Camps in the villages

Camps are held in the nearby villages – the people get free consultations and medicines . Our Ambulance car with some stuff members and doctors are going with. Every Friday from 9am to 12am we have a mobile camp on different places of Pali district.Tomorrow we will have this mobile camp in a place near Jadan Ashram in an industrial area, for the workers of a steel company.In all this places you can see the health situation of the local population and their life situation, which is not easy at all.

Our activities for EYE PATIENTS IN the Hospital:

In the Hospital we provide also free Camp - we give:
• Free consultation with doctors of different specialties on certain days of the week. Every Saturday Dr.Goyal, eye doctor, give services to all those who have eye problems.
• Screening & selecting patients for eye operations
Now also an ophtalmologist has join us and is here every day.
We have a new Refractometer for exact diagnosis of the eye diseases.
We plan for later on to have our own eye operation theater - only the investment is quite high- but it will come- because we feel the necessity of this medical facility.

CAMP in Dhinavas, village near Jadan

On 28. July a Mela(big festival) for Ram Dev,a lokal diety, was held in Dhinavas, a village near Jadan.People come ther by foot from all parts of the land.
Our MOBILE CAMP UNIT was also there for servicing the people attending the Mela.
We had 293 patients coming to our 2 doctors. free medicines where given.Mahamandaleshwar Swami Jasrajpuri from Om Ashram Jadan was most welcomed in the festival and he made also a lot of advertisement for the Sri Swami Madhavananda Austria Hospital. Slowly the population of Pali comes to know about the activities of our hospital.

Eye operation is possible - thanks to your help!

Mrs. Ichuqui Jaiiya from Sojat, widow since 10 years, no children, 65a old, husband was shoemaker. She has no income, no work. Since 3 month she develops blindness on both eyes. She was operated on 26.July and now she is able to see again with both eyes! Thanks to your support and help!
Every Saturday comes now an ophthalmologist, Dr. Goyal for some hours in our Hospital to treat patients. Also he checks which patients need to have an eye operation – so another time they will be operated.
Every Friday also we organize now a free medical camp in the surrounding villages for those who need medical help – and this are many! (see also the pictures in the gallery of the website)

FREE MEDICAL CAMP on 26. July 2010

On 26. July 10, the Guru Purnima Day, we started a free medical camp with 6 doctors and medical stuff. 850 attained the camp, had consultation and where treated.Medicines where given for free, thanks to sponsoring. Our new Hospital team was organizing everything very good and the message of our Hospital will spread in the area.

NEW MANAGMENT and OFFICIAL GENERAL START on 26.July

A very good New: 2 very experienced and serious managers are working since last week in the hospital to organize the general starting of the Hospital: M.S. Hardyesh Gehlot and M. Vipin Pareek. They have very good ideas and plan for the running of the hospital. We bring now in function the radiology department as well as the laboratory, reception etc. Our stuff will increase up to 18 members now incl. two doctors and one dentist.
NOTE: ON GURUPURNIMA the 26. July 2010 will be the OFFICIAL GENERAL STARTING OF THE SRI SWAMI MADHAVANANDA AUSTRIA HOSPITAL. On this day we offer a free camp for all visitors of the Ashram and 6 different doctors will be in charge to help the patients.On 25.7. a Mobile Medical Unit will go in surrounding villages to give medical service there. See our next blog post! and suscribe on this blog so you get always the last information.

Why so many eye diseases in Rajasthan?

The causes for severe eye diseases and blindness in Rajasthan are:
+ infections due to poor hygiene conditions
+ lack of vitamin A, needed for the retina of the eye
+ Sunlight. Near Jodhpur,the "sun city", in Metania,is the village with the most sun days of the world!
+ people don't protect their eyes with glasses
+ people work the whole day in the fields without eye protection
+ the ultra violet light of the sun and the heat causes coagulation of the protein of the eye lenses, and blindness due to cataract disease is the consequence.
+ diabetes rate is high
That´s why examination and treatment from eye specialists is needed.And prevention of course too.