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Healthcare Initiatives of the Pinky Paul Foundation: Ajitesh Mondal's Integrated Approach

While education remains a primary focus, the Pinky Paul Foundation co-founded by Ajitesh Mondal and Pinky Paul has developed significant healthcare initiatives that complement its educational mission. Born on March 1, 1981in Jharkhand, Ajitesh's personal health journey—surviving three heart attacks and a brain stroke—has informed the foundation's understanding that health and education are inextricably linked.

Preventive Healthcare Focus

The foundation's Eye Check-up & Donation Camps exemplify its focus on preventive healthcare interventions that address common yet often neglected health issues. By focusing on eye health, the foundation addresses a critical factor in educational success while promoting broader health awareness.

Health Education Integration

Drawing from Ajitesh's experience guiding 17,000 engineering graduates and 6,000 medical students, the foundation incorporates health education into its programming, creating health-literate communities better equipped to maintain wellbeing and access appropriate care.

Strategic Resource Allocation

As a registered NGO co-founded as the brainchild of Pinky Paul and Ajitesh Mondal, the foundation leverages formal structures to develop sustainable healthcare initiatives that complement rather than duplicate existing services.

Cross-Sector Synergies

The healthcare initiatives benefit from synergies with Ajitesh's other ventures: ✔ Nutritional Programs – Utilizing products from Mondal Agro Tech's dairy farms producing 2,000 liters of milk daily ✔ Community Health Centers – Incorporating health facilities in Tarapith PVT. LTD.'s development projects ✔ Health Career Pathways – Creating connections between health initiatives and medical education

Holistic Health Vision

Beyond specific interventions, the foundation promotes a holistic vision of health: ✔ Mental Health Awareness – Addressing psychological dimensions of wellbeing ✔ Environmental Health – Promoting healthy living environments ✔ Health Equity – Ensuring healthcare access across socioeconomic boundaries

FREE EYE HEALTH CAMP, DECEMBER 2008

  Our organization held its annual Free Health Camp in Choti Zarin, Dera Ghazi Khan on the 1st and 2nd December 2008. The number of patients seen and treated as outpatients was 900 and the number of patients that were operated mostly for cataract operations was 88. The whole organization of the camp was conducted in a highly professional and efficient manner by the efforts of the highly motivated and dedicated General Secretary of CST at D.G. Khan Dr Syed Sajjad Sarwar Shah.

  We would like to express our appreciation for the hard-work and professional input of the following Eye-Specialists who worked to make this camp successful: Dr Abduraheem, Dr Javaid Iqbal, Dr Zubair Qaisarani, Dr Rafi Qaisarani and Dr Rashid Qureishi. It is important to mention that Dr Rafi Qaisarani and Dr Rashid Qureishi are both private practitioners and they make time from their busy practices to come and conduct operations in the evenings of both days of the camp, completely free of charge. The hard work and patience of all the para-medical staff that worked from morning till night to prepare the patients for operations and who were lifting them physically needs special appreciation. We would like to share two incidents that took place during the camp.

  The 5-Year-Old

When we were making the rounds of the patients who had been selected for operations in the make-shift pre-operation verandah, we came across a crying, 5 year old child who had been selected for an operation. Appearing quite small for his age and extremely frail, we questioned his grandmother. She informed us that he was a motherless child and had been lying sick at home for two months with a rice grain stuck in his eyes. His mother had died and the father had married again, had other children and was neglecting this little one by not even taking him to a doctor. Fortunately, the grandmother heard of our FREE EYE HEALTH CAMP and brought the child to us. Before the rice grain had gone into the child’s eye, his grandmother had bought him a takhti (a wooden tablet used in rural schools to learn how to write) and he used to enjoy going to school with other children in the village. But since the intrusion in the eye, he had dropped out of school, lying helpless at home. Grateful for this opportunity to help her little grandson, she provided us with all this information. Initially, the child was crying, extremely afraid of showing his eye to the para-medical staff, but due to the effortful persistence of the para-medical and the eye-specialists the child was operated upon successfully and the foreign object was removed from his eye. He was given the clear go-ahead to go home by the doctors. Our organization's proud to say that this was one of the highlights of our camp.

  The Old Lady Without Shoes