Unsung heroes’: Odisha

As cyclone Fani barrelled into the Odisha coast, rescue officials and disaster
management forces along with state police forces sprang into action assisting
people in need. One such photo of a young female police officer is going viral.

With the wind storms gusting up to nearly 180 kmph accompanied with heavy
torrential rain incessant rains, Cyclone Fani tore through the eastern coast in
Odisha on Friday bringing down trees, power and communications lines and
thatched houses. The devastating storm caused not only havoc in major cities
and villages but also took the lives of eight people in the state.

As one of the biggest storms in years was bearing down on Odisha,

authorities prepared for the cyclone days ahead of the calamity, making sure
people were evacuated on time and shifted from the storm’s path to minimise
the fatality.
And as cyclone Fani barrelled into the Odisha coast, rescue officials and
disaster management forces along with state police forces sprang into action
assisting people in need. One such photo of a young female police officer
giving a ride to two other women on her motorcycle is going viral. The cop of
Talchua Police Station in Kendrapara was seen evacuating village residents
to a shelter and it garnered a lot of positive reaction online.

Bengal’s Unsung Hero

Subhasini

SUBHASINI: A vegetable-seller under Park Circus footbridge now the recipient

of PadmaShree award. Yes, it is the story of unsung hero who dedicated her life
to help the poor, serve the patient. She is one of those who realize the poor’s
condition on treatment expenditure and value of treatment.
Subhasini Mistry, a poor lady from rural West Bengal, who toiled 20 years as
domestic help and daily labourer to build a hospital for poor in the State. At 73,
she can look back with satisfaction at a two-stored, whitewashed building, the
realization of her dream to build a hospital for the poor – all because she
couldn’t afford proper medical treatment for her husband and became a widow
at 23.

Subhasini was grief-stricken after her husband died, but she resolved to build a
hospital for the needy so that others would not have to suffer the same fate as
her husband. What followed was a life of abject poverty and extreme physical
labour as the mother of four soldiered on with the single-minded pursuit of
setting up the hospital.

she managed to save enough to buy a one-bigha (one-third of an acre) plot.

Now 47 years down the line, Humanity Hospital, in Hanspukur village near
Kolkata, stands tall and proud, serving the poor free of cost