SWAASTHYA HOSPITAL - Bringing Critical Care to Remote Doorsteps

The Swaasthya Hospitals, Health & Wellness initiative of The Satsang Foundation is a 53-bed, secondary care charitable healthcare center dedicated to providing holistic medical services. Driven by a philanthropic mission, Swaasthya offers free healthcare to those in need, promotes preventive healthcare, and fosters education and awareness through outreach programs. These efforts aim to create a healthier society, benefiting numerous villages in the region with easily accessible, high-quality healthcare services.

Currently, Swaasthya offers the following services:

● General Medicine

● General Surgery

● Obstetrics and Gynaecology

● Orthopaedics

● Dental Care

● Physiotherapy

● Emergency Services

● Community Outreach

● Telemedicine

Approximately 80% of the patients belong to the lower to lower-middle-income groups, while the remaining patients come from the middle-income group, from within a 75 km radius of Swaasthya Hospitals, Madanapalle.

Outreach camps offer a range of services, including general screenings, as well as specialized care in cardiology, dentistry, and obstetrics/gynecology. Special emphasis is placed on students, women, and the elderly. The camps also prioritize support for low-income and economically disadvantaged groups, with a particular focus on tribal communities in the region.

Currently, our ambulance also serves as a vehicle for transporting paramedic staff, doctors, equipment, and medicines.

Our visiting volunteer doctors are leading specialists, including cardiologists, cardio-thoracic surgeons, neurologists, neurosurgeons, nephrologists, urologists, diabetologists, and dentists from renowned hospitals in major cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, and Hyderabad.

Numerous general screening camps are held early in the morning, during which Random Blood Sugar, Blood Pressure is checked. If abnormalities are found, the care seekers are requested to follow-up at Swaasthya Hospitals.

Till date, 78 outreach camps have been held, screening over 7500 patients. This valuable data is being analysed to identify patterns related to anaemia, fluorosis, cardiovascular symptoms, diabetic symptoms, respiratory symptoms etc. The analysis gained from this analysis will help design & implement targeted interventions. Early detection is crucial as late detection can lead to the onset of critical diseases and placing lifelong burden on economically disadvantaged sections of the society.

Many schools and institutions are covered for early screening in the areas of ophthalmology, dental, respiratory, anaemia, gastro-intestinal, menstrual ailments. Menstrual health and hygiene is a key focus in these rural areas.

In the coming years, Swaasthya plans to increase the bed capacity to 150 and add critical services such as cardiovascular surgeries, a comprehensive diabetes care centre, nephrology, neurosurgery and more .

Swaasthya Hospital also plans to set up satellite centers within 75 kms radius of to provide primary health care to under-served rural population in the Annamayya District, Andhra Pradesh. Vehicles equipped with laboratory diagnostic equipment, ECG, 2D echocardiogram, mobile ICU with ventilators and for movement of medical staff is imperative for the success of this initiative.

Support Required for Swaasthya Hospitals

Sponsor Outreach Camps - INR 14.40 Lakhs p.a.

Each camp covers approx. 120-150 patients in terms of screening, diagnosis, free distribution of medicines across several villages in and around Madanapalle. Cost includes salaries for doctors, nurses & paramedics, field officers and marketing staff. This also includes free basic laboratory tests such as RBS, BP, Eye checkup, Dental Checkup, Mother & child health etc.

Sponsor an Out-Patient Service - INR 500 per patient

Covers doctors’ consultation, nursing charges, basic diagnosis and free medicines (where possible). You can choose to sponsor any number of patients

Sponsor an In-Patient - INR 15,000 per patient

Covers 3 days of hospital stay bed charges, doctors’ consultation, minor surgical interventions. Major laboratory tests, consumables & drugs are charged to the patient. You can choose to sponsor any number of patients.