Children with cancer have a good chance of surviving. But where do you find a pediatric ward and that too in a government hospital, that everyone can go to?
Dr Sudha Sinha took the initiative to set up a pediatric ward at the MNJ Hospital in Hyderabad. Somehow space was carved out for 13 beds in 2008 and today there are 86 beds. Dr Sinha had trained and practised in the US. She worked in a private hospital when she returned to Hyderabad. But it was in the government-run MNJ Hospital that she made a lasting difference. . . .