Chemplast Sanmar in association with Gokulam Hospital, Salem, conducted a medical camp at the Vaideeswara Vidhya Mandir Matriculation School on 2 December 2007. These camps are conducted on a regular basis all through the year. About 963 men, women and children from Thangamapuripattinam, Kavipuram, Ramamoorthi Nagar and the areas of Mettur to Gunjandiyur benefited from this free medical camp. Sri Gokulam Hospital’s 70 member team, with 10 specialists in the fields of general medicine, orthopaedics, neurology, diabetology, gastroenterology, O&G, and paediatrics, Chemplast’s in-house medical practitioners and other officials ensured the success of the camp.
About 963 men, women and children in and around Mettur benefited from Chemplast Sanmar’s free medical camp.
The team from Gokulam Hospital and Chemplast Sanmar.
CII Core Group called on Singapore’s Senior Minister, H E Goh Chok Tong, at Istana, on 6 December 2007. N Kumar of Sanmar is part of the Core Group that also met with Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education and Finance and Senior Minister H E Lee Hsien Loong among others. The Core Group plays a key role in promoting bilateral trade and cooperation between India and Singapore.
Standing from L to R (first row):
N Kumar, The Sanmar Group and Past President, CII, Analjit Singh, Chairman, CII International Council and Chairman, Max India, Senior Minister, H E GOH Chok Tong, Sunil Bharti Mittal, President, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises, Dr S Jaishankar, High Commissioner of India to Singapore.
Standing from L to R (second row):
Atul Punj, Chairman, Punj Lloyd Ltd, Syamal Gupta, Chairman, TATA International Ltd, K V Kamath, Vice President, CII and MD and CEO, ICICI Bank Ltd., Jamshyd N Godrej, Past President, CII and Chairman, Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Co Ltd., Ms Neerja Bhatia, Director and Head-Southeast Asia Region, CII, Tarun Das, Chief Mentor, CII.
The Madhuram Narayanan Centre for Exceptional Children (MNC) celebrated its 18th Annual Day on 12 December 2007. Children, parents and their teachers put together a great performance, ‘Melody & Beats’, that transported the audience across the diverse states of India and its different beats. Mrs Jaya Krishnaswamy and her team’s efforts and attention to detail was evident in the live music, the display of the children’s creativity in the backdrop and the conduct of the entire programme. Yet, the phantom presence of the late Krishnaswamy, the father of MNC was felt. The Chief Guest for the programme was Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited.
Preetha Reddy praised the attitude of the centre in its policy of zero rejection for entry to this centre and enabling every special child seeking its expertise to benefit from the centre. She also marvelled at the mother-teacher support provided to the child and the way mothers and teachers were taught to learn and cope with disability.
"In our hospitals, people come for treatment and they get cured. In a centre like this, treatment is a long-term commitment. The people at MNC must be something next to God to be able to do something like this.
The Sanmar family has gone out of the way to help such a cause. The Group has helped to set traditions, facilitated learning and provided IT infrastructure to the centre. The programs of the centre have been tremendously successful and it is important to spread the learning of the centre all over India.
I am inspired by the dedication, the passion to understand, to learn what’s been done worldwide and bring the learning to the children at this centre. I commend the work of the centre. If many more institutions can emulate this it would be great."
The Madhuram Narayanan Centre (MNC) convened the 2nd International Conference on Early Intervention in Mental Retardation from 13 to 16 December 2007, an international forum for knowledge sharing by experts in the area of mental retardation. The first such conference was held in 2004. Taking on from the learnings of the earlier conference, the theme this year was the recent trends in early intervention for prevention, care and management of children with mental retardation and associated disabilities. The event included a two-day pre-conference workshop and an exhibition of teaching aids used by MNC in its early intervention programme. The speakers and panelists at the conference included experts in the field drawn from India and overseas. Topics included:
• Early diagnosis in mental retardation and associated disabilities: Recent trends in research in genetics
• Partners in early intervention programmes for prevention through care in: Nutrition, health & environment, mother and child
• Information and communication technology enablers in the management of disability
• Policy and programmes in making the rights of the child with disability a reality through - Persons with Disability Act, 1995, National Trust Act, 2001, Rehabilitation Council Act, 1983.
Inauguration of the conference by Mrs Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan, Honourable Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment. N Kumar of The Sanmar Group (left) and Vimala Kannan of MNC (right) are also seen here.
Mrs Jaya Krishnaswamy with delegates
Exhibition of teaching aids of MNC’s early intervention programme.
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