How to help Dr. Patil's Family?

We have planned to extend help for Dr. chandrakant Patil's family in all possible way. Our first step would be monetary support. We requesting your contribution for this noble cause.

You can send your contribution to following account :

Guneshwar Anand
A/C No. 016501513442
ICICI Bank, Gandhinagar Branch.

Please mention "Dr. Chandrakant Patil" and your name in remarks section(Its very important so that we can acknowledge you).
Please Send an email to : ganand.song@gmail.com after transfer of money.

We'll be sending money to Sri Umashankar Patil jee in every two week . We'll put scanned copy of DD(demand draft) on our blog. All the donor details will be available on our blog as well as on spreadsheet.

Although if you want to send directly your contribution to Sri Umakant Patil jee, check here

You may ask then Why this separate money collection drive?

Sending individual cheque of DD will create problem for Sri Umakant Patil jee, like he has to go bank quite frequently. On the other hand if we collect amount in one place and send him as a single DD, it'll be easy for him.
For any further query please mail me . Its small initiative by all Bihari people to give tribute to late Dr. Chandrakant Patil.

We have now closed our fund raising campaign(13-11-2008) .

Thanks for your support.

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Please come forward and extend your helping hand

Friends we need to support family to Dr Chandrakant Patil.

We are planning to collect funds and then we will send DD/check to Father of Dr Chandrakant Patil.

We were shocked to read following news item in HT, mumabi edition.
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HT, Mumbai edition, page 6.
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CALL IT a travesty of sorts — the Calamity Relief Fund (CRF) accounts for providing immediate relief to victims of pest attack and cloudburst, but not lightning! For this very reason, the Bihar government has nothing but condolences to offer to the bereaved family of Dr Chandrakant Patil, a postgraduate student of King Edward Medical College, Mumbai, who was killed by lightning near Supaul on Sunday .

Dr Patil, who reached here on September 18, had fought with his seniors to allow him to work as a volunteer in the flood-hit districts of Bihar and was doing yeoman’s service at filmmaker Prakash Jha’s Kataiya relief camp in Supaul till death snatched him away .

While condolence messages, including that of State Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav, kept pouring in to Hindustan Times office, the Bihar government on Tuesday said there was no provision either in the CRF or the National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF) to pay compensation to the families of those killed by lightning.

Citing the relevant clause under the CRF, Additional Commissioner, Disaster Management Department, Pratyaya Amrit said, “The CRF shall be used only for meeting the expenditure for providing immediate relief to the victims of cyclone, drought, earthquake, fire, flood, tsunami, hailstorm, landslide, avalanche, cloudburst and pest attack.” ruchirkumar@hindustantimes.com

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If the above news is valid ( we still cannot believe this lame excuse by Gov of Bihar) then this is really shocking. We are sure that Bihar Gov will look into this matter and do something for the family to Dr Chandrakant Patil. We Biharis will not digest such lame excues made by officials from Patna.

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Lightening Kills Dr Chandrakant Patil in Saupal.

This disturbing news came from Patna.
A very dedicated and noble person lost his life while he was in Saupal (Bihar) serving the flood victims.

News item which appeared on Patnadaily.com
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Lightning Kills Maharashtra Doctor at Relief Camp in Supaul

In a rather tragic, though freak, accident, 25-year old doctor from Maharashtra Dr. Chandrakant Patil died on Sunday night when he was struck by lightning in Kataiya village in Supaul district where he was camping to provide medical relief to the flood victims.

Patil, a native of Dhule in Maharashtra, came to Bihar on September 18 as part of a 40-doctor team who volunteered to serve in Bihar's flood-hit districts at the behest of prominent film-maker Prakash Jha.

On Sunday night at around 10:30 pm, he, along with some of his colleagues, were relaxing in a makeshift tent when suddenly the tent was hit by lightning. While three men received non-life threatening burns, Patil was not so lucky and died on the spot.

His body was taken to a Supaul Hospital from where it was flown to the Patna Medical College Hospital where thousands of people turned up to get a last glimpse of the man who is considered a hero for his selfless act and the ultimate sacrifice he made while serving the people of Bihar.

Dr. Patil's body was later flown to Mumbai.

Bihar State Health Services Association Coordinator Dr. Ajay Kumar, in his eulogy, said that Dr. Patil deserved the highest civil honor for sacrificing his life while doing a noble work in Bihar.

"Though no amount of money could bring back Dr. Patil, I would ask the state government to provide Rs. 50 lakh to his family members in Maharashtra," Dr. Kumar said.

Dr. Patil was the only son of Umakant Patil. He graduated from Pune's B. J. Medical College and was pursuing a residency in preventive and social medicine at KEM Hospital.

Besides his father, Patil leaves behind his mother and a sister.

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Our sympathies are there with Dr Patil's family.

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Sad Demise of Dr. Chandrakant Patil during Bihar Flood Relief work

Sad Demise of Dr. Chandrakant Patil during Bihar Flood Relief work

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Lightning-strike-kills-city-doctor-working-with-Bihar-flood-victims/364826

http://patnadaily.com/news2008/sept/092208/doctor_killed_by_lightening.html

"His death has come as a shock to his parents, as he was the main bread earner in the family. His mother is now in hospital because of the shock," said Anil Dudhabhate, general secretary of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD).Patil's family friend from Dhule, Pramod Bet said that both his parents were in shock. "We are trying to support them and prepare for the last rites," Bet said."He was a very friendly and hardworking resident doctor with a keen interest in social work — something he planned to pursue in future," Dudhbhate recalled. Patil's father Umakant works in a mill in Dhule while his younger sister is studying for HSC examination.
http://floodreliefbihar.blogspot.com/2008/09/death-of-dr-chandrakant-patil.html

http://floodreliefbihar.blogspot.com/2008/09/appeal-to-help-family-of-martyr.html
We should come forward and give all possible support for Dr. Chandrakant's family. Not only in short term but also long term. He has lost his life for others so now its our moral responsibility to take care of his family. But unfortunately in past we easily use to forget our real hero's, hope this time we'll not do the same...
Guneshwar Anand.

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