> cheers
> atul
> +1 203 512 6749
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Atul Kumar < atultech@... <atultech@...+>>
> Date: Aug 6, 2007 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bihari] Digest Number 2347
> To: Dr Ravi Chandra <rchandra1231@...>, tanyaprasad@...,
> Chandan Singh <csingh@...>
> Cc: m_varma <m_varma@...>, sarojk@..., Mayank Krishna <
> mayank.krishna@...>, Naveen Sharma <naveenshar@...>,
> rajiv.vidyarthy@..., Thakur Vikas Sinha <tvsinha@...>, Samir
> Kumar Mishra <samirmishra@...>, Rahul Kumar Barnwal <
> rahul.barnwal@...>
>
> Tanya Hi
>
> Ravi being at Bhagalpur and having a local presence can surely help. Also
> his project, "Bihar Development Trust" is building ground level network in
> the area of micro-finance etc so is closely aligned.
>
> Chandan is a close friend at Patna who has been the anchor and pillar of
> all our projects there. Already on the road to help in the affected areas.
> Between Ravi and Chandan, guess we have enough local presence to deliver
> whatever support.
>
> Ravi and Chandan: hope you don't mind our taking the liberty to leverage
> your names and local presence there.
>
>
> Of course you can also count on Mayank, Rajiv and others at Mumbai for
> supporting your collection efforts at Mumbai. Am marking Saroj who is one
> of the founding/core members of Bihari group, currently in California but
> has past experience in this area and also some views/ideas on what
> would/should work and what wouldn't. So in case you are still ready for a
> drive at Mumbai then can count on these members. Mayank, Rajiv and others am
> taking this liberty of throwing your names here though know are relatively
> busy these days
>
> Am marking the mail to couple of other friends like Naveen at Bangalore,
> Ajeet at Mysore who have also been working in the background and might have
> other references ideas to share.
>
> Verma jee/sir, marking you also since you are already making some efforts
> via CARE, UNICEF and via bihareebabu and gave the wake-up call to many of
> us. thanks for waking us up from the slumber.
>
>
> Regards
> Atul
>
> FYI
> TVS at Mumbai
> Rahul at Delhi (has different views on relief efforts but still )
> Samir at Australia
>
> On 8/6/07, Dr Ravi Chandra <rchandra1231@... > wrote:
> >
> > dear friends,
> >
> > I was thinking of provided relief but have no resources.
> > if we all can organise materials like tents, polythenes, blankets, we
> > will distribute to needy .
> > we are based at bhagalpur and can move with materials when it arrives
> > with the help of our team members.
> > to know more about us, please click on link below our e mailid.
> >
> > ravi
> >
> >
> > Dr Ravi Chandra
> > Director
> > 9334308432
> > Bihar Development Trust
> > rchandra1231@...
> > bihardev@...
> > http://romanticirman.blogspot.com/2007/07/bihar-development-trust.html
> > <http://romanticirman.blogspot.com/2007/07/bihar-development-trusthtml>
> > http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=34946028
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
>
>
> --
> Atul Kumar
> +1 203 512 6749
> NY/NJ,USA
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/atulkumar
>
> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/atulkumar>


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