The Unknown- Omkar Nath Sharma

Omkar Nath Sharma born in India (around 1940) otherwise called the Medicine Baba (Prescription Priest). is a resigned blood donation centre specialist from Kailash Hospital, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, who wilfully gathers unused medications from individuals and conveys them to the poor for nothing out of pocket. Omkar began gathering drug in the wake of understanding the intense medication deficiency, when he saw the Delhi Metro under-development connect fallen in East Delhi in 2008, killing two workers and harming numerous others. The neighbourhood emergency clinic controlled essential medical aid however nothing else. The harmed got back to pass on being not able to manage the cost of the expense of treatment. That episode shook Omkar and he got resolved to not let something like this happen once more. Injured at 12 years old in a fender bender, Omkar strolls five or six kilometres for each day. Toward the finish of each assortment, Omkar cautiously indexes everything in his cover the name of the medication, the producer, where he gathered it and the expiry date. Omkar makes no benefit from these. Omkar lives with his significant other and a 45-year-old simple-minded child.

Medications in his assortment that can be helpful to emergency clinics (like those required for the treatment of malignant growth), are given to emergency clinics like AIIMS, Dr Smash Manohar Lohia Emergency clinic, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Medical clinic, Woman Irwin Medicinal School, and a couple of ashrams and dispensaries in Delhi. He says that he gives meds worth Rs. 4-6 lakhs consistently.

Medicine Baba says his primary mission is not simply to gather medications. The need is to create awareness among individuals so that they reconsider before disposing of valuable professionally prescribed medications. For him, the fulfilment that he encounters on observing individuals get recuperated with the assistance of drugs he gives is sufficient. He is glad for his work and this is the thing that gives him the motivation to continue pushing ahead in spite of his age.

As a retired person, Omkar Nath faces troublesome occasions attempting to make a decent living now and again. His family incorporates his better half, a child, a little girl, and a grand daughter. He deals with his work with the assistance of gifts he gets from individuals every now and then. Other than that, he is likewise now and then found in transports and metros, telling individuals about patients who need money related assistance.

By: Soumya Jha