A 35-year-old nurse at Idukki District Hospital from southern India's Kerala has gone the extra mile for one of his patients. <br /><br />In January 2020, Arun Kumar Purushothaman built a fully-functional miniature Jeep Willys for a 10-year-old leukaemia survivor.<br /><br />Hailing from a family of carpenters, he learned the art of carpentry at a very young age.<br /><br />"When I was a small child, I used to ask my parents for toys, but they couldn't afford it. I remember, they got me an old tricycle from the junkyard. Every evening I would ride it and probably that inspired me to be who I am today," he commented. <br /><br />"When I was 15 years old, I won a state medal for building a miniature excavator," he said.<br /><br />"I got free admission to a nursing college for my good grades, and I became a nurse. Even when I was studying nursing, I used to make pieces of furniture. While my ongoing nursing class, I finished an entire kitchen cupboard for my client."<br /><br />Purushothaman made his first fully-functional miniature toy jeep, for his son, Madhav Krishna, in January 2019.<br /><br />Following this, he made a battery-operated tricycle for his daughter Keshini Krishna.<br /><br />Purushothaman then made a fully-functional miniature toy jeep for Amruthesh, a leukaemia survivor. <br /><br />"Being a nurse, I could not ask for any money from his family. I posted on Facebook, asking for people to help me financially. Few of my friends came together and crowdfunded the project," he added.<br /><br />He finished the project within seven months in January 2020.<br /><br />Built with metal plates from a real jeep, the operational toy runs on a 24V DC motor, weighs around 75 kilograms, and can run for about four hours on a complete charge.<br /><br />Arun is currently on duty, tending to coronavirus patients while slowly making plans for his new business.<br /><br />"I want to start a small-scale business of making miniature toy cars. Currently, I am planning to work on a full-size four-wheeler battery-operated vehicle for my personal use."
