This is the story of Dr T Veeraraghavan, popularly known as the 'Two Rupee Doctor' who has been quietly serving the underprivileged in North Chennai for more than four decades.
The real life hero, 67-year-old Thiruvengadam Veeraraghavan, completed his MBBS in Stanley Medical College. Since 1973, he has served residents of Vyasarpadi, accepting just Rs 2 as his fee. He later increased it to Rs 5. He became so popular that other doctors in the neighbourhood got together and protested, demanding he take at least Rs 100 as consultation fee.
Thiruvengadam retorted with a prescription of his own — he stopped accepting fee from his patients. They could pay him just about anything — small sums they could afford, eatables or nothing at all. Since he was an Associate Fellow in Industrial Health (AFIH), a corporate hospital engages him for screening job aspirants, and it gave him a steady income.
Read more of this in a report by A Sevaraj published in Times of India....
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