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Dr Parul Banker
Enough has been spoken about women power, women's liberalization. Not in any such
race to prove a point, this is one woman, always occupied in a diverse array of
activities that leaves no space or time to even think of such race. Isn't it said
that people who make history, don't have the time to write it? Here is one such
woman,
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DR PARUL BANKER (MBBS) (MASTER OF SURGERY (ENT))
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CONSULTANT ENT SURGEON |
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MEDICAL DIRECTOR, BANKERS HEART INSTITUTE, Vadodara |
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MANAGING TRUSTEE, YASH PUBLIC CHARITABLE TRUST |
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CEO, BANKERS NURSING INSTITUTE |
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Coming from a modest background, with no spoons in the mouth, Parul Banker, through
her sheer zeal and energy to be constantly engaged in activities that groom her
horizon and the society at large, has sprung many a miles leaping into that league
of the extra-ordinary, that would pose an ideal, a role model for a middle-class,
small town woman of India.
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Initiating, but not restraining her career as an ENT surgeon, she finished her masters
from the Baroda Medical College, and after valuable experience at prestigious Nair
and Wadia hospitals at Mumbai for two years, she took to Gujarat, her home-town,
back again to make it her Karma-Bhoomi. Gathering all her spirits, foresight and
determination, she became the guiding force behind the success stories of not only
the man, the celebrated cardiologist Dr. Darshan Banker, but also the mammoth organization
Bankers Heart Institute. This became the pioneer institute in the city catering
to a wide variety of state-of-the-art cardiology services of international quality
to the doorstep of the average Gujarati at highly affordable prices. With a further
gush of the humanitarian drive, she founded the Yash Charitable Trust working for
the upliftment of the health-services of the under-privileged in untrodden villages
far and wide; and also initiated the trend of taking health education to the schools
via quizzes, competitions and other academic endeavour. Then a project, now a mission,
to create cardiologists of the highest repute at her own motherland, Gujarat, through
the DNB Cardiology programme as an offering to the society, repaying the debts to
the mother, speaks only of her insight and vision. In continuing with her zest,
she has now ventured to expand the supporting paramedical staff in modern health
care with the Bankers Nursing Institute, which shall train and produce nursing staff
of the highest quality.
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Traveling tireless, working restless, all the time engaged in turning dreams into
missions and then a reality and then seeing new dreams again; and yet keeping a
very low profile, almost unsung, unheard ? is what we associate Dr. Parul Banker
with.
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The following is a glimpse of her multi-faceted activities. |
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Camps:
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She is actively involved in conducting free and concessional camps for poor patients
and general public awareness and healthy lifestyle promotion at various places of
Gujarat and surrounding. Thus she takes the benefits of the modern day advances
in medical sciences to the doorstep of the common man. Till date, she has organized
more than two hundred camps. |
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Yash Public Charitable Trust:
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Without forgetting the human touch, the Yash Public charitable trust, where Dr.
Parul Banker is the Managing Trustee and she is actively involved in rural health
awareness and health promotion among the under-privileged. It also extends moral,
social and financial support to assist poor and needy patients with expensive surgeries
and interventions, free echocardiography all the year round. It has also moved ahead
by helping NGOs and charitable trusts working for orphaned street children in slums
and on railway platforms. |
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Rally:
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Under leadership of Dr. Parul Banker, Bankers Heart Institute organizes rally on
the occasion of the World Heart Day annually for general public awareness wherein,
the aim is to bring forward the benefits of healthy life style. Almost 7000 people
participate in this rally. People from all walks of life participate in this rally.
Schools, Corporate, banks, colleges, Senior Citizens, and General Public are amongst
the participants.
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Education:
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Being a front-runner in medical and academics field she takes upon us the social
responsibility to inculcate benefits of healthy lifestyle as well as general health
awareness in today's youth. Once a year on the World heart day we, along with all
schools of Vadodara organize Health quiz for students in the school premises. The
finals are, as per tradition held on the World Heart Day at the institute. Today's
Healthy youth is tomorrow's healthy and wealthy nation. The institute also invites
higher secondary children periodically for career counseling. |
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Heart Exhibition:
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To create awareness in the General Public Dr. Parul Banker has started a new trend
through this kind of exhibitions where Posters on Heart, Hypertension, DM, Diet,
Exercise, yoga, General health etc were exhibited in the exhibition, with a full
collection of posters, brochures, and Audio- Visual presentations. Mainly her target
are schools, colleges, corporate, senior citizen organizations, and peripheral towns
of Baroda at regular intervals to make bring forward presentations and exhibit collection
of Posters. Main goal is to reach the most educated individual as well as the underprivileged
and less educated individuals and groups of the society. Keeping this in mind exhibition
material is in English, Hindi and Gujarati.
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CME:
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Since her active and deep involvement in the Bankers Heart Institute she has organized
more than 100 CME (Continuous Medical Education) programmes to share and broaden
knowledge and perspective in the field of medicine and cardiology. 'Cardcon', a
national CME, is being conducted regularly for the last 5 Years. Around 500 physicians
from all over the country participate in Cardcon. Where in cardiologists and cardiac
surgeons of international repute are the speakers. Other CME's are also held in
Vadodara, its peripheral towns as well as all over Gujarat includes Surat, Bharuch,
Nadiad, Anand, Halol Godhra and Dahod. Outside Gujarat we have organized cme's in
Bhopal, Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, Banswara in Rajasthan.
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Religious and Spirituals Aspects:
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Working with various social and religious heads to bring together citizens of various
communities and sects, irrespective of the social/religious status, she builds the
Bridge to celebrate communal harmony to lay down the formation of a strong, secular
and progressive Indian society. |
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Socialite :
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Taking the support and co-operation of the corporate sector she walks hand in hand
with the who's who of the society, to improvise on the corporate-social responsibilities.
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To the lady standing at the horizon, bringing the skies to the earth, standing tall
but feet grounded, here's a humble salutation to the real 'woman of substance'.
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