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Dr. Amrik Chattha, one of the Patiala Health Foundation co-founders, is raising funds to provide emergency health care to those who can’t access it in Patiala India via the Patiala Health Foundation. Donations of any size are appreciated and you’ll receive a signed copy of Safar: A Child's Walk To Freedom During the Partition of India.
In his new book Safar, Chattha recounts his own violent and traumatic experience as a ten-year-old Sikh boy migrating to India after the British drew a line demarcating India and Pakistan while sharing the stories of three others and examining the historical, cultural and political factors leading up to Partition. A practicing neurologist for forty-one years, he explores the neurobiology of violence and its link to religion and tells the story of his visit home years after his family was forced to flee.
The Patiala Health Foundation is a charitable organization that assists those in need by raising funds to build trauma centers in third world countries. Trauma centers built by the organization provide services for no charge or on a sliding scale to the underserved.
Trauma-related deaths occur every 1.9 minutes in India according to a published report in the India Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2004. With increased traffic and cars on roads, trauma will move up to its current position to be the third leading cause of death in India by 2020. This ten percent increase in deaths by injuries in Punjab between 1983 and 1992 demonstrates the alarming need for trauma-related facilities in the region.
No reliable institutional arrangements exist in India for the establishment of an efficient trauma care center. Currently, trauma systems are predominately supported by non-governmental organizations and private agencies like the Patiala Health Foundation.
In his new book Safar, Chattha recounts his own violent and traumatic experience as a ten-year-old Sikh boy migrating to India after the British drew a line demarcating India and Pakistan while sharing the stories of three others and examining the historical, cultural and political factors leading up to Partition. A practicing neurologist for forty-one years, he explores the neurobiology of violence and its link to religion and tells the story of his visit home years after his family was forced to flee.
The Patiala Health Foundation is a charitable organization that assists those in need by raising funds to build trauma centers in third world countries. Trauma centers built by the organization provide services for no charge or on a sliding scale to the underserved.
Trauma-related deaths occur every 1.9 minutes in India according to a published report in the India Journal of Critical Care Medicine 2004. With increased traffic and cars on roads, trauma will move up to its current position to be the third leading cause of death in India by 2020. This ten percent increase in deaths by injuries in Punjab between 1983 and 1992 demonstrates the alarming need for trauma-related facilities in the region.
No reliable institutional arrangements exist in India for the establishment of an efficient trauma care center. Currently, trauma systems are predominately supported by non-governmental organizations and private agencies like the Patiala Health Foundation.
Co-organizers (2)
Amrik Chattha
Organizer
Novato, CA
Patiala Health Foundation Inc
Beneficiary
Vijay Chattha
Co-organizer