When 65,000 doses of measles vaccines arrived, the city had no cold storage facility. S.L. Chitale, a well-known architect, approached H.V. Hande, the then State Health Minister and got approval to store the vaccine at Spencer Plaza. This effort paved the way for the polio immunisation plan, remembered J.B. Kamdar, past district governor of the Rotary Club of Madras, in his tribute to the man who created the Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital.
Mr. Kamdar was speaking at the commissioning of the renovated auditorium at the hospital here on Sunday.
It has been named after S.L. Chitale. “Mr. Chitale was the founder trustee of the hospital and was associated with every work in the hospital. Whatever work he did was done to perfection,” said S. Chandramohan, hospital chief executive officer.
