By IANS
Nagpur : Eminent social worker Baba Amte was shifted to his Anandvan home Saturday after he spent a fortnight in a hospital here.
The 93-year old activist, diagnosed for leukaemia last week, will be kept under aseptic care in the leprosy asylum, 110 km from here, his son Vikas told IANS.
With doctors ruling out chemotherapy in view of Amte’s age and low blood count, he is on periodic platelet transfusion, which will continue in Anandvan, Vikas said.
“He is stable and cheerful at the prospect of being with ‘his people’ at the rehabilitation centre he founded half a century ago,” Amte’s younger son Prakash said.
The environmentalist and saviour of leprosy patients decorated with awards like Padmabhushan and Magasaysay had returned to Anandvan in 2002 after staying in Kasrawad in Madhya Pradesh for 15 years spearheading a movement against mega dams, particularly the Sardar Sarovar project on river Narmada.
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and Maharashtra deputy chief minister R.R. Patil were among the people who visited Amte in the Avanti hospital here.