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Baichung Bhutia lends support to walk for Northeast cancer patients

| | Jan 06, 2016, at 05:36 pm
Kolkata, Jan 6 (IBNS): Former India captain Baichung Bhutia, who himself saw his father suffering from cancer, is lending his support to a walk in Kolkata to raise awareness and support the victims of the deadly disease from the Northeast region in particular.

Walk For A Cause will held on  Jan 10 morning from Territorial Army Ground (Park Str, Maidans) and is being organized for the underprivileged cancer patients of Northeast India by the  North East Officers and Professionals Welfare Association (NEOPWA), an NGO, in collaboration with Tata Medical Centre

"My father was a cancer patient himself, so this is something very close to my heart," former Indian captain Bhutia said on Tuesday at a press conference ahead of the event here. 

 
Baichung Bhutia is the Goodwill Ambassador for this event.

This fund raising event is the first signature event of NEOPWA for aid of poor cancer patients from the North East coming to Kolkata for treatment at Tata Medical Centre.

Amitabha Gan Chaudhuri, Secretary of NEPOWA, said, " NEPOWA Walkathon is our first noble attempt for a divine cause to support the underprivileged cancer patients coming from Northeast. It is also to build awareness among the people of Kolkata and North East about the deadliest faces and perils of cancer."

(Reporting by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Images by Parantap Banerjee)

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