Kamal Shah!

(Dear Friends! please read this and must watch the article published in HINDU daily)

Kamal Shah, Co-founder and Director, Patient services of Nephroplus, kidney care clinics.

Kamal is an Indan-Idol for kidney patients. He, himself being a dialysis patient, the will power what he has is enormous. No words are sufficient to appreciate his good work done in Kidney patient services and the work done in educating the kidney patients.

To my surprise, Kamal invited me and Ayodhya ram to a movie and last Sunday we had been to Eega at Prasads Imax. Honestly speaking, for that evening I was watching movie with kamal was like a dream. I still can’t believe that it happened. Thank you kamal!

An article about him is featured in the largest circulated daily news paper ‘THE HINDU’!

(Proud of you Kamal! Keep it up.)

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/society/article3763299.ece

(Here is a short message how I met him and made myself positive about the life with dialysis)

I had seen him first time in the month of Jan’ 2010 at Jain trust while Dialysis coupons distribution activity. Those were the days; I had completely lost hope in my life as my transplanted kidney also failed by then and my doctor advised me to start and be on regular dialysis. That meant I had to reach dialysis center every other day almost. The hell…

But there I saw this miracle man!

Till then I had no clue at all that such a wonderful, down-to- earth personality living in this part of world. I saw him there at Jain Trust, having a bunch of pamphlets in one hand and holding the mike in other, announcing about the invitation for all the patients to attend one full day fun program being organized at Hotel Fortune select Mahohar. That was on 6th Feb 2011. The event called 'Aashayein - Let's celebrate life' (The one day exclusive free event for dialysis patients). There I had carefully observed the patient educational talks by nephrologists, urologists, dietitians and also few patients. I had never thought for such an event that would be made for all the patients. I learnt so much there about the importance of blood tests, diet, medication, dialysis and how to get the adequacy in dialysis and also how to protect the AV Fistula which is life line for the dialysis patient. There was also being a whole lot of fun and games like antakshari etc. exclusively for dialysis patients. And an elaborate lunch served as per the dialysis patient diet.

The event Aashayen-2011 was a hit. The way Kamal organized the event was really great. For anyone it is very difficult to imagine the hard work and tremendous negotiations he might had with nephrologists, urologists, dieticians in inviting them to attend the program for making it success. Who cares for the patient events? Again it is difficult to imagine his initiatives! and assume how nicely he would have convinced so many intellectuals and event sponsors to make his wonderful thought a reality.

He also maintaining a web site naming “Hyderabad Kidney foundation” in which he launches a newsletter regularly providing information  exclusively for patients of kidney disease, whether on hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, transplant recipients or any other kidney disease.

Again this year in 19^th February 2012, he extraordinarily organized the annual event Aashayen-2012. This time it created a sensation and a huge hit by participation of more number of patients. He also initiated with a new event called “Patient support group talks” inviting all the kidney patients to get together and discuss their problems and involving medical professionals for advising them.

Is it not something that he is doing more that expecting? Thank you once again Kamal! I am very grateful to you always.