In the year under review, the Math and Mission had the following medical and allied units.
Units |
No. of Units |
No. of Beds |
In- patients |
Out- patients |
Break-up of Total Patients |
Inmates / Students |
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Male | Female | Child | Socially Backward | ||||||
Hospitals
Dispensaries (Allopathic) } -do- (Homeopathic) -do- (Ayurvedic & Others) Mobile Medical Units Eye Camps General Medical Camps Other Medical Services Old Age Homes Nurses’ Training Institutes (a) Colleges (b) Schools Institutes for Postgraduate Studies and Research Institutes offering Paramedical Courses |
14 | 2,470 | 1,21,139 | 32,64,846 | 47,893 | 52,726 | 20,520 | 17,050 | — |
— | — | 34,62,263 | 13,63,531 | 15,81,765 | 5,16,967 | 3,04,146 | — | ||
115 | — | — | 5,24,278 | 1,87,559 | 2,60,492 | 76,227 | 81,090 | — | |
— | — | 2,73,971 | 1,21,730 | 1,33,299 | 18,942 | 30,224 | — | ||
57 | — | — | 10,11,936 | 3,31,127 | 5,12,244 | 1,68,565 | 2,65,277 | — | |
708 | — | — | 92,187 | 35,497 | 35,977 | 20,713 | 34,279 | — | |
441 | — | — | 1,42,822 | 55,755 | 61,132 | 25,935 | 45,060 | — | |
39 | — | — | 1,17,878 | 46,274 | 49,782 | 21,822 | 70,661 | — | |
3 | — | — | — | 63 | 59 | — | — | 122 | |
2 |
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— |
— |
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— |
— |
377 |
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5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 438 | |
2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 167 | |
2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 205 | |
Total | 1,381 | 2,470 | 1,21,139 | 90,11,320 | 35,40,306 | 42,64,935 | 12,07,388 | 12,57,901 | 1,309 |
Specialized Medical Treatments
The following special treatments were provided by some of our centres through their hospitals, dispensaries, special programmes, camps,
Eye treatment was rendered by our centres at Belagavi, Bhopal, Chandipur, Garbeta, Halasuru, Kamarpukur, Patna, Porbandar, Rajkot, and so on, and at the hospitals in Kankhal, Lucknow, Muzaffarpur, Vrindaban, etc. Besides, many centres have separate eye-department attached to their
Leprosy case detection and treatment was done by the Headquarters (Belur Math) and our centres at Chennai (Math), Kamarpukur, Lucknow, etc.
Maternity and child welfare services were provided by our hospitals in Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram and Vrindaban and also by some dispensaries.
Neurology department functioned at the hospitals in Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Lucknow, Varanasi, etc.
Physiotherapy treatment was provided by the Headquarters (Belur Math) and our centres at Allahabad, Bhopal, Ghatshila, Indore, Itanagar, Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Lucknow, Nagpur, New Delhi, Shillong, Varanasi, Vrindaban, etc. The centres at Rajkot and Visakhapatnam have special clinics for providing physiotherapy treatment to cerebral palsied children.
Psychiatry treatment was provided in our Itanagar, Kolkata (Seva Pratishthan), Lucknow, Raipur, Thiruvananthapuram, and Vrindaban hospitals and also by some dispensaries.
Tuberculosis cases were treated at the 200-bed sanatorium in Ranchi, the TB Clinic attached to Delhi centre as also by the Headquarters (Belur Math) and our centres at Chennai (Math), Ichapur, Itanagar, Kamarpukur, Kankhal, Lucknow, Malda, Narainpur, Patna, Pune, etc.
Besides, many centres had special departments for dental surgery, ENT, cardiology, paediatrics, acupressure, acupuncture, etc. Many centres provided ayurvedic treatment also.
Medical Camps
In the eye camps, 7906 patients were operated on for cataract and 4564 of them were given spectacles free of all charges. In other specialized medical camps to deal with cases such as dental, ENT, cardio-diabetic, etc, 1,42,822 patients were treated. Further, 4212 units of blood were collected from 4111 voluntary blood donors through 84 blood donation camps. The total expenditure incurred for medical work in 2017-18 was Rs. 256.68 crore.