KOCHI:
Patients of the Government General hospital here eagerly await the weekly ‘ Arts and Medicine’ programme that falls every Wednesdays. But this week it came a day early on Tuesday as the city is all set to welcome contemporary art gala, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018, to be inaugurated on Wednesday.
It was the turn of the student members of the’ Interact Club” of Toc H school, Vyttila, to team up for the musical show for the patients organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation at the hospital. The club, comprising students from grades five to twelve, utilise the little sums they raise as voluntary contributions to help destitute homes, orphanages and the poor and needy.
“We were planning to provide clothes to the cancer patients on our visit to the hospital, and we realised that we could give them therapeutic music too along with the supplies by rendering a few songs for their solace. It is an amiable gesture to make students understand they could help in their own way the people in need, “said Suresh Babu, teacher and in-charge of the club.
Students Krishna Priya, Pranav S Raj, Ganga Sunil Kumar , Surya Raj, Bhagya Sudheer, Nikhil S Nair, Gopika Sunil Kumar, Muhammed Adeeb, Arunima A S , Krishna Nanda, Jobin gave their best at the 247th episode of the programme.
A joint initiative of KBF and Mehboob Memorial Orchestra, the Arts and Medicine programme started in 2014 February as a weekly feature that provides solace to patients. The programme, conducted on the lawns of the hospital, creates a relieving ambience to the listeners, who gather under the bamboo trees savouring the music to the very core.
A total of sixteen songs were sung by the students in turns, with their teachers in support and friends applauding between every rendition. A prayer song marked the beginning of the concert and a Christmas Carol denoting the festivities concluded the programme. Principal of Toc H Public school , Juby Paul, made an introductory speech and thanked the foundation for its efforts.
