Kalimpong, March 03: Ujeswata Pradhan, a student of Social Work at
Vidyasagar University in Kolkata today presented Rs. 30,810 to a Thalassemia
patient who is under treatment at Kalimpong Hospital. The patient, Drishti
Chettri is five year old and a resident of Buchri, who belongs to a necessitous
family. Ujeswata has collected the funds in a unique way by selling old
newspapers, books and scrap materials. She had collected a total of Rs. 34,810
out of which she handed away Rs. 30,810 to Drishti and the remaining four
thousand to another ailing child in the hospital.
The hospital staffs and others also helped Ujeswata in collecting the
funds. She has thanked all those individual who helped her for the same and
assure that she will once again contribute in social works during holidays when
she comes home.
Ujeswata is a daughter of GTA councilor Sunil Pradhan. The proud father
while speaking to the reporters said that, his daughter has done a noble deed
on her own will that has made him proud. It may be mentioned here that
Thalassemia is a blood disorder passed out through families in which the makes
and abnormal form of hemoglobin.
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