Perinthalmanna to honour son of soil Dr Venugopal
Founder of group that provides emergency medical aid to be felicitated.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-12-12 07:00 GMT
Malappuram: Emergency medicine expert Dr P.P. Venugopal, 51, of Perinthalmanna, has helped several accident victims survive with his timely help. He had recently bagged the national award instituted by the Society for Emergency Medicine, India, for his meritorious service as founder and executive director of ANGELS (Active Network Group of Emergency Life Savers).
The citizens of Perinthalmanna would give Dr Venugopal, working at the Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences, Kozhikode (MIMS Hospital), a reception at the Cosmopolitan Club, Perinthalmanna, at 4 p.m. on Saturday.
He was born in 1964 to a farming family with strong Communist moorings in Cherukara, a hamlet near Elamkulam, the land of EMS Namboothiripad. He always kept alive the innocence of the villager in him, said the organizers of the programme, the Cherukad Memorial Trust, Cherukara.
ANGELS, the organization founded by him, has expanded to many other states, including Karnataka and Bengal.
Venu started dreaming high during his childhood when he assisted his father in ploughing. Dr Venugopal told DC that he was happy that he could extend his service for the accident victims, who would have died on the way to hospitals due to lack of expert care.
Venu is an admirer of writers Sara Joseph and Deshamangalam Ramakrishnan. He belongs to the 1981 batch of Kozhikode Medical College.
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