Community Work

Proud of OGKTMA for raising $60,000 towards House Staff Personal Protective Equipment in our Osmania, Gandhi and Kakatiya Medical Colleges, Telangana. Case Fatality Rate in India for COVID 19 has been <2% so far. But the same in Healthcare Personnel has been >12% unfortunately, due to the high viral load they get exposed to in COVID wards. Keeping that in view, we from Telangana Medical Alumni of US (OGKTMA) donated best in class N95 masks (U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) certified) that filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Enough for 4-6 weeks for all the > 2400 Post Graduates and interns working in Osmania and Kakatiya Medical Colleges. They were distributed to house staff by concerned Principal’s Dr Shashikala & Dr Sandhya respectively! Also distributed to Gandhi Medical College house staff.

Happy to see my son Aneesh stepping up to the challenge! He made 200 of these face mask straps to make it easier for the nurses to wear the face mask throughout the day in this COVID crisis. He used a 3D printer to make these Face Mask Straps. Donated it to the Chief Medical Officer, St Joseph Medical Center Dr Scott Neeley to be distributed to them.

Unprecedented Crisis, Uncharted territories and Unimaginable Humanitarian efforts-  For the first time, funds were not an issue. The bottle neck was the supply of medical equipment. What seems to be a simple task of buying and shipping turned out to be arduous due to the various logistical issues to surmount. AAPI was able ship 1000 lifesaving concentrators out of which we procured 50 for ATA with kind cooperation of concerned presidents Dr Sudhakar and Mr Bhuvanesh. ATA volunteers in Hyderabad swung into action and distributed them quickly to MGM Hospital, Warangal, district hospitals and rural hospitals at Mulugu, Karimnagar, Banswada, Jadcherla, Mahabubnagar, Achampet, Nagar Kurnool, Narayanpet, Wanaparthy and at Yagna foundation in Vikarabad.

Culmination of few weeks of hard work! Telangana Medical Alumni (OGKTMA) as usual was in the forefront of medical humanitarian efforts reacting to the Covid surge in India/ Telangana. We were able to procure 425 Oxygen concentrators and they were lifted by Air Cargo. Destination Hyderabad.

Quite grueling spell of activity! Donors all over the US reposed immense faith in American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) to help Indian healthcare system during the second wave of Covid. With its vast network of foot soldiers, AAPI is able to deliver the most needed medical equipment to the diverse regions of India in the crucial acute phase of second covid wave in India. Our main theme was helping out non-profit and government entities which are doing great service and could do better if provided more help. Ultimately the most deprived and underprivileged should get the much-needed medical help as we grappled with the pandemic! We have already delivered about 2000 oxygen concentrators for primary healthcare centers and isolation centers. American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Donated 100 Ventilators and 100 High Flow Nasal Canula Machines to 45 Hospitals all over India as part of the Covid Pandemic Relief Efforts! State City Name Ventilators High Flow Nasal Canula Machines Andhra Pradesh Madanapalle Dist-Chittoor Mary Lott Lyles Hospital 1 2 Andhra Pradesh Kakinada Government General Hospital 3 4 Andhra Pradesh Kurnool General Hospital 3 4 Andhra Pradesh Kuchipudi Sanjeevini hospital 1 2 Andhra Pradesh Tirupathi SVRR Government General Hospital 2 2 Andhra Pradesh Guntur Guntur General Hospital 3 2 Assam Guwahati Marwari Hospital 2   Bihar Patna Mahavir Arogya Sansthan 2   Bihar Aurangabad Sadar Hospital 2   Chhattisgarh Rajnandagaon Christian Fellowship Hospital 1 2 Gujarat Ahmedabad Civil Hospital 3 4 Gujarat Nadiad Dharam Sinh Memorial Hospital 1 1 Himachal Pradesh Shimla Indira Gandhi Medical College Hospital   2 Himachal Pradesh Tanda Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College 1 2 Himachal Pradesh Hamirpur Dr Radhakrishnan Medical College 1 2 Himachal Pradesh Nahan Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar Medical College 1 2 Himachal Pradesh Mandi Lal Bahadur Government Medical College 1 2 Himachal Pradesh Chamb Jawahar Lal Nehru Government Medical College 1 2 Karnataka Bangalore SDA Medical Center 1 2 Karnataka Chikmagalur District Hospital 3   Karnataka Bangalore Victoria Hospital 3 4 Kerala Perinthalmanna EMS Memorial Charitable Trust 1 4 Kerala Thrissur Amala Cancer Hospital Society 1 2 Madhya Pradesh Padhar, Dist: Betul Padhar Hospital 1 4 Maharashtra Pune BJ Government Medical College/Sasson Hospital 2   Maharashtra Latur Sai Foundation 2   Maharashtra Mumbai Holy Spirit Hospital 1 2 Maharashtra Aurangabad Nimai Hospitals 2 2 Mizoram Falkawn Zoram Medical College 4   Orissa Jharsuguda District Headquarter Hospital 2   Rajasthan Mount Abu RMM Global Trauma Hospital 2 2 Sikkim Gangtok New STNM Hospital 2   Tamil Nadu Thanjavur Thanjavur Medical College Hospital 2   Tamil Nadu Coimbatore Coimbatore Medical College Hospital 2   Tamilnadu Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital 4 6 Telangana Medak Government Hospital 1 1 Telangana Hyderabad Yagna Foundation Hospital, Vikarabad 2   Telangana Bibinagar AIIMS 1 2 Telangana Hyderabad Nijam’s Institute of Medical Sciences 3 4 Uttar Pradesh Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, BHU Hospital, Varanasi 4 4 Uttar Pradesh Kanpur Kanpur Civil Hospital 8 8 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow King George Hospital 10 10 West Bengal Kolkata Ramkrishna Mission Seva Prathistan 2 4 West Bengal Joka, Kolkata Bharat Sevashram Sangha Hospital 2 4 West Bengal Belur Sramabiji Hospital 2  

Unveiling of OGKTMA Concentrators by Honorable Governor of Telangana and President Tamilisai Soundararajan, Indian Red Cross Society, Telangana State Branch at Raj Bhavan on the eve of Telangana formation day. From 25 minute onwards in the video byte! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=947678389404347&id=362293827176369 Could’nt have asked for a better partner than Red Cross Telangana Unit for this humanitarian effort of supplying oxygen concentrators to Red Cross Oxygen Banks Other like-minded Non-profit organizations catering to Primary Health Centers in Warangal, Mahboobnagar, Nagarkurnool, Karimnagar, Nalgonda etc in Rural Telangana and other charitable organizations like Helping Hand Foundation Agarwal Foundation JCI, Secunderabad Dignity Drive Foundation Robinhood Foundation Sevodagam Foundation,  Hyderabad and Dr KV Reddy Lions Hospital, Bodhan, Nizamabad Distribution of 196 Oxygen Concentrators donated by Osmania Gandhi Kakatiya and Telangana Medical Alumni Association of America to the beneficiaries held at Indian Red Cross Society, Telangana State Branch Headquarters, Hyderabad. Another 200 were distributed to teaching hospitals like Osmania, Nizams, Kakatiya and primary health centers through organizations.

Dr Sujeeth organized a project to help thousands of Indians stranded in US with their prescriptions running out

Dr Sujeeth was delighted to attend and be part of the delegation to welcome Indian Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs, Shrimathi Nirmala Sitharaman to California. Accompanying her was Indian Ambassador to US, His Excellency Taranjit Singh Sandhu.   She spoke eloquently on idea to invite US Universities to set up campuses in GIFT Cities, initiatives on MSME’s and the strong adoption of Digital payments in India. A big thank you to San Francisco Consul General Hon’ble Dr TV Nagendra Prasad and his team who made this possible!

When the largest democracy in the world, India celebrates the 75th Independence Day, the world embraced the idea with the tricolor flag being displayed on landmark buildings like Empire state building in New York, Burj Khalifa in Dubai etc. San Francisco is no exception as the Mayor London Breed’s Office in the Historic City Hall, Rotunda opened its doors for the SFO Consul General Dr Nagendra Prasad, his staff and its invitees! Had the honor of attending this ceremony on this historic occasion. Two largest democracies had to be natural partners!!

Leadership of OGKTMA and AAPI met Honorable Health Minister of Telangana Shri Harish Rao garu for over an hour. He mentioned government programs already rolled out or being rolled out in terms of Diabetes and Hypertension screening to arrest organ damages that they are seeing in young individuals. The points that we were able to impress upon from the topics discussed were- Increasing Emergency Medicine PG seats from current 3 institutions (NIMS and 2 Kamineni hospitals) to many more especially, immediately in Osmania Gandhi and Kakatiya Medical colleges, due to the complete infrastructure present already. Introducing some Kind of mandatory basic CPR training for High School graduation. Quoted countries like Norway and Denmark. He encouraged us to adopt medical colleges for the student’s upliftment in academics. We appraised him about what we are going to start in Kakatiya medical college- Monthly CME webinars, Mentoring students in Research and increasing research activities