In Telangana a young woman named Nalini chose the path of medicine and specialised in the care of children. She joined the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research—JIPMER—in Puducherry, rose to become Professor and later Head of the Department of Paediatrics, and taught generations of young doctors.

During her years at JIPMER she began to see children whose lives were shadowed by haemophilia—a bleeding disorder that turned every small injury into a crisis and every treatment into a heavy financial burden. The medicines were expensive and often unavailable. Families struggled in silence.

After a decade of service she took voluntary retirement so that she could devote herself entirely to these patients. She founded the Haemophilia Society of Puducherry and, with support from the state government and Indian Oil Corporation, established a dedicated health centre at Thattanchavady. Today nearly three hundred patients receive care, counselling and life-saving factor concentrates through the centre—many of them free or at minimal cost.

One mother, after her son received timely treatment, told her, “Doctor, we had lost hope. The medicine was beyond our reach.”

Nalini answered gently, “No child should suffer because a family cannot afford the right treatment. That is why we are here.”

She has spent more than thirty years raising awareness, training families, advocating for free medicines in government hospitals, and walking alongside patients from childhood into adulthood. Her own earnings often filled the gaps when funds ran short.

In 2023 the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri for her contribution to medicine and her tireless service to people living with haemophilia. She dedicated the honour to every patient and every haemophilia society across the country.

From the wards of JIPMER to the quiet rooms of the Thattanchavady centre, Dr. Nalini Parthasarathi has turned specialised knowledge into steady, compassionate care—proving that the greatest medicine is often the refusal to look away from those who need it most.