Pinki Haryan’s inspirational path from street begging to becoming a doctor
After completing her MBBS in China, Pinki Haryan is getting ready to sit for the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which would allow her to practice medicine in India.
Pinki Haryan and her parents used to scrounge food from Mcleodganj’s trash dumps and beg on the streets. After two decades and a Chinese medical degree, she is currently studying nonstop to pass an exam that will allow her to start practicing medicine in India.
Haryan was seen begging in 2004 by Lobsang Jamyang, the director of a charitable trust situated in Dharamshala and a Tibetan exile monk. A few days later, he went to the Charan Khud slum cluster and saw the girl.
Then the difficult effort of persuading her parents—her father, Kashmiri Lal—to permit her to continue her education began. After hours of convincing, Lal gave in.
Haryan was accepted into the Dayanand Public School in Dharamshala and was one of the first pupils to live in a hostel for underprivileged kids that the charitable foundation established in 2004.
Initially, Haryan missed her home and parents, but she kept her focus on her studies, realizing that this was her ticket out of poverty, according to Ajay Srivastava, president of the NGO Umang Foundation, who has been involved with Jamyang for the past 19 years.
The outcomes soon demonstrated her commitment.
She was successful in both the senior secondary exam and the undergraduate National Eligibility and Entrance Test. According to Srivastava, the NEET is a national entrance exam for undergraduate medical programs.
But because the private medical colleges charged outrageous tuition, they remained closed to her. She was accepted into a prominent medical school in China in 2018 with the support of the Tong-Len Charitable Trust in the United Kingdom, and she recently returned to Dharamshala following the completion of her MBBS program, according to Srivastava.
Haryan is a licensed physician eager to help the impoverished and provide them with a better life after a 20-year wait.
“Since childhood, the largest challenge has been poverty. Seeing my family in agony was awful. I wanted to succeed in life as soon as I started school,” Haryan told PTI.
“My main drive came from my background—I grew up in a slum. I hoped for a happy, secure career,” she continued.
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