Shivananda Mission

Name :

Shivananda Mission

Address  :

Virnagar

Town  :

Rajkot

State  :

Gujarat

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

360 060

Phone  :

91 2821 283731

Fax  :

91 2821 283729

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

info@shivanandamission.org

Description

quotThe World is God Service of humanity is worship of Godquot the great Guru Mantra received by Dr Adhvaryoo from his master H H Swami Shivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh became emblem of Shivananda Mission Saurashtra Centrel Hospital is Situated in a small village Virnagar nearby Rajkot Gujarat Devotion hard working and selfless effort of Dr Adhvaryoo changed the hospital from a small dispensary to largest eye hospital of Gujarat

Shri Virchand Panachand Shah founded Gram Sudharana Samiti then Saurashtra Central Hospital in 1937 Shri Virchandbhai was told by Mahatma Gandhi to begin his work from small village so he shifted from Mumbai to Virnagar His influence upon the village was so high that the old name of the village was changed and the Samadiyala village became Virnagar Dr Adhvaryoo came to Virnagar in 1956 talking premature retirement from Govt job at Patan

Netra Raksha Charitable Trust was formed in 1969 to accelerate the work of prevention and cure of blindness The work was highly appreciated and supported by Swissaid Padmashree DrRajendra T Vyas from Royal Common Wealth Society for the blind and Mrs Ruth Joshi from Switzerland Soon renowned eye surgeons from Switlerland started taking keen interest and joined the task Dr Gerhard Payer Chur Dr Bowmann Iuzern Dr Edward Jenny Baden Dr Wildberger Zurich and Dr Lukas Jenny Baden all these eye surgeons contributed a lot and they still continue to do so in up gradation of the work

Shivananda Mission was established in 1981 with aim of expanding the work from health to education spiritual and other social services At present Shivananda Mission is managing Eye Hospital250 beds Maternity Hospital 14 beds General Hospital 20 beds and 16 beds for Deaddiction Hospital In addition to health services for Education Sector Shivananda Mission is managing a school standard 1 to 12 a Bal mandir Kindergarten a boys hostel a girls hostel through Virnagar Kelawani Mandal Social Services like building small check dams recharging of wells for drinking water construction of low cost sanitary toilets have been undertaken in the past Shivananda Mission has been involved in publication and distribution of religious literature as Spiritual Activities

Shivananda Mission Eye Hospital is the largest eye hospital of Gujarat state it has 8 full time eye surgeons 4 general doctors and 145 para medical staff which is performing more than 15000 eye operations along with 15 lacs OPD every year The base hospital work mobile eye work by screening eye camps and out reach eye camps are the three major sectors by which eye hospital is functioning The Base Hospital has performed 196450 eye operations till March 2009 The base hospital is fully equipped with all modern and sophisticated instruments like Phacoemulcifier machine 5 Operating microscope 12 Haag streit slit lamp bio microscope 4 Autorefractometer 3 Non contact tonometer Keiler 1 Autokeratometer Nidek 1 Keratometer 4 Yag Laser Zeiss 1 Flash Autoclave 2Statim 5000 1 Laminar air flow system in OT amp B Scan

Screening eye camps were started in 1988 Now mission conducts nearly 360 camps every year in seven districts of Gujarat state where a team of doctors and paramedics visits selected rural centers conducts OPD and treatment is given selected cases for operation are shifted to the base hospital for operation by hospital buses after 3 days patients are transported back to their centers Examination medicines operations with lens implants accommodation and meals are totally free of cost to patients One attendant is also provided free lodging and boarding along with a patient Nearly 30 centers are selected every month for screening eye camp with the help of local health workers and organizers About 109647 eye operations have been performed till March 2009 from 1988 in such screening eye camps

Dr Adhvaryoo held first outreach eye camp at Barwala Dhandhuka in 1948 since then such eye camps were very popular among rural people With the advent of newer modality of treatment and operations such out reach eye camps where temporary operation theatre were built at such remote places are now replaced by screening eye camps where patients are shifted to better equipped base hospital for operations Shivananda Mission has performed 276060 eye operations till March 2009 in such out reach eye camps

In total 626715 eye operations have been performed by base hospital screening eye camps and outreach eye camps along with examination and treatment of 3094294 patients till March 2009 For majority of cases Facilities such as Treatment Operations including IOL Lodging and Boarding are provided free of cost by the Trust

Eye Bank was established at Virnagar in 1972 and corneal grafting operations were started Now eye bank has been affiliated with Eye bank association of India InstL13462004 and is registered under human organ transplant act Gujarat also In total 1660 corneal transplants have been performed till March 2009

Shivananda Eye Hospital Rajkot run by Netra Raksha Charitable Trust was amalgamated with Shivananda Mission Virnagar since 1st October 2006