Minister for health and family welfare, P. Longon appreciated the charitable works by the Jain community in Nagaland saying their noble deeds should be emulated by others.
He said this while inaugurating the newly renovated S. D. Jain Charitable Clinic, Wednesday here at Dimapur.
Longon also acknowledge the contributions of the Jain community in health sectors among other philanthropic works and appreciated the multi-disciplinary approach of Jain society. He also contributed a sum of Rs. 51,000 for the medicines for the needy people.
President S.D. Jain Samaj, Dimapur Om Prakash Sethi informed about the various services that the Jain community was offering towards the development of Nagaland. He said the community was extending service to the society through its school, college, hospital and various charity works since the establishment of Jain temple in Kohima 100 years back.
The Samaj joint secretary Manoj Chhabra also pointed out that Jain community has been running the charitable clinic since 1974 making it one of the oldest charitable clinic in Nagaland.
He informed that the clinic has five doctors and that the clinic provides various facilities for OPD, laboratory test, ECG & X-Ray facilities, dental check-ups etc. adding that any patient can avail medical check-up at a very nominal rate of Rs. 20.
It was informed that most of the available medicines are also provided for free to the needy patients and that more than 5, 00, 000 patients have been benefitted from this noble deed.
The samaj informed that free medical camps have been organized on many occasions besides blood testing and vaccinations and also informed that very soon, digital X-Ray facility, Eye OPD, physiotherapy would be launched at a minimum cost.
In the programme, S. Sarkar who served the clinic for last 40 years was felicitated on the occasion.
The current committee of the hospital has renovated the ground floor with the active support of the society’s executive committee and general members of Dimapur Jain Samaj. Further, the committee informed that it would renovate the upper floors for better services in near future.
The clinic was inaugurated in the presence of parliamentary secretary L. Khumo, Jain community leaders besides the doctors and Jain community people.