CET students to spruce up Vithura taluk hospital

Thiruvananthapuram: The National Service Scheme  unit of the College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram (CET) has planned to undertake  renovation work costing  Rs 8 lakh  at the Vithura taluk hospital with financial aid from the Punarjani initiative of the technical education department. This will be done during the seven-day camp being organised by the NSS unit  at Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Vithura, which was inaugurated by Vithura panchayat president S.L. Krishnakumari on Wednesday.

Mr Joy Varghese,  CET NSS programme officer, said over 120 NSS volunteers were  taking part in the camp  which will  take  up electrification of the houses of Bonacaud estate workers and distribute  food kits to financially backward students. The students repaired equipment, including those in the operation theatre, at the taluk hospital.  They also conducted maintenance of  water storage tanks and toilets and carried out painting and wiring, plumbing, waste disposal and cleaning.

The camp was being held under the leadership of Vismaya and Ramees,  NSS volunteer secretaries of CET.  Experts from various fields would take classes during the camp. The ‘Punarjani’ initiative  launched in 2013 had taken up the maintenance of non functional equipment in government hospitals.  It also repaired  damaged and out-of-use furniture. The NSS technical cell is holding such camps  in 55 government hospitals across the state during the Onam vacation.  It planned to   create assets worth Rs 18 crore through the seven-day camps in various hospitals.