Delhi's 'Medicine Baba' 79 years gets drugs from rich, gives to poor' :- The chatty, 79-year-old retired blood-bank technician has been collecting unused prescription drugs from the affluent for the past eight years, and distributing whatever hasn't expired to patients who need medicines they cannot afford.
Omkarnath, who like many Indians uses only one name, is not a trained pharmacist, and must see a doctor's prescription before he'll help supply any drug. He doesn't charge, though he says the value of what he gives away each month is more than Rs 5 lakhs.
"Every bungalow in Delhi has extra medicines, but they are throwing them in their dustbins," says Omkarnath, who walks with a limp after an accident that left him with dislocated bones in both legs.
Private hospitals generally have better supplies, but they charge far more than what hundreds of millions of impoverished Indians can afford.
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