chandigarh a group of pgi doctors has pledged to contribute a part of their salaries towards helping unknown aged and orphan patients who do not have their loved ones near them during their stay in the hospital from our savings we will generate a fund for such patients the first 24 hours in the emergency are free thereafter there is no monetary help for medicines or other diagnostic tests at that time our funds can help them said dr shiv soni former president of the association of resident doctors ard who pioneered the idea hundreds of patients visit the emergency daily most of them are unknown accident victims in the absence of family support these patients feel low besides providing them with financial help we will also try to rope in some social activists who can talk to them and take care of them during their hospital admission said dr ankush singla president of ard to revive the good old doctorpatient relationship we thought of providing such a help said dr dinesh bagria of general surgery department though there are some clinicians who give money from their pockets to the needy patients it sometimes becomes difficult to look out for many such cases our group has specialists from most of the departments so we can easily locate such patients said dr pradeep kumar general secretary of ard