MANGALURU: Humanity works in the most unassuming of ways, even in the midst of a global pandemic, as a 53-year-old woman from Kumpala, on the city’s outskirts, found to her relief. In need of ayurvedic medicine that gave her some relief from the agony of bone cancer, that was in its last stage, she found the same land at her doorsteps, thanks to the Students Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India activists.
Helping these activists were personnel of the fire and emergency services of Kerala and Karnataka. The woman ran out of stock after the lockdown was clamped.
With her children in Bengaluru and husband overseas, procuring the medicine on her own from Palakkad district was not an option for her. When her relative explained her predicament to Madhuri Bolar, a local SFI office-bearer, she intimated the student organisation on the other side of the state border, and they arranged the medicines by contacting Sree Narayana Pharmaceuticals, and handed it over to the Kerala fire and emergency services.
They transported it to Talapady at the Karnataka-Kerala border on Wednesday. The medicines were then taken by the Karnataka fire and emergency services personnel on Thursday. The ayurvedic medicines were vital for her, in that when doctors treating her, had all but given up hope of recovery, its use, based on suggestions given to her by her acquaintances, had allowed the woman to lead a near normal life, and go about her work on her own.
The medicine was available at Sree Narayana Pharmaceuticals Kayarumpara, Ottapalam in Palakkad, and the woman accepted the suggestions to use it, as she had nothing to lose, her relative said. The woman has been taking the medicine since April 2019. A few months since taking the medicine, the woman was also able to drive on her own.
M Randheesh of the Kerala State Youth Commission, Prashanth Kanila of the SFI and the student cadre in Kerala, helped Madhuri with her request.
Helping these activists were personnel of the fire and emergency services of Kerala and Karnataka. The woman ran out of stock after the lockdown was clamped.
With her children in Bengaluru and husband overseas, procuring the medicine on her own from Palakkad district was not an option for her. When her relative explained her predicament to Madhuri Bolar, a local SFI office-bearer, she intimated the student organisation on the other side of the state border, and they arranged the medicines by contacting Sree Narayana Pharmaceuticals, and handed it over to the Kerala fire and emergency services.
They transported it to Talapady at the Karnataka-Kerala border on Wednesday. The medicines were then taken by the Karnataka fire and emergency services personnel on Thursday. The ayurvedic medicines were vital for her, in that when doctors treating her, had all but given up hope of recovery, its use, based on suggestions given to her by her acquaintances, had allowed the woman to lead a near normal life, and go about her work on her own.
The medicine was available at Sree Narayana Pharmaceuticals Kayarumpara, Ottapalam in Palakkad, and the woman accepted the suggestions to use it, as she had nothing to lose, her relative said. The woman has been taking the medicine since April 2019. A few months since taking the medicine, the woman was also able to drive on her own.
M Randheesh of the Kerala State Youth Commission, Prashanth Kanila of the SFI and the student cadre in Kerala, helped Madhuri with her request.
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