Health Care Service

 Urgent Assistance needed to Save Miss May Thu Kyaw

Dear friends,

Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission is giving health care services to the patients especially coming from Burma and Bangladesh.  Our services include interpretation, co-ordination between patients and doctors, helping for completion of all formalities to get permission from Health Department, Government of West Bengal, in case of organ transplants with unrelated donors etc.  For the last two years the Mission has been giving all these services.  More than 60 patients, mostly with kidney failure diseases, from Burma got better treatment here at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, with our Health Help Services.  Now all of them are leading their normal lives. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, is the only hospital, which has JCI certificate in eastern India. 

Ms. May Thu Kyaw, aged 11, with kidney failure disease, arrived here at our Mission along with her parents on 20/07/09.  Earlier she was treated at Child General Hospital in Yangon for 8 months, but the condition was deteriorating day by day.  According to her parents if they were late to reach India for two weeks more, then their daughter may be no more alive, because all medical facilities are not available there.  Immediately her arriving in India, we took her to Nephrologist, who advised to get her admitted in Hospital.  Accordingly we got her admitted the next day on 21/07/09.  After being stable in all sides, doctors tried to make neckline on her neck, through which only dialysis can be done safely.  Unfortunately it was not successful, and then the doctors took an alternate option to do from the vein at thigh.  After being successful this time, she was doing well and discharged from hospital, and waiting for completion of all formalities to be done.   While preparing for renal transplant, which will take place after 3 days, she became senseless with high blood pressure.  Got admitted to hospital again, she was kept in ICU for three days.  Now doctors are trying again to put neckline on her neck.  After neckline done successfully, she needs to kidney transplant, which will take place on 14th September, 2009.  The potential donor is her mother, Daw Htay Htay Kyi.  During these two times hospitalizations before actual kidney transplant done, all money, the parents have brought, has gone.  Her father, Ko Ko Naing, is a bus driver by profession, having very low income.  They came here getting helps from friend's circles.  Huge amount of expenditures already incurred while eight months hospitalization in Yangon.  Now their friend's circles also cannot support any more. 

Now I would like to appeal to you to save her life.  She is only 11 years old.  Saving her life depends on your kind and generous donation.  According to kidney package expenditure, she will need $ 10000/-.  This Mission has sanctioned $ 1000/.  The amount left with parents is $ 2500/-.  So we are in urgent need $ 6500/- more.  Kindly come forward to save her.  All money transaction will be done through bank.  Bank statement will be sent to each and every donor.                   

Kindly send your kind donation to :

Instruction for Remittance in US Dollars for Savings Account:

Transaction Reference No. :

To                                :           JP Morgan Chase Bank

                                                N.Y, USA

                                                SWIFT – CHASUS33

                                                ABA – 021000021

For Credit to                :           001-1-407376 CHIPS UID 340191

                                                AXIS Bank Ltd., Mumbai

For Further credit to     :           AXIS Bank Ltd.

                                                Kolkata Main Branch

                                                SWIFT – UTIBINBB005

Ultimate Beneficiary     :           Name:  Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission,

Please send an e-mail message informing us about your donation to: ndbatha@gmail.com

Burbadhan Tripura Saved

Burbadhan Tripura, aged 35, son of Jinnaram Tripura, along with his younger brother and one friend has come to our Mission on 29th July 09 for medical Check-up. Earlier he was in Govt. Hospital in Tripura for many days. Tripura Govt. Hospital referred him to SSKM Govt. Hospital in Kolkata for better treatment. The doctors from SSKM Hospital advised him to get admission immediately. However, it was very unfortunate that the Hospital Superitendent could not provide him any bed. He has to wait indifinite period. In the meantime his condition is deteriorating. We could not sit seeing his suffering.

 Burbadhan Tripura, Tripuri tribes, having Rheumatic Heart Disease with severe Calcific Mitral and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, was born on 11/08/1975 at a remote village called Kalachara Para, P.O. Boratali, P.S. Manu Bazar, Sabroom Sub-division, Dist. South Tripura, Tripura, India. Tripuri tribes are seen only in the State of Tripura. Most of these tribal people are farmers, having low source of Income.   Being born in such remote area among poor backward minorities, Burbadhan cannot afford all medical expenses.  Even he never visited big cities like Kolkata.  It was his friend who has brought him here. 

I started to think what I can do for him. Accordingly I went to Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, with which we are having tie-up for Health Care Services. I met Dr. Ramesh Sheshadhri, Cardio Surgeon, who has helped us a lot for getting discount from Hospital.  He was admitted to hospital on 17/08/09 and operation has been done successfully on 21/08/09 along with Mitral Valve replacement.  He was discharged from hospital after being stable on 28/08/09.  The total cost for his medical treatment is Rs. 227,651/-.  The Mission sanctioned Rs. 20,000 and hospital has also given contribution Rs. 57,651/-.  Staying at our Mission both pre-operative and post operative free of charge of fooding and lodging, now he is doing his follow-up, and waiting for the doctor's signal for returning home.

[Photo-left to right: Burbadhan Tripura and his younger brother Sukhidhan Tripura] 

Health Care Service

Arogya Prama Labha - Health is the greatest wealth. Without sound health we cannot do any work; we cannot enjoy our life. Health Care, therefore, is very important. Health care is a part of human validity. There are thousands of people dying every day without this validity. Thousands of women and children are dying every second due to lack of Health Care facility and Health awareness. If Health care and awareness facilities are available, they would have been living longer lives.

We believe Prevention is better than Cure. For prevention from all diseases the only way is to make general people aware of Health hazardous.

Recently we, Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission, have tied-up with Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, for proper Health Care Services. Many Kidney, Heart and Cancer patients came to Kolkata for their better treatment. More than 60 patients are now leading their normal lives after quality treatment done here. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, is the only hospital having JCI certificate in Eastern India.

Very recently U Thein Han has gone back to Myanmar after successful kidney transplantation here. The donor is his young sister Daw Mya Mya Thein.

[From right to left: Mya Mya Thein (kidney donor), U Thein Han, (recipient), Ven. Dr. Nando Batha, U Ko Ko Gyi, (younger brother of U Thein Han), and Daw Htay Kyi, another younger sister of U Thein Han]