G.S. Memorial Trust

G S Memorial Trust

It was formed by Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh son of Late Gyan Singh on 31st March, 2004 .Late Giri Raj Kumari, mother of Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh and wife of Late Gyan Singh, was the settlor of the Trust.

The main purpose of the trust is to provide medical services and all kinds of assistance to the children borne with cleft lip and palate, and other deformities, patients in need suffering from cancer, AIDS and other such diseases, to the patients suffering from accidental burns and other injuries and to educate, inform, and spread public awareness regarding various preventable and treatable deformities and diseases.

The trust also works for outreach programs and camps to identify and locate needy patients with clefts of the lip and palate and post burn deformities.

Over the period of 18 years it helped more than 25000 cleft patients and helped in getting them more than 38000 surgeries. It coordinated with Smile Train in identifying and providing surgical and comprehensive treatment for cleft patients.

The trust organized hundreds of camps in the states of UP, BIHAR, JHARKHAND, MADHYA PRADESH, ODISHA, WEST BENGAL, ASSAM, CHATTISGARH and ARUNACHAL PRADESH, of India.

Tremendous work of the trust led to making of “Smile Pinki”, an Academy award, Oscar winning documentary. This became the most widely watched medical documentary worldwide and brought an unprecedented awareness about cleft . This helped hundreds of thousands of cleft patients worldwide..

The trust also worked for identifying and facilitating the treatment of more than 6000 burned patients, again from the same areas. It coordinated with an organization named WonderWork and helped these patients get rid of their crippling and disfiguring deformities that allowed them to go back to the social main stream and live their lives happily.

This led to the making of another documentary called, Before and After: How Plastic Surgery Changed This Girl’s Life”. This documentary first shown of National Geographic home page, became viral worldwide and won several awards including Davey’s Gold award and AIB awards.

The trust did tremendous activities to educate doctors and common public by organizing several training programs and webinars and with the use of social media during 2020-2021 for prevention and treatment of covid.. It also helped in providing telemedicine services during Covid period .

It coordinated with a telemedicine company Ecure healthcare and a hospital, G S Memorial Plastic Surgery Hospital ( set up by Dr. Subodh kumar Sigh) and helped Covid patients locate available beds in the city and state hospitals, receive immunization and receive treatment in various Covid hospitals.

It also coordinated with several doctors across the country who provided telemedicine services to Covid patient as a campaign Covid Care@RS 1. With Ecure it ran an ambulance to help Covid patients transfers to the hospitals FREE of Charge ..

It helped in public education and awareness during Covid and also organized several webinars for the education of doctors in the eastern Uttar Pradesh.