Rai has independently been aiding to poor north-eastern patients and victims in Delhi who are in severe need.
Serving mankind without expecting returns is a long-forgotten gesture but that is not the case for one social activist and Delhi Police for North East representative (DPNER) of Gorkhas, Rebecca Rai who has been attending to fellow-north eastern victims and patients in the National Capital since 1984.
"I was 14 when I had come to Delhi to admit my father to AIIMS since he was terminally ill. We found out he had cancer. After he passed away and I fell sick. Doctors informed us that there was a 90 per cent chance that I had breast cancer. That was a turning point in our lives and from then on I decided to start working for social causes, mainly helping patients who from the north-eastern states and were residing in Delhi. To help them and guide them," said Rai as she recollected that time with a lump in her throat.
Rai has independently been aiding to poor north-eastern patients and victims in Delhi who are in severe need. She also renders medical assistance for patients. From helping them understand what the doctor directs, getting them prescribed medicines to even cleaning and dressing wounds of accident victims, she also counsels her patients.
"Some really poor patients come to me seeking medical treatment and financial assistance. I usually appeal on social media, NGOs, and my friends to help the patients. They are extremely poor and my heart aches for them, so I spend my own money and when that is not enough, I take loans from friends or my family. I send them back home after they fully recover by booking train tickets and sometimes even flight tickets. I do as much as I can on my own for these people and I receive satisfaction from their smiles."
Rai has been receiving some help from NGOs and other organisations like Helping Hand, Mani Trust, among others. Rai is in the process of adopting one of her 7-year-old patients who hails from Kalimpong in West Bengal and suffers from Acute Myeloid Leukemia. In the future, she hopes to open a small hospital with 20 beds where all her patients can stay and get treated easily and safely in Delhi.
Rai's patients range from two-and-a half-years-old to 75 years old. As of today she is accommodating and aiding to 10-15 kidney disease and cancer patients including one physically challenged patient, all minors. Some of her patients are orphaned whereas some others have been disowned by their families because of their disease.
"I just received news from a doctor treating my patient Kiran Subedi who has a very rare blood and bone-marrow cancer that has been diagnosed only 24-25 times ever. The treatment is very expensive and he is from a very poor background. I have been trying to give him good treatment but nothing has been working for him. He has no bone-marrow donor since his brother's test did not match," said Rai.
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