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The Hindu
25-06-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
Tenkasi District Collector donates blood; honours blood donors
District Collector A. K. Kamal Kishore, who honoured the blood donors at Tenkasi Government Hospital on Wednesday during the 'World Blood Donors' Day' celebrations, donated blood along with others. After inaugurating the blood group identification camp at Tenkasi Government Hospital, Mr. Kamal Kishore donated blood and then honoured 180 donors, who donate blood at regular intervals to the blood banks of Tenkasi Government Hospital and the Sankarankovil Government Hospital. He also honoured the organisations that work closely with the blood banks for arranging the donors in the right time. The Collector appealed to the youth with clean habits to donate blood for saving the lives of the patients battling a range of ailments and the patients in the intensive care units after undergoing critical surgeries. Joint Director of Health Services Geetha, Medical Superintendent of Tenkasi Government Hospital R. Jeslin, Medical Officer of Tenkasi Government Hospital Blood Bank M. Babu and others were present.
The Hindu
21-06-2025
- General
- The Hindu
One-stop service centre for differently- abled inaugurated
District Collector A. K. Kamal Kishore inaugurated the one-stop service centre for the differently-abled at Puliyangudi Government Boys' Higher Secondary School campus on Saturday to offer a range of services to improve their quality of life. After inaugurating the integrated service centre, christened 'Vizhuthugal', he said the experts in this centre would offer a range of services like physiotherapy and other treatments for stroke, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease and congenital diseases and exercises for pain in neck, shoulder, back etc., special education for the intellectual disability, recognising, reading and writing numerals and alphabets, socialising with others, doing their personal routines, understanding time in clocks, identifying coins and currencies, special education for hearing and speech impairment, articulation therapy, improving their understanding, fluency therapy, expressing their thoughts etc. 'Since we've posted well-trained experts, the parents of the differently-abled and the special children should make use of it so that these children's quality of life will improve substantially,' he said. The Collector also handed over 83 battery vehicles, costing ₹2.07 crore, to the village panchayats of Sankarankovil and Melaneelithanallur panchayat unions. MP Rani Srikumar, MLAs T. Sadan Thirumalaikumar of Vasudevanallur and E. Raja of Sankarankovil and Project Director of District Rural Development Agency Michael Antony Fernando were present.
