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Daijiworld Media Network – Mumbai (EP)

Mumbai, Feb 22: GSB Ganeshotsav festival committee recently donated a 2D Echo machine to GSB Medical trust at Dadar east. GSB Ganeshotsava committee president and former Corporation Bank general manager N N
Pal set the machine in motion.

GSB Ganeshotsava festival committee secretary Ullas D Kamath, trustees Mukund Kamath, S A Bhat, Girish Pikle, Rajiv Shenvi, GSB medical trust treasurer Geetha R Prabhu, executive committee member Nagesh Povkar and other members were present.

GSBS Medical Trust is an offshoot of the Gowda Saraswat Brahman Sabha of Matunga, Mumbai. The trust, an autonomous body was formed in 1973 for rendering quality health care service at economical rates to the needy and the deprived of the city without consideration of caste, creed or religion.

It is situated in a convenient, well connected location within earshot of Dadar Railway Station. The trust runs two centres close to each other. The first medical centre has a fully equipped pathology,
digitalized X-ray, including an Image Intensifier TV (IITV), dental and physiotherapy departments. The second, a super specialty centre has facilities in place for ultrasonography including colour doppler
for cardiac and peripheral vascular doppler tests, stress test, 2-D echocardiogram, endoscopy, mammography, electroencephalography, ECG, orthopantomography, cephalography and pulmonary function test. The consultation facility includes general medicine, cardiology, general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, nephrology and urosurgery, neurology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, pediatrics, ophthalmology, ENT, psychiatry, gynaecology, and onco-surgery.

The two centres together receive over 300 patients daily for various diagnostic investigations. The Medical Trust has rendered medical service at affordable rates to over hundred and fifty million needy patients in a year. This is the measure of the seminal contribution made by the trust in the service of the local population.

The trust has its third centre at Dharavi on Sion-Bandra Link Road and has facilities for pathology, dentistry, X-Ray, and consultation facility in general medicine, pediatrics, orthopedic, ENT and
gynecology.

The trust’s unit no 1 and 3 mainly cater to the needs of the poor and downtrodden people by providing them the services at subsidized rates. The trust has also formulated a scheme known as 'Arogyanidhi' under which it provides medicines recommended by the consultants to the very needy people. This recently started scheme started by taking care of half a dozen patients has now crossed 100. The trust has also started providing them financial assistance for their minor surgeries.