Arpana Hospital

Name :

Arpana Hospital

Address  :

Madhuban

Town  :

Karnal

State  :

Haryana

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

132037

Phone  :

0184 2380801

Fax  :

0184 2380810

Web URL  :

Email  :

Specialization
  • Dermatology
  • General Medicine
Facilities

Description

Arpana Services
Members of Arpana Trust were inspired by their Founder Param Pujya Ma to set up effective health and development programs for disadvantaged communities

Objectives Arpana works to improve health provide education and enhance livelihoods through programs covering over 350000 people in rural Haryana Himachal Pradesh and in Delhi slum resettlement colonies

Services
Arpanas health services began when Arpanas First Chairman Dr JK Mehta visited nearby villages to provide medical care to disadvantaged communities Arpana Hospital was set up in rural Madhuban in Haryana in 1980 when Dr Ela Anand a gynaecologist and her surgeon husband Dr AK Anand moved to Arpana It became a training and referral centre for surrounding villages in response to critical health conditions in the areaIn Chamba District Himachal Pradesh a medical clinic was conducted in an abandoned Post Office allocated to Arpana in 1977 This became the Arpana Diagnostic amp Treatment Centre in 2002

The Integrated Medical amp Socioeconomic Centre was set up in Gajnoi a remote village near Chamba Town in 1994 Molar Bund Slum Development Delhi Project began in one small slum of 700 people in 1992

At present Arpana brings a wide variety of health and socioeconomic services to an area of over 300000 rural folk in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and to 50000 urban poor in Delhi

Programs include a 135 bedded rural hospital specialty treatment medical centres mobile clinic and outreach camps and health awareness

Training is carried out for village folk as health workers and health resource persons as well as for continuing education for doctors nurses and paramedics

Arpana empowers women by facilitating micro credit groups gender sensitization leadership training and participatory community development to bring prosperity into rural homes Presentations of valuebased dramas inspire and motivate audiences to aspire to the finest qualities of character

Educational support is also provided to the marginalized children in the slum resettlement colonies of Molar Bund Delhi
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