NGO opens free cloth store for poor at CMCH

November 03, 2018 07:58 am | Updated 07:58 am IST - COIMBATORE

Chandrans Yuva Foundation, an non-governmental organisation, on Friday opened a free cloth store at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for the benefit of in-patients, as part of its initiative ‘Deepavali For All’

CMCH on an average has 2,500 inpatients at any given point in time. The initiative is a brain child of Sivanesan, founder, and Sasikala, director of Yuva Foundation.

The store was opened by Sujith Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Coimbatore City, in the presence of B. Asokan, Dean of Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, and R. Soundiravel, Resident Medical Officer, CMCH.

Yuva Foundation first opened a sanitary napkin vending machine and now the free cloth store, which will be a permanent shop for the benefit of in-patients. CMCH had given the in-patient details, based on which clothes have been procured.

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