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Presently, by well
equipped the 100 beds hospital offers round the clock
emergency services, special care for women and children
with eye diseases,seperate clinics for
tuberculosis,diabetes,infertility.These services are
strongly supported by well equipped modern
laboratory,X-ray and Sonography units along with
operation theatres and blood bank.Medicines are
available in hospital campus at low cost without
compromising the quality.A well- stocked library offers
reference facilities for doctors, who keep their
knowledge updated through regular academic meetings.
Medical students and interns fromIndiaand
abroad come to this hospital for regular orientation and
training.Moreover, oppurtunities are available to
youngsters for various kinds of training in
India and
abroad.Thus the patients of interior areas are not
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However,
doctors as well as modern equipments do not enliven a
hospital. Dedicated and competent Para medical staff are equally essential. Since it
was difficult to get formally qualified Para medical personnel due
to remote area, in early eighties
SEWA - Rural decided to train local rural tribal girls
& boys by extensive practical training and
demonstration. This brought a new and better change into
their lives. The hands doing all sorts of labour began caring for patients and
giving new hope of life to them.
A glance at the
achievements of the hospital, while it is about to enter
the 4th decade,reveals that people of the 1500
surrounding interior villages take advantage of the
hospital having about 15 full time doctors. About 250
patients from these villages receive medical treatment
daily in OPD. Every year about 68000 OPD & 10000
Indoor patients are treated & about 1800 deliveries
& 6500 operations are carried out. Despite of concessional charges, about 35% of
OPD and 75% of Indoor patients are treated
free.
About Rs. 2 Crores are being spent for hospital
services per annum. Of this less than 50% is met from
Government grant,. The
expenditure of 2/3rd of the patients is borne by SR and
only 25% expenditure is met by patients who can afford
it. Hence, for meeting the deficit of more than Rs. 50 lacs, support is constantly
solicited. Every year the deficit is met by the
co-operation and support of benevolent organizations
like Lilavati R. Shah Medical
Relief Trust & Ur Asha Javeri Foundation Trust ( both from Mumbai ) beside donations
from other sources. In recognition and appreciation of
the excellent management of this rural hospital, the
Bajaj Group of industries and
the Bombay Management Association bestowed a national
award on the hospital in 1989 for innovative hospitals
& health care management in non-Govt. Rural hospital
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