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    Calcutta Telegraph, India
    Sunday, March 27, 2005

    First drop for cancer centre

    A STAFF REPORTER

    Calcutta, March 26: Siddhi Wohra's parents had collected over Rs 10 lakh
    from philanthropists for her bone marrow transplant.

    The couple - both doctors - could not save their 15-year-old daughter. But
    they will not let the money go waste. The Wohras will donate the sum for the
    construction of a new cancer hospital in the city.

    The 500-bedded hospital, part of Dr Devi Shetty's dream of building a health
    city here, is his fourth major project after the Rabindranath Tagore
    International Institute for Cardiac Sciences, Shankar Netralaya and the
    Armenian Church Trauma Centre.

    In a live video-conference from Bangalore today, Shetty spoke to the Wohras.
    "We want the world to know that the money has been donated for a noble
    cause," Swati, Siddhi's mother, told him.

    The hospital, to be built on a 20-acre plot, will be the nerve centre for
    both cancer and bone marrow transplant.

    "The construction work will start in a few months.... We are hopeful that in
    two years' time the hospital will be ready," said Udayan Lahiri, the project
    administrator.
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