-As He Provides Hot, Cooked Meal for Monrovia Central Prison Inmates
IPNEWS: The CEO of Jeety Conglomerate, Dr. Upjit Singh Sachdeva, has been praised by Liberia’s biggest referral hospital — John F. Kennedy Medical Center — for making available funding to treat eye cancer in the left eye of a child.
Providing an update about the treatment on their Facebook page, JFK Hospital said the kid was a child from a poor family, the entire treatment was done at no charge to the family through combined efforts of the Liberia Eye Center- LV Prasad Eye Institute, JFK Medical Center and Mr. Sachdeva, who is more famously known in Liberia as Mr. Jeety.
“Mr. Sachdeva generously [provides] supports for chemotherapy of children with eye cancers at the Liberia Eye Center,” JFK said.
According to the Hospital, “At the end of treatment, the mother said, ‘I don’t care if the doctors removed her eye but am happy that now she does not have eye pain and her life is saved. “So overall I am so happy for my daughter.’”
The Ophthalmologist(s) at JFK removed the cancerous eye of the child and replaced it with an artificial eye, which they say, is serving good purpose to match with the other eye.
JFK further said that such complex treatments are now possible at their Eye Clinic and patients don’t need to travel to other countries for treatment.
Background Provided by JFK
Miss Annie’s (Not her real name) mother noticed that her left eye looked different from the age of 6 months. She asked several people in her community and all replied that ‘some children are born like that, and they become alright with time.’ As time passed, the eye started looking worse and the mother got alerted.
Through a friend she got to know about the eye clinic at the JFK Hospital and decided to come here. After thorough examination, the doctors told her that the child had eye cancer in left eye and needed CT scan of her brain to check if it has spread to the brain.
The children’s doctors at the JFK administered six cycles of chemotherapy, which helped the tumor to shrink. Then the eye surgeon removed the eye. After 2 months they fitted an artificial eye to match with the other eye. The chemotherapy continues for another 6 months and thus 12 cycles of chemotherapy were completed.
Meanwhile, Mr. Jeety on Sunday, January 29 told this newspaper that not every humanitarian gesture he does needs to be publicized in the press.
“I thank God that I am able to help a child get her sight. At least the pain has stopped. She can now play freely with her friends,” he said.
He said that he has committed himself to providing the funding to treat any child that comes to the eye clinic with such medical condition.
The humanitarian refused to say how much he spends to treat one case. However, a JFK Hospital staff with knowledge of the finances disclosed that it most times costs Mr. Jeety over US$2000 per case.
Dr. Jeety Provides Hot Meal for Inmates
Meanwhile, Mr. Jeety has begun his many humanitarian gestures for 2023 at the Monrovia Central Prison by providing hot, cooked, nutritional meal to the over 1300 inmates incarcerated within that facility.
Before he handed more than 20 huge tubs of cooked rice and over 15 buckets of tasty bean soup to the prison authority on Sunday, January 29, Jeety, a business tycoon, called on other businesspeople to step out of their comfort zones to help those who are in need.
“As I normally say, it’s better to give than to receive. And I urge every fellow businessman around here, that we should continue to serve humanity. If every businessman and woman living in the length of Liberia starts to feed at least 10 persons a day, I can guarantee that no one will sleep with hunger in Liberia.”
Dr. Sachdeva, who is a former Honorary Consul General of India, further said, “Don’t give to get, give to inspire others.”
Included in the food items that he provided for the inmates were several cases of soda (soft drink), sacs of water and cartons of cake.
He then thanked the prison authority for always allowing him and his team to come in and out of the prison facilities to provide amenities for the facilities.
Responding to Jeety’s gesture, Mr. Joel Justin G. Juah, Deputy Superintendent for Administration, Monrovia Central Prison, thanked the Indian businessman for his humanitarian gesture.
