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| HISTORY |
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| 1. Humble Begining |
| 2. Secretaries of RKM Sevasharam |
| 3. Comments from Visitor Book |
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| 1. Humble Beginning |
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| AT KALA BABU'S KUNJ |
At Vrindaban, the"Heart" of Braj Dham, the “Leela Bhumi” of Lord Krishna, brought to limelight by Mahaprabhu Srikrishna Chaitanya and held in supreme veneration by Sri Ramakrishna Dev, inspired and guided by the soul stirring message of Swami Vivekananda to "worship God by serving human beings", some local gentlemen formed themselves into a body in order to found a Sevashrama in 1907. A Managing Committee was formed and Sri Jajneswar Chandra Sen and his son took charge of the work, in co-operation with Brahmachari Harendranath of Belur Math, a distant relative of Swami Vivekananda. Some relatives of Sri Balaram Bose of Calcutta, who owned the temple premises at Banshibat, on the Yamuna, known popularly as Kala Babu’s Kunj, kindly placed its outer portion at the disposal of the organizers to accommodate the patients and a Zamindar of Entally, Calcutta, provided the initial funds. In January 1907, the beginning was made with a small Homoeopathy dispensary, with a vow to serve “Siva in Jiva”. Same year, allopathic departments were added along with 4 beds, where 26 inpatients and 275 outpatients were treated. The management of the Sevashrama was passed over to the Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math on January 12, 1908. |
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| Br Harendranath Ji |
Kala Babu Kunj |
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| AT PANIGHAT |
In course of time, the Sevashrama was shifted from Kala Babu's Kunj to newly acquired land at Panighat, on the Yamuna. Various allopathic departments were added to the existing ones and bed capacity of the hospital was raised to 50. Initially the river Yamuna was flowing adjacent to the Sevashrama complex at Panighat but with passage of time the river changed its course and started flowing at some distance. However during monsoon, river water used to inundate the hospital complex thereby paralysing medical facilities. With a view to providing uninterrupted medical care to the suffering humanity, new land was acquired during early 1950s at Mathura Road (presently Swami Vivekananda Marg) and construction of hospital complex was taken up. Due to paucity of financial resources, it took more than a decade to construct the minimum infrastructure for the hospital.
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| THE PRESENT LOCATION (SWAMI VIVEKANANDA MARG) |
The Hospital with 100 beds capacity was completed in 1962 and dedicated to the public on 8th Dec. 1963 by the then Honorable Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Over a period of time various buildings and other facilities have been added to the existing infrastructure to provide more extensive and efficient medical care to the poor patients.
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During early 1980s, the bed capacity of the hospital was raised to 121 with the addition of private and semi-private rooms. During 1986, Maternity services were taken up to serve the society and for training the nursing students in midwifery as well. During mid 1990s the O.P.D. building was made double-storied and additional quarters were constructed for residential doctors. A separate building for the School of Nursing and extension of nursing hostel were also completed during this period. |
The beginning of second millennium brought extensive expansion and development works in the Sevashrama. To name a few, Ayurvedic department; Automatic laundry unit; state-of-the-art machines in the Pathological Laboratory, Eye Department and Ultrasound Department; 30 bed maternity block having all modern facilities increasing the bed capacity of the hospital to 151; additional Dental chair; extensive renovation & repair of hospital buildings; provision of supply of sweet water after processing through Filtration plant; establishment of Blood bank; reconstruction of Operation Theatre block; separate eye wards and 5 beds I.C.U. thereby again increasing the bed capacity of the hospital to 165. Visits by specialist doctors, detection of cancer, psychiatric & tuberculosis treatment and provision of various vaccines and polio doses to the newborn babies are also arranged on a regular basis. |
Audiovisual programs through 16mm Movie Projector, color TV, Video Projector and closed circuit Video are conducted regularly for the benefit of patients, their attendants and hospital staff to make them more conscious about health, hygiene, diseases and remedies, etc. A small library for patients distributes books of general nature as part of occupational therapy. Medical books and journals are also available for medical staff. |
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| GRADUAL EXPANSION |
Since that modest beginning, Sevashrama gradually grown up to its present stature of a 165 bed Charitable hospital serving the needs of a large indigenous public and pilgrims as well as the people of neighboring districts, without any distinction of caste, creed or religion. Today, the hospital has among others Divisions of General Surgery, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, Orthopaedic, Pathology, Ultrasonography, General Medicine, Skin, Homoeopathic Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, Yoga, Reiki, Acupressure, Acupuncture, etc. with multi-facility Operation Theatre complex having six operation rooms, 5 bed Intensive Care Unit and a Blood Bank.
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This Charitable Hospital, continues to provide free medical services to the poor, mainly with the financial support received from noble, kind hearted and benevolent persons and organizations. |
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| VISIT OF OUR NATIONAL LEADERS |
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| Visit of Jawaharlal Nehru (1963) |
Visit of V V Giri |
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| Visit of Rajendra Prasad |
Swami Kripananda ji |
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Visit of Swami Vireshwarananda ji with
Swami Sardeshananda ji
(Gopesh Maharaj ji) |
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2. Secretaries of RKM Sevasharam
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1. |
SWAMI HAREN MAHARAJ |
1903 -1920
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SWAMI VEDANANDA |
1920-1924 |
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SWAMI BHUVANESHWARANANDA |
1925-1926 |
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SWAMI GIRIJANANDA |
1926-1929 |
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SWAMI SAHAJANANDA |
1929-1935 |
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SWAMI SATYASWARUPANANDA |
1936 -1937 |
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SWAMI NIRVISESHANANDA |
1937 -1938 |
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SWAMI SAHAJANANDA |
1938 – 1941 |
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SWAMI SWAYAMPRABHANANDA |
1942 -1946 |
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SWAMI HIRANMAYANANDA |
1946 -1948 |
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SWAMI PRAJANANANANDA |
1948 -1954 |
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12. |
SWAMI KRIPANANDA |
15TH MARCH 1954 – 1969 |
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13. |
SWAMI BHAKTANANDA |
1970 – 1972 |
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14. |
SWAMI TRIVIKRAMANANDA |
15TH MAY 1972 – 18TH JULY 2000 |
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15. |
SWAMI SUPRAKASHANAND |
19TH JULY 2000 OWARDS |
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| 3. Comments from Visitor Book |
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Subhas Chandra Bose
- Sri Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay
- Syama Prasad Mukherjee
- Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
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