Legendary Doctor Thangaraj, Rs 10 for a consultation
Posted on: 25/Jun/2018 3:44:31 PM
Chennai Velachery holds a pride in sharing the locality with the legendary doctor Mr. Thangaraj, a 75-year old physician who is practicing even today, clinic established in 1975. He is claimed to be the first doctor to put a clinic ever in Velachery serving people by charging very less money as consultation fee. Now he charges only Rs 10 for a patient’s visit and most of the times the illness gets completely cured said the benefiters of the clinic.
Sometimes Dr. Thangaraj do not charge anything from the people with very poor financial background.
Initial years
Thangaraj wanted to study Engineering but the family insisted him to do medicine owing to this high score in SSLC examinations. He finished his graduation from Madras Medical College and started to treat poor people as a form of charity guided by his mother. In 1975 he shifted to Velachery declining a government job offer. Those times Velachery was still in a developing phase and do not have any kind of special facilities for medical emergencies.
Dr. Thangaraj collected Rs 2 as consultation fee in those times followed by a fee fixation of Rs 5 after several years. Now he charges only Rs 10 as fee irrespective of the patient’s condition and economical background.
Challenges faced by Dr. Thangaraj
He faced many peer pressure to raise the charges and also to prescribe multiple medication courses for the patients visiting his clinic. But Thangaraj had never given ears to any of those stressful conditions. He firmly believes that 95 percentage of illness prevails as the result of mental blockage and not physical issues. So he make sure to educate his patients about the illness and the mental reliability in curing each cases. Most of the times he do not prescribe any kind of medication and cures the illness through counselling sessions.
Some clinics around the area were shut down as the people were always rushing down to Dr. Thangaraj for their physical and mental issues.
Later he started a special center for physically challenged people. Many patients gave extra fee voluntarily to help him establish the center for free treatment.
Motto behind the service
Dr. Thangaraj always insist on gaining a mutual trust between the healer and patients. If the patient do not trust then the placebo effect of natural cure of a disease will never take place. He goes around the entire state to run free medical camp and to create awareness about healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Thangaraj conducts free medical camp in remote villages every month. The camps are arranged in the areas where there is no medical facility. For more information and to know further details about the legendary doctor, one can reach him through this contact number 73581 98853.
