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Ramakrishna Mission Hospital Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh- India
Your Participation
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We invite you to participate The hospital caters to the tribal community and financially weaker section, which cover 80 % of the total population of Arunachal Pradesh.
All the health care equipments of the hospital, some of which are very special in nature, are maintained at a very high cost in this far-flung and remote State, which lacks in infrastructure facilities. The institution so far has not created any fund for the maintenance of the hospital buildings, maintenance and replacement of capital equipment and maintenance of the School of Nursing.
Ramakrishna Mission Hospital, Itanagar Arunachal Pradesh, India needs active financial support to face the crisis. Government aid and grants are meeting only 46% of the recurring expenditure.
With the ever-increasing costs, it has become exceedingly difficult to maintain this service of ailing poor patients, the cause that was very dear to Swami Vivekananda. We need resources to strengthen our hands to serve the ailing humanity with liberal donations/financial assistance.
a. Endowments
Creation of endowments in your name or in the name of your near and dear ones is most welcome. An endowment for maintenance of one bed is a suggestion. Calculating the cost of treatment for one patient in one bed to be Rs.100/- (approximately) per day, the yearly expense for a patient comes to Rs.36,500/-. To get this amount as interest from an endowment, you will need to put in al least Rs.6 lakhs. We have 191 beds in this hospital and we urge you to consider creating endowments for as many beds as you may wish. Alternatively, you may consider creation of endowments for purchase of drugs and allied supplies, maintenance of hospital equipment, or purchase of dietary provisions.
Donations to Ramakrishna Mission are exempt from Income Tax under section 80-G of I.T Act. You may kindly send donations by Banker's Check / D.D. / T.T. in favor of RAMAKRISHNA MISSION HOSPITAL, ITANAGAR, INDIA. We thankfully acknowledge donations/contributions with our official receipt.
b. Need for Corpus Fund to continue the quality of service in health care
Ramakrishna Mission started its activities first in the field of education in Arunachal Pradesh, then NEFA, in the year 1965. Ramakrishna Mission was the first philanthropic organization to come to this remote corner of our country to serve the deprived people of the state on the request of public leaders of this state, the state government and on the personal request of the then Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi.
The local leaders and the then Lt. Governor of the state Sri K.A.A. Raja again requested our headquarters at Belur Math, District Howrah, West Bengal, this time to start a hospital to provide quality health care to the people of Arunachal Pradesh at its capital, Itanagar. The Mission started its health care service in the year 1979.
During initial discussions with our headquarters for establishment of the medical facility, we were assured a full and 100% reimbursement of the expenses incurred in providing the much needed health care to the people of Arunachal Pradesh. During the early years, from 1979 to 1983, the government of Arunachal Pradesh, true to its assurance, reimbursed the expenses fully in the form of grants-in-aid to the hospital. The Mission also had, in the past, and continues to keep its promise of providing quality health care with utmost sincerity and purity of purpose to all people of Arunachal Pradesh, without any discrimination of caste, creed, faith, religion, language or social status.
Over years, the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, due to various reasons and demands on it, is not able to reimburse our expenses, as assured. The grants-in-aid from the state government go to meet barely 46% of our annual expenses, however much we spend judiciously. The biggest component of the expenses is the salary provided to the hospital staff. Hike in the cost of drugs and allied hospital supplies are the other factor that pushes up the expenses.
The hospital was providing health care to the people absolutely free of any cost, in the first decade of its establishment, from 1979 to 1989. As the grants-in-aid started to taper down, the hospital management decided in the month of May, 1989 to levy charges for costly investigations and operations from people who can afford to pay for their health needs and from government servants, whose medical treatment is reimbursed, with a hope that this would supplement the revenue to meet up with expenses. This yielded good results for some years. Of late, we are not able to make both ends meet with the funds the state government is releasing as grants-in-aid as it needs to be increased at least 10% to 15% every year to meet the demands of ever expanding activities and services, the salary of staff and the medical supplies.
Now that the state government is finding it difficult to allocate funds due to increase in their own expenditures and developmental activities that are being taken up each year, the only logical and possible avenue open to us is to enhance the charges already levied and to introduce charges for services that were hitherto not charged and given free. This will only excessively burden the common person.
Arunachal Pradesh is state on mountains. It is the largest state area wise among the North Eastern states. The population is widely scattered among the mountains. People are farming oriented and wholly subsist on their produce, which in no way make them rich or affordable for taxation like expenses on education, health care etc. Most of the people who populate the far-flung, remote areas of the state do not even have steady income to support them for the daily task of living. In this condition, they will be deprived of the facility and benefit they are getting through our hospital in the field of health care.
To continue the stupendous task of providing quality, and affordable health care to the people, we need to have a permanent fund, whose interest would partially supplement the grants-in-aid given by the state government. This would ease the state government’s concern to a certain extent and the people would continue to get the benefit, as they were earlier.
Financial assistance of Rs. 50,00,00,000/- (Rupees Fifty Crores only) is required for making a Corpus Fund, whose interest along with partial grants-in-aid from the state government will build and strengthen our capacity to meet the day-to-day expenses of the hospital to serve the people of Arunachal Pradesh in better way.
Other requirement 1. Hospital Maintenance & Capital Equipment -- Rs.110 Lakhs 2. Expansion of Hospital Beds -- Rs. 25 Lakhs 3. Upgrading existing Operation Theatres and starting a new Operation Theatre -- Rs. 30 Lakhs |
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