Sevashram's Activities
Sevashram runs a decently modernized 150-bed hospital to provide medical relief especially to:
- the above-mentioned deprived fellow human beings
- those of urban slums, remote and resources depleted villages, without distinction of caste, creed, color or nationality.
- the tourists / pilgrims that visit this place throughout the year. On a number of occasions these tourists especially old people fall sick due to physical exertion the tour [sometimes trekking ] demands.
Medical service rendered is two pronged :
(i) Services offered in-house
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These buildings consist of Female Ward(32), Male Ward(65), Operation Theatres, ICCU(4), Laboratory, OPD, Neo natal, Eye, Maternity Ward(26), Emergency Ward(7), Medical Shop, Dental etc. |
(i) Services taken to door steps
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Mobile Hospital plies to the remotest villages everyday and serves poorest of poor. |
Indoor (Female):
This Hospital building, named after the founder Swamis, ´Kalyanananda-Nischyananda´, where the Female Ward is housed, was undertaken in 1979. The OPD and other diagnostic departments are also placed in this building. It was made functional in 1990 and the Most Revered Swami Ranganathanandaji, the 13th President of the Order, did a formal inauguration of it.
Indoor (Male):
This ward, named ´Swami Vivekananda Centenary Block ´, was opened on 13th April 1968 by Dr B. Gopala Reddy, the then Governor of U.P. putting all the male patients in one building. This Indoor Male Ward, with 65 beds and two Operation Theatres, now remains equipped with modern hospital equipments and treats the poor patients in a warm and personalized ambience.
Emergency Ward :
This section has 6/7 beds fitted with Bedside Monitors and other sophisticated equipments, and it works round the clock. The Sevashrama wants to increase its bed strength to fifteen, for which it requires a hefty amount of Rs.50 lakhs for installing other life saving/supporting equipments and restructuring it into a commodious ward.
This Hospital has the Specialists of Medicine, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, E.N.T., Dentistry and Physiotherapy.
Diagnostic departments:
It has X-Ray, ECG, Ultrasonography and Laboratory.
X-ray department was opened in 1958 and it has now Siemens X-ray 500 mA and 300 mA machines. About 2.2 million new cases of T.B. occur every year in India and the incidence of T.B. in this Tarai region is very high. For such disease and accident cases, which Sevashrama gets in greater number due to the mountainous region of the State, this department plays a vital role in their treatment.
Mother and childcare Unit:
Maternal mortality here is a hundred times more than in developed countries. Similarly the Infant mortality rate continues to be at 70 per 1000 live births. The Sevashrama, therefore, focused its attention on ameliorating the abject plight of the Mother and child of this nascent State and opened the Mother and childcare Unit a few years back.
Eye Department:
Despite major advancements in eye care, more people in India suffer from a complete loss of sight. And if this trend continues, the currently estimated number of blind persons at 18.7 million, would double in about 20 years time. The Ophthalmology department has, therefore, been equipped with all modern equipments, including a Faco machine and it is serving the eye patients of this holy city and it's environ, by performing eye operation, implanting IOL and distributing free spectacles.
A graphical view of the performance of eye wing is given above:-
Operation Theatre:
There are two Operation Theatres in the Male Ward and one in the Female Ward, where all the surgical cases are done. Replacing old instruments with modern ones has strengthened these O.Ts. The Sevashrama is going to install Image Intensifier for Orthopaedic cases and Incinerator for the disposal of the hospital waste very soon.
ICCU:
Rev. Swami Atmashthananandaji formally opened ICCU in April, 2002. About Rs.50, lakhs were spent on equipping it with Bedside Monitors, Ventilators etc. This meets a long outstanding demand of the local people, as they had to rush to mega cities in emergency cases, incurring heavy expenses and facing a lot of inconveniences. The W.H.O. has predicted that 60% of the World's heart patients in the year 2010 will be of Indian origin. It is already known that Indians are genetically four times more prone to heart disease than any other ethnic group in the world. The ICCU comes to the rescue of such emergency cases.
Special Wards:
There are about 12 Special Private Rooms with all modern facilities. The patients and their family attendants feel at home in this cosy and quiet atmosphere.
Mobile Medical Unit:
India lives in villages. So to cater to their medical needs at their very doorstep around 150 km of the base Hospital, the Mobile Medical unit was started in 1972-73. From the very inception of the Sevashrama, it is serving all communities, without any discrimination of caste or creed. The Annual Report of 1904 reveals that out of 2500 patients treated; about 828 were Sadhus, 335 Brahmins, 230 Mohammedans, and 801 of backward class.
Overhead Water Tank:
This newly built Overhead Water Tank is meeting the growing need of potable water for both the Mission and Math units. It has been constructed last year at a cost of about Rs.30 lakhs and it has 1.5-lakh litres storage capacity. One can get a panoramic view of the entire Kankhal Mission and Math sleeping in the lap of verdant scenic landscape from this towering structure.
The Sevashrama Hospital works round the clock and all the workers are full timers. Hence, Doctors´ Flats, Nurses´ and Technicians´ Hostels are providing accommodation to them in a sprawling campus bedecked with lush green surroundings.
The Community Kitchen:
The Community Kitchen, fuelled by Gobar and LP Gasses as also coal, provides wholesome food to all the patients as well as workers. The workers and inmates of the Sevashrama take food in this community dinner hall in a spirit of camaraderie.
The Agricultural Farm:
The farm provides cereals, green and other vegetables to the above Kitchen.
Dairy:
It has about one hundred cow heads, supplying 250-litre pure milk daily for all the patients and inmates. For diabetic patients, ailing mother and child and malnutritioned and anemic patients, this milk and dairy products help a lot in getting recuperated quickly.