Wind in the sails of Pronam project
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| At the Pronam meeting in Bell Vue Nursing Home |
April
13, 2014: Last two evenings on Friday and and Saturday (April 11 and
12) I was occupied with matters related to The
Bengal.
On Friday I had a meeting with the CEOs and heads of prominent
hospitals along with Mr Surajit Kar Purkayastha, Commissioner of
Police, Kolkata, and other senior police officials, at the BelleVue
Nursing Home
to discuss the Pronam
Project.
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| Meeting with the Commissioner of Police |
It
was a very important meeting in which heads or senior representatives
of twenty private hospitals of the city came forward to pledge their
support for Pronam
members
– who are all senior citizens. Already fifteen hospitals are on
board with Pronam
but given the growing membership base of Pronam
– 10,000 plus registered elderly members – there's a compelling
need to rope in more hospitals to be involved in the project to
expand medical care.
The
meeting was important because some decisive strides were taken as the
hospitals not only pledged their support but decided to work out the
contours of a medical agenda or action plan to streamline treatment,
medical care and awareness for the Pronam
members.
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| With Goutam Ghose |
There
has been numerous inquiries from the elderly citizens of Kolkata and
other cities seeking to become Pronam
members. Efforts are on to expand the reach of Pronam
in terms of infrastructure, manpower, resources and funding in order
to cater to more elderly citizens who are often lonely and in need of
social support, security and medical care. Two more offices
would be equipped with adequate infrastructure to handle Pronam's
expansion plans.
The
project Pronam,
which had Jyoti Basu and Suchitra Sen as its members, is one of the
most successful and an exemplary joint ventures of The
Bengal
and the Kolkata
Police.
The new efforts, I am sure, will put wind in the sails of the Pronam
project.
On
Saturday evening there was a meeting of The
Bengal
team members at The
Taj Bengal to
conduct some serious planning and action.
The
Commissioner of Police, Surajit Kar Purkayastha (IPS), Additional
Commissioner of Police (III), Debasish Roy (IPS), Deputy Commissioner
of Police, South Division, Murli Dhar, were also invited as special
invitees to the meeting to discuss the Pronam
project.
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| At The Bengal meeting at Taj Bengal |
The
meeting was chaired by the Chairman of The
Bengal,
industrialist, H M
Bangur, who discussed the two new sub-offices of the Pronam
project. Goutam Ghose emphasized that the organization should take up
a project of banning plastic bags in the city while Roopa Ganguly
offered to personally visit the Pronam
members in her area.
The
meeting decided that a three-member committee of Roopa Ganguly, Usha
Uthup and Anniruddha Roy Chowdhury, shall prepare a project plan on
campaign against the use of plastic bags in the city for
consideration of the Committee. Working President, Jogen Chowdhury,
would drawing a sketch for the cover page of the upcoming magazine of
Pronam.
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Anandi
Ghosh, Joint Convenor of the Pronam
project, briefed the committee about the meeting with the CEOs of
prominent hospitals.
The
President, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, discussed womens' issues in the meeting
and Bickram Ghosh offered an entertainment programme for the South
and South East division members of the senior citizens project.
Before
the meeting, the members and guests enjoyed jhaal
muri, puchka,
fish cutlets with cutting
chai
and, of course, there was a chaanch
to beat the summer heat.
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