page_title: Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal
section_title: Present Situation
hierarchical_section_title: Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal / Present Situation
caption_attribution_description: English: A Panoramic View of the Sevashrama
context_page_description: Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal is in its present form is a 210-bed multi-specialty charitable hospital in Kankhal, Haridwar in Uttarakhand. It is a branch of Ramakrishna Mission, and was established in 1901 by Swami Kalyanananda, one of the direct monastic disciples of Swami Vivekananda. The hospital serves the treatment needs of poor patients in and around Uttarakhand. Since its inception it has treated more than 10 million patients. From a modest beginning in a rented two room dilapidated building it has grown to be a multi-specialty hospital for treatment of impoverished and needy people, under the supervision of the monks of Ramakrishna Order. The hospital is located in an 18 acres campus, and houses Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Intensive Care Units, Pathological laboratory, Blood bank, Operation Theaters etc. in addition to dairy and agricultural land whose products are used for the consumption of poor in patients.
  The Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama is under Ramakrishna Mission which also undertakes extensive relief and rehabilitation work in the region, which it did for the recent Uttarakhand flood 2013.
context_section_description: The Sevashrama in 2011-12 has treated more than 7000 in patients and more than 600,000 outdoor patients. This centre, a branch centre of Ramakrishna Mission, Belur, Kolkata is governed by a Managing Committee appointed by the Governing Body of Ramakrishna Mission. The Secretary of this Managing Committee functions as the head of that branch. It has got 150 beds for in patients, two fully equipped operation theatres, two fully equipped ambulances, one mobile medical unit, an emergency unit, neo natal department, maternity department, ophthalmology department, dental department, blood bank, physiotherapy, orthopedics, ultrasonography unit, X-Ray unit, a fully equipped ICCU and medical shop and caters to poor patients from all over India.More than 70% of the above patients are utterly poor, abandoned by their families and have no means to go anywhere for treatment. Free cataract operations are also performed here. The hospital also specialized in treating Tuberculosis patients since its inception. 
  The Ramakrishna Math, Kankhal was created in December 1980, after the bifurcation of Sevashrama into a Math and Mission Centres. The hospital runs its own Dairy and Agricultural farms, catering to the patients and other needy local people as well as the monastics and workers.
caption: A Panoramic View of the Sevashrama
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