Med-Drive

‘The happiest people in the world are those who make others happy’ 

Lack of access to medicines causes a cascade of misery and suffering with no relief form the excruciating pain. Bridging this divide between availability and need, the NSS collective of the College has organised MED-DRIVE for an old age home, Tollygunge Homes 186, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Rd, Regent Park, Kolkata, West Bengal 700040. 

On December 20, 2021, three students representing NSS collective and the NSS coordinator visited Tollygunge Homes with a box full of medicines contributed by the students and faculty members of the College. The contributed medicine and essential items included:

1. Hand Sanitizers-100 bottles
2. Mebeverine Hydrochloride Modified Release Capsules- 20 (2 strips)
3. Iron (Ferric Pyrophosphate)- 20 capsules (2 strips)
4. Zincovit – 4strips
5. Calpol- 6 strips
6. P650- 10 strips
7. Pyrigesic- 60 strips
8. Cream Cracker Biscuits- 4 packets
9. Antacid antigas chewable tablets- 3 strips
10. ORS – 1 box 40 sachets
11. Cotton- 1 box
12. 1 crepe bandage
13. Cefpodoxime Proxetil and Potassium Clavulante Tablets- 1 strip
14. Bandaids and surgical gauze – 2 boxes
15. Knee cap – 1
16. 1 lactulose solution
17. 1L Dettol 
18. 60 ml Dettol
19. 2 Odomos and 1 Boroline
20. 3 handmade soap
21. 2 seroflo 250 inhalers
22. Alegra 180-1strip
23. Calpol 650- 2 strips
24. Saroglitazar Tablets-2strips
25. Ciprofloxacin Eye drops IP-1 bottle
26. Thyroxin Sodium Tablets-3 bottles
27. Calcium and Vitamin D3 Tablets- 5strips
28. Combiflame-10 tablets
29. Lansoprazole Orally Disintegrating Tablets- 8 tablets
30. Pacimol 650-1 strips
31. Rabeprazole Sodium Enteric coated and domperidone Sustained Release Capules-9 Tablets
32. Jaymol 650- 1strip
33. Zofer-8 tablets

We thank the management of college, Prof. Dilip Shah for their constant support to conduct the entire project without any hassle. We also thank all the students and faculty members who came forward for this noble cause. Due to COVID safety protocols we could not take too many volunteers. Taking all the precautions, three students Harshita Joshi, Pragra Rakesha and Muskan Das visited the old age home. We appreciate their courage and commitment to serve the society.

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It was our little effort to reflect the true motto of NSS “Not Me But You”.