01Jun/19

Meet Vinod, Kerala auto driver who ferries cancer patients and their families for free – The News Minute

Meet Vinod, Kerala auto driver who ferries cancer patients and their families for free  The News Minute

Vinod Kumar KV lets a couple of calls go unanswered, and there are many coming in every few minutes. Parked on the Manaveeyam Veedi in Thiruvananthapuram, Vinod’s auto rickshaw – if you know his story – can be spotted from a distance. It’s the one with the words ‘Cancer Care for Life’ written on top, in red bold letters. He has just come to the city from the Regional Cancer Centre, where every day his rickshaw plies between 9 am and 1 pm, taking the patients and bystanders coming out of the hospital or towards it, for free. He has been doing that for seven years. “I don’t ask them anything …