Maharashtra: Octogenarian physician braves pandemic to regard villagers

At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has stored maximum senior voters indoors, an 87-year-old physician from Mul in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district has been going out of his option to attend to his sufferers in far off villages. (Representational Symbol)

At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has stored maximum senior voters indoors, an 87-year-old physician from Mul in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district has been going out of his option to attend to his sufferers in far off villages.

With handiest his bicycle for corporate, Ramchandra Dandekar has been travelling barefoot for a minimum of 10 km on a daily basis to villages in Mul, Pombhurna and Ballarshah talukas for the closing 60 years, offering unfastened doorstep remedy to other folks.

The present well being disaster has now not deterred the practitioner of Homeopathy and Ayurveda from stepping out of his house.

Chatting with PTI, Dandekar says, “My regimen is equal to sooner than. I need to proceed to offer selfless provider to the deficient in villages.”

After finishing his degree from the Nagpur Faculty of Homeopathy in 1957-58, Dandekar labored as a lecturer on the Chandrapur Homeopathy Faculty for a yr, sooner than transferring to rural spaces to serve in villages.

His elder son Jayant Dandekar says the octogenarian has a set timetable for his visits to villages on weekdays and carries handiest his scientific package and drugs with him.

He does now not even lift a cell phone or an eye fixed all over his journeys.

“If he has to wait to sufferers in far flung talukas, he travels via bus and visits the houses on cycles stored in villages. And if he will get past due, he chooses to stick again at somebody’s space,” his son says.

“Everybody calls him ‘Physician Sahab Mul waale’, and he visits round 20 houses in each and every village,” he says.

Despite the fact that his visits have now decreased a bit of, the physician has persevered to serve his sufferers amid the pandemic, regardless of the danger of an infection.

“He guides and advises other folks to get admitted to close by hospitals if they’re discovered affected by fever or different signs of the virus,” says his son, who’s pleased with his father’s selfless provider.

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