Premchand Jain The Karmayogi
It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology.
It is a time not just
for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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Dr. Premchand Jain
1909-1974
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First Hospital
est. in 1902
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In those times Tuberculosis (TB) was an incurable disease and TB patients were considered outcastes. But
to Dr Premchand it was an illness to be cured with compassion and love. While the TB patients were being
ostracized by society, he and his wife took these patients into their fold and provided treatment. Not only
this - Shanti Devi even cooked for the patients and washed their clothes!
When Dr Premchand had lost his mother, his father had remarried. Dr Premchand and his wife took care
of his half brothers as if they were their own children. He encouraged them to become doctors and all of
them are indeed doctors par excellence.
In spite of the fact that Dr Hemraj and Dr Premchand did not receive any formal education, they were
voracious readers, especially of books related to medical literature. They, in the course of their lifetime
had created a library of books, both in Urdu and English, detailing many different ailments and their
cure in the Unani and Allopathic systems of medicine.
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