LIC donates ten wheel chairs to NIMS

Hyderabad, Sep 4: The Life Insurance Corporation of India (South-Central Zone) today donated ten wheel chairs to Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and a School Van to Shantiniketan here, a residential institution for mentally ill persons.

Handing over the wheel chairs to NIMS Director D Prasada Rao, at a function here today, LIC Zonal Manager S Viswanatham said the corporation had been sponsoring a programme in coordination with NIMS to benefit polio-affected children with an amount of Rs 60 lakh towards the cost of 5,000 callipers.

So far, 331 physically-challenged children have been benefitted and remaining callipers would be distributed to needy children.

He said LIC had set up a 'Golden Jubilee Fund' with an initial corpus of Rs 50 crore and Rs 10 crore would be infused every year for the next five years, taking the total corpus to Rs 100 crore to provide succor to poor people and those in distress, education and medical relief.

The corporation had so far declared 45 Bima schools in Andhra Pradesh and 310 in Karnataka. Schools, which assist LIC to insure school children, were declared Bima Schools, he said adding LIC would help NIMS for its new initiatives for the benefit of the public.

NIMS Director D Prasada Rao said LIC had been providing relief to the institute for its activities. He urged LIC to provide financial assistance to the Research Project taken up by NIMS to study the problems of the people of some of the villages in Prakasham district, who were suffering from Kidney problems due to drinking water there.

Stating that the doctors of NIMS had already started the project by visiting the villages, he said the medicos would find a solution to their problems and present the report to the government for further action.

NIMS had also taken up another research project to find out the causes of various diseases, including heart problems, in children, he said adding NIMS doctors would visit various schools and find out the problems of the children and the report would be sent to the state Government for necessary action.

UNI