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A Lifetime Of Service: 85-Year-Old Pediatrician Provides Free Rural Healthcare

Dr. Subarna Devi how a retired Pediatrician reduced infant mortality in Ganjam and Gajapati districts

Ganjam: For 27 years, 85-year-old P. Subarna Devi, a senior pediatrician from Ganjam district, has offered free healthcare to children. After retiring from a prominent Odisha medical college in 1998, she established the Oneness Children's Clinic in a village near Gopalpur to serve the poor.

Her decision was driven by the recognition that rural areas had few doctors. A former pediatrician, at Berhampur Medical College and at others, including Burla, Cuttack, and Berhampur, she began serving the poor, never looking back after retirement.

Subarna says, "There are many pediatricia

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