Vadodara: Partth Thakur, founder of The Wishing Factory (TWF) – an NGO for thalassaemia patients – passed away at a hospital in the early hours of Sunday.
Thakur, 25, was a thalassaemia patient himself and was admitted to a hospital with a condition which is even baffling the doctors.
He was recovering well in the last two days, but his condition suddenly worsened in the wee hours of Sunday.
“He was not keeping well for the last month and was admitted to the hospital two weeks back.
On early Sunday morning he developed complications and passed away,” said Neha Khinchi, HR head of TWF.
Thakur had started the NGO when he was just 19-years-old with an aim to fulfil wishes of thalassaemia patients. He soon expanded the NGO by establishing free blood transfusion centres in various cities of India.
He also started a thalassaemia wellness centre and chelation pump libraries.
Thakur, who had also tied-up with various corporates to start wellness centres and blood transfusion centres across the country, also launched campaigns to sensitize people on thalassaemia.
He roped in filmstars who readily supported him in the campaigns.
During lockdown, he launched the campaign ‘Ulta Hoke Thalassaemia Roke’ on World Thalassemia Day under which, the NGO had decided to fund blood transfusion of 100 patients belonging to low-income groups in the state.
Thakur who kept asserting his desire, “We must keep trying only so that there comes a day when there is no child born with thalassaemia in India”, had also met bureaucrats to create awareness within the education system.