We convey our loving namaskars and warm greetings to you and all the members of your family and friends. Hope you are all keeping well by the grace of the Almighty. We pray to Him for the welfare of you all.

104 years have passed since the Sevashrama had its humble beginning in 1907 with the aim of rendering selfless service to the poor and needy patients of this region. We are happy to place before you a Short Annual Report of the activities undertaken by the Sevashrama during the financial year 2010-11. A detailed report will follow shortly once the Statement of Accounts is finalized. We have been able to take up all the activities for the service of the poor and needy because of the dedicated and generous support that you have provided to the Sevashrama. We are indebted to you all for helping us to upgrade the existing services. Along with the generous donors and well wishers we thank all our doctors, friends, devotees, volunteers and staff without whom we would not have achieved this success. This year too we have added a few new equipment/instruments as in previous years. We also place before you the various projects that we have planned for the year ahead. We are sure that with your generous and noble support we will be able to provide service to the poor as envisioned by Swami Vivekananda - "Serving God in man".

Further to the support that you are providing to the Sevashrama, we request you to please recommend this 104 year old institution to a few of your kind hearted acquaintances who may be willing to help by providing us financial assistance for the various activities of the Sevashrama and we earnestly hope that you will continue to help us with your kind support in the future.

We have been sending you reports of activities undertaken at the Sevashrama twice a year. Hope you are getting the same. We take this opportunity to place our invitation to you and all the members of your family & friends to visit Sri Vrindaban Dham at your convenience. Your visit will surely be an inspiration to all of us here. You can personally witness the various activities undertaken at the Sevashrama by your noble support. We are hopeful that along with that you will enjoy the vibrant atmosphere of this holy land blessed by the divine lila of Sri Krishna. May Sri Radharani, Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi & Swami Vivekananda bless us all and fill our lives with devotion, peace and bliss.

P.S.: We are happy to announce that donations to Infrastructure Development and Corpus Fund of the Sevashrama are now eligible for 100% exemption from Income Tax u/s 35 AC of the Income Tax Act, 1961. All other donations to Sevashrama are exempt from Income Tax u/s 80 G of Income Tax Act, 1961.

Note: - Please intimate us if there is a change in your postal/email address or in case you are in receipt of more than one copy of report/communication.

We are indebted to all the above donors for their wholehearted support and for providing the above listed items to the Sevashrama.

We gratefully acknowledge the help of Dr. Sunita Maheshwari and her team of Radiologists at Teleradiology Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore who provide prompt and expert diagnostic reports for all our CT Scan images free of charge through internet. With their support we have been able to serve the Sevashrama patients by providing CT Scan facility at a nominal charge. Dr. Bharat Kumar Aggarwal of Diwan Chand Satyapal Aggarwal Imaging Research Centre, Delhi helped us in this regard in the initial stages.

• Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (BPL/Smart Card): The Govt. scheme of medical insurance to the Below Poverty Line people of the land through BPL/Smart Card has been continued successfully at the Sevashrama Hospital. We treated 98 cases under RSBY during 2010–11. The cardholders are provided with complete free treatment, medicines and also conveyance charges after their discharge. A Nigerian delegation visited the hospital to learn about the scheme and explore the feasibility of implementing the same in their country. They were briefed about the subject in a seminar conducted by the state authorities at our School of Nursing Auditorium.

• ICTC Programme for AIDS Prevention & Control: The Government sponsored programme for awareness & prevention of AIDS was conducted at the Hospital this year also. 48 HIV reactive patients and their relatives were offered counselling during the current year.

• Eye Camps: Weekly eye screening camps were held in different villages and on an average 15 to 25 patients were brought for surgery to the Hospital in the vehicle provided by Blind Foundation for India, USA. Post-surgery they were sent back to their homes/villages in the same vehicle with all necessary medicines. These camps are being sponsored by Sri Baijnath Garodia Charitable Trust, Guwahati, Assam.

• Computerisation of Indoor Management System: Introduced from last year, this programme has been a great hit with the staff as it has made the management of filing and day to day running of the wards very easy and effective. Our heartfelt thanks to Sri Jagannathan Srinivasan of Sarada Research Labs, Bangalore and his team who have been devoting a lot of their time and effort as a voluntary service on upgradation of the System.

The general ward patients are provided with bed, diet, milk, almost all the medicines, doctors' & sisters' services at free of cost. The private ward patients are also offered the same services except the medicines and nominal room charge.

• Operation Theatre: The six operating room OT Complex functions five days a week. General & Laparoscopic surgeries; Urological Surgeries; Paediatric, Gynaec & Obstreitics, Orthopaedic, Plastic, ENT and Ophthalmic Surgeries are conducted regularly. The annual Urology Camp headed by Dr. (Prof.) Harshad Punjani, Mumbai was conducted in December and was sponsored by Manav Seva Sansthan, Mumbai. More than 50 major surgeries were conducted during this 3 day camp. Total number of surgeries conducted during the year was 2,417.

• Children Ward: A very generous donor from Mumbai, who wishes to remain anonymous, provided the necessary financial support for free treatment to all patients in the 18 bed children ward. This year 1,172 children got admitted for free treatment in this ward whereas 25,686 children got consultation in the OPD as against 911 and 24,836 respectively in the last year. Free medicines were provided to all the patients.

Gastroenterology - Padmavibhushan Dr. B.N. Tandon, Delhi; Cardiology - Dr. A. P. Arora, Delhi; Dr. R. K. Tandon, Agra; Dr. K. Gopal, Vrindaban, Dr. G.P. Bhattacharya, Kolkata; Neurology - Dr. D.N.Paul, Delhi; Chest - Dr. Amitabha Sengupta, Delhi; Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery- Dr. Amitabh Singh & Dr. Anurag Jain, Delhi; Psychiatry - Dr. M. K. Pandey, Dr. Arun, Agra Mental Hospital, Agra; ENT – Dr. A. K. Lahiri, Delhi & Dr. Ajit Kumar Bhattacharya, Agra.; Laparoscopy Surgery – Dr. R. N. Sarangi, Delhi; Eye Surgery – Dr. Ajay Pathak, Faridabad; Paediatrics - Dr. Jagdish, Delhi; Pathology – Dr. P. K. Chatterjee, Delhi, Dr. Abhijit Mukherjee, Burdwan; Naturopathy – Dr. P. K. Bhattacharya, Delhi; Nephrology – Dr. O.P. Rathi, Dr. Himangshu Mahapatra and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Delhi. Our special thanks to the visiting doctor from USA: Dr. Millan C Baidya, Anesthesiologist.

• Out Patient Department: The average OPD attendance is 900 per day. Almost 40 doctors provide their services in the OPD every day. One or two super specialists in different disciplines also offer their services on alternate days.

• Orphan Patients: Vrindaban being a pilgrimage centre, many people, especially in their old age, come here to live for the rest of their lives. Sometimes they suffer a pitiable end, dropping sick at Dharamashalas, Ashramas, widow shelters or even at road sides. Invariably they are brought to the Sevashrama and we try to provide them whatever we can to alleviate their suffering. Some of them stay for months together. If required we arrange for their last rites as well. The period under consideration witnessed 17 such orphan mortalities as against 11 in the last year. Those who recover leave the Sevashrama with a sense of deep gratitude.

• Blood Bank: Apart from exchange donors from patients’ side, different groups of voluntary donors provided the life saving blood to the Sevashrama patients throughout the year. We are very grateful to the Red Cross Blood Bank, Delhi for supplying blood units to our patients whenever required. We sincerely appreciate students of BSA College of Engineering, Mathura for donating blood. A total of 717 transfusions took place at the hospital this year. Last year there were 655 transfusions.

• Total number of Students – 80 : The new (29th) batch of 20 meritorious students from the lower income family groups were admitted to the free 3½ years General Nursing & Midwifery (GNM) course recognised by the U.P. State Medical Faculty and the Indian Nursing Council, Delhi.

• Nursing School students, with the guidance of their teachers, visited remote villages for their community training programme wherein they imparted Adult Education, Awareness and Counselling programmes in baby care, food & nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, post immunizations and HIV/AIDS to the villagers.

• Lamp Lighting Ceremony: At a glittering Lamp Lighting Ceremony held at the Auditorium in the Nursing School on 6th December, 2010, the fresh batch of 20 nursing students formally took the oath to dedicate their lives to the service of ailing humanity. Swami Sarvalokanandaji Maharaj, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission, Mumbai presided over the function; Mrs. Kalpana Mondal, Ex–Principal, Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, New Delhi, was the Chief Guest. Sri J. P. Guha Roy, Executive Director, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Mathura Refinery and Mr. M.S. Maun, Circle Head – Punjab National Bank, Agra Circle, were the Guests of Honour. On the same evening the School also celebrated its Annual Day with various cultural programmes.

Spiritual & Cultural

Our Humble Appeal

Apart from the above mentioned ongoing projects we have the following special projects for the benefit and welfare of the poor and the needy patients. We appeal most humbly to your gracious self for your kind, sympathetic and generous support.