Address At The Inauguration Of Mri & Spiral Ct Scan Unit & Kle Society's Dharmshala Kle Society's Hospital And Medical Research Centre, Belgaum

I am delighted to participate in the inauguration of the MRI & Spiral CT Scan Unit and KLE Society?s Dharmshala of the KLE Society?s Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Belgaum. I greet the organizers, doctors, Scientists and para-medical staff on this occasion.

When I see the doctors I see them as pain removers. When I see the nurses, I am reminded of angels moving in a full moon night. In a hospital when no doctors, no relatives are around the patients during night time, the nurses go around to provide consolation and relief to the patients. At that time nurses appear to be angels for the patients to cater to their requirements like medicines, dressing and other help. In this scenario, Pharmacists also play an important role by providing right kind of medicines. Physiotherapists make the limbs of the patients operational through intensive exercises and body treatment. All of you provide yeoman service in removing human miseries and pain with human intelligence and patience. ?Service to human being is Service to God?.

Rural Health Care

Recently I visited Dr.K M Cherian?s International Centre for Biomedical Sciences & Technology, at Chennai and I noted that his Centre has established the first Cardiology and Cardiovascular Centre in the rural setup in the village of Parumala in Kerala which has a population of 8300. I was happy to note that the Centre had already carried out 300 angiograms, 25 angioplasties with stenting and nearly 100 open heart surgeries including children. This is a good rural development model where high quality healthcare has reached the remote villages and I am sure this facility can be extended as a medical tourism project to other villages in the country. This type of data and work done to the society should be utilized for realizing quality healthcare for the rural sector. I am happy to note that the KLE Society is also creating quality healthcare facility in a place like Belgaum which can provide medical support to the interior Karnatka.

Conclusion

We need good hearts to treat the ailing hearts, we need helping hands to remove the pain, and we need beautiful minds to give happiness to the patients.

When God first created the human being, it took million and millions of years to get the right shape. He went on experimenting and finally he realized the shape he wanted. Once realized, he gave life. First the man said, ?I thank you, Almighty. Second thing he did, he smiled at God. Almighty was very happy, that his creation has done two good things. Then, God was preoccupied for some time, later when God looked at the man and found something is missing in him. He created the fire in milli-seconds and created Shaitan out of fire. He asked Shaitan to prostrate before the first human being that he created in his image. The Shaitan refused to prostrate. He said, ?Oh! Almighty you have created me out of fire, I am a superior creation?. The God was taken aback. He thought for a while and decided to integrate the man and Shaitan into a one single system, that is the human race what we are. If we want to become close to Almighty God, let our mind and hand be kind to human beings who are suffering with pain. That means we have defeated the Shaitan within us. The question is who will defeat whom? May God bless you to be close to God?s image and the Shaitan gets defeated. Your kindness will flow through your actions, thousands and thousands of patients will be relieved of the heart pain and they will say ?Thank you doctor? with the smile. That means you are in God?s image.

With these words I inaugurate the MRI CT Scan Unit and the Dharmshala.

My best wishes to all of you.