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Providing hope and healing to heart patients

 

Dr Michael Nobel, chairman of the Appeal of the

Peace Prize Laureats Foundation, had said, "I have never seen anything

like this on earth. It is a wonderful feeling, far removed from the

national healthcare in the West, which does not seem to work very well.

The impressive thing about the hospital created by Bhagwan Sai Baba is

the combination of the three aspects: state-of-the-art technology, free

medical treatment and the healing powers of his presence instilling in

the patient the firm belief that he or she will get well."

The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical

Sciences' super-specialty hospital in Whitefield, near Bangalore,

offers free heart surgeries to people from all walks of life.. Till date

this hospital has conducted nearly four lakh surgeries, according to

hospital staffers, who point out that there is no billing counter here.

 

The hospital's mission is to 'provide high

quality medical care absolutely on a no cost basis to all irrespective

of caste, creed, religion, and financial status in an overall spiritual

environment which recognises the patient as a human being and not as a

diseased entity'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Each and every patient receives the same treatment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hospital is situated on a sprawling 53-acre complex. A large

number of patients, young and old, rich and poor, get their heart

problems treated free of cost. Some treatments would cost Rs 4 lakh in

other medical facilities.

Y Arvind, manager of public relations at the Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, says that the list of patients is

endless. "We have patients throughout the day and I must tell you that

we are proud of our waiting list. We meet every patient and we never

promise what we cannot deliver. But we only deliver the best here. The

doctors meet and evaluate each and every patient who comes here. The

cases are taken up for treatment depending on their urgency," he added.

Every patient receives the same treatment here, free-of-cost. "The

idea is that each patient is at the same level and if you do not pay

for your treatment, then everyone is on par," explains Arvind proudly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: The hospital offers state-of-the-art facilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hospital runs on donations from various philanthropists and devotees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The hospital is equipped with a fully automated information system

which takes care of the patient data. The hospital also maintains a

manual record of the data.

The super specialty hospital, with a built up area of 3,54,000 sq

feet, houses 333 beds, eight operation theatres, six intensive care

units, two cardiac cath labs and a 24-hour emergency unit.. This

state-of-the-art hospital, with a dedicated team of expert doctors, is

also remarkable due to its Indo-Saracenic architecture and magnificent

gardens.

How does the hospital dispense free medical treatment to so many

patients? All the funds for the hospital come from the medical trust,

which in turn receives the money in the form of donations from various

philanthropists and devotees of Sathya Sai Baba. Arvind explains that

on an average, the hospital authorities spend Rs 50 lakh a month on

surgeries, treatment, maintenance cost and staff salary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: Sri Sathya Sai Baba with a patient

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not medical counseling, but patient counseling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"We are able to manage this thanks to resource

optimisation. For example, we don't waste paper. It is compulsory for

anyone using a note to use both sides of it and not throw it away after

writing on only one side," Arvind explained.

The doctors have been instructed not to conduct

medical counseling, but to conduct patient counseling for every

patient. The doctors draw up an emotional profile of the patient to

figure out the route of his emotional imbalance. This understanding

helps the doctors in keeping their patients calm, and studies have

proven that a calm mind helps heal a patient better.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba's first initiatives in the

field of medical care began with the Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital,

Prasanthi Nilayam, which was inaugurated on October 4, 1956 as a 12-bed

facility for serving the poor in Puttaparthi and the surrounding

villages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: Doctors here do patient counselling, not medical counselling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free healthcare to all patients

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The initiative was aimed at giving free healthcare to all the

patients seeking treatment at the hospital. Soon, the hospital began to

attract patients from all across Anantapur, adjoining districts and

other states. Over the years, the SSSGH grew from a single room

dispensary to a sizeable general hospital with 90-bed capacity,

treating patients suffering from various aliments. The Out Patient

Department in the hospital now handles nearly 600 patients daily on an

average.

In 1976, a second hospital, Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital,

Whitefield was inaugurated by Sri Sathya Sai Baba in Bangalore. He also

founded the Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust in September 1991, to set up

super-specialty hospitals to provide quality medical care to needy

patients irrespective of caste, creed and religion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: The hospital has a long waiting list of patients

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State-of-the- art medical care

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first venture of the Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust, towards

providing high-tech tertiary medical care, was in the form of the Sri

Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparthi in

November 1991. The institute provides state-of-the-art tertiary medical

care absolutely free of cost to all those who came to its portals. This

super specialty hospital treats diseases related to cardiology, urology

and ophthalmology.

After the success of the super specialty venture in Andhra

Pradesh, the government of Karnataka wanted Baba to start another super

specialty hospital in Bangalore and offered 53 acres of land to build a

super specialty hospital in its suburbs. The Sri Sathya Sai Institute

of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore was inaugurated on January 19,

2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: The hospital was inaugurated in 2001 nagesh

 

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