The Shri Onkar Singh Memorial Trust has been continuing with its benevolent work, providing free surgical and medical treatment to thousands of poor and needy patients. The Trust held its twenty-third free surgical cum medical camp at the peripheral town of Ranbir Singh Pura (R S Pura) in the Jammu district of the J & K State. Only some nineteen kilometers from the city of Jammu, R S Pura is close to the Indo-Pakistan border. Before the partition of India in 1947, this town was on the railway line connecting Jammu with the now Pakistani city of Sialkot. After partition, Jammu remained without a rail link with the rest of India till the nineteen-seventies when the Pathankot-Jammu line was established.

The Background

The Trust has organized several camps in the Jammu region, mainly in the interiors of this mountainous area. It was this time decided to approach the border area which is no better, as far as medical facilities are concerned, when compared with the remote interiors of the Jammu Province. The matter was discussed with Dr Jasbir Singh, the Director Health Services, Jammu, who graciously offered to us the premises of the Sub District Hospital R S Pura as the venue for our camp activities. Click here for additional pictures of the April Camp.

The next medical camp sponsored by SOSMT will be held in the village of Dwarhat, near Ranikhet in Almora district of Uttarakhand. The dates are August 29th through September 4th, 2010.

Additionally, the SOSMT has constructed a small building at Nougran as a part of their larger plan for a hospital with the aim of providing free medical and surgical treatment to the poor and the needy. The Mini Medical Camp in March 2010 was held in Nougran in this part of the planned hospital only. If all goes well, the SOSMT shall try to hold some of their future camps in the premises of this building. As and when the resources are available, the hospital structure will be constructed. 

Dr. K S Charak holds the degree of Master of Surgery from the University of Delhi (India), and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons from the UK. Presently he is the Head of the department of surgery at the Indira Gandhi ESI Hospital, at Jhilmil in Delhi (India). Dr. K S Charak leads the charitable organization, SOSMT, which is devoted to providing free surgical and medical care to the poor and the ailing in the rural areas of the northern India. 

The  Foundation invites you to join hands with us in providing medical relief to the under served in India through initiatives similiar Dr. K S Charak’s free medical camps. There are several ways you may choose to support such causes.