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Adyar Cancer Institute appeals to public for donations
The Hindu
The appeal said the institute required funds to procure N95 masks, gloves, PPE kits, had to maintain equipment, purchase drugs and take care of the poor patients and staff.
The Cancer Institute, Adyar, has put out an appeal for donations citing the “unprecedented second wave (of COVID-19) that has started pulling us back in a big way.” Although all departments in the institute were functional but with the subsequent restrictions, the patient flow had been reduced to a small fraction of the normal operations. However, the institute’s operational expenses remained the same. “Our staff are excellent in doing dedicated service in spite of the serious risks involved,” the appeal read. “We have to continue to function, and the institute has always been in the forefront when it comes to taking care of poor and socio-economically weak patients, who get the standard treatment, totally free, pandemic or not.”![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.