1st
August 2003
A get-together
was held on 31/07/2003 at 2:00 p.m. where delegates of different
villages paid their visit.
The agenda of the programme is as under:
Minutes
a) A representative from Kharoli village stood up and said he was pleased with the settings of AHRC and was proud to state that Alipore Hospital is the best hospital he has seen in his 81 yrs of life within 50 kms vicinity. He praised the organizers, trustees and doctors and staffs and said he and his village will gave full co-operations to all the members who will come to his area or village in the future camps. He asked for once a week camp for the village. He said he salutes ASWT and all at Alipore Hospital for this great achievement of spreading health awareness in the area.
b) Dr. Jayraj Desai stood up and thanked the delegate and assured him that ARC will serve better in near future.
c) A representative from Pratapnagar, said AHRC has done remarkable work and that he has personally seen how his schools Principal was treated professionally with a very low cost. He also said the medicines supplied by the hospital medical store were very cheap than the other medical stores. He said there is a need for a female Gynaecologist which is to be filled up by the AHRC as problems to poor female patients will be better looked after.
d) Dr. Jayraj Desai agreed with the demand and replied that AHRC is on look for a good female gynaecologist and soon this area will be looked after by the AHRC and that Gynaecology Dept will be started soon as we have a full time gynecologist.
e) Mr. Miyabhai Baser of Alipore congratulated the trustees and the doctors and the staffs and said that this new scheme of Free Mobile Dispensary Camp was a much needed scheme for which he is proud of. He said ASWT since it started functioning, has bought expensive equipments, services are best, they have been successful by introducing best doctors, best medicines, best surgeries and that too at a much cheaper rate. He said X-Ray and Sonography was the cheapest in this area, emergency are tackled best in this area. He said the doctors namely Dr. Jayraj Desai, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr. Rakesh Patel MD (Cardiologist), General Surgeons like Dr. Sarang Shah (MS), Dr. Parvez Shaikh (MS) and Dr. Swapnesh Patel (MS) are best in the team of Drs. in the vicinity.
The OPD service deals with top visiting specialist and X-Ray, Sonography is the cheapest in the area and also stated that radiological department is very good and rates are very subsidized. Overall all the treatment done at AHRC is best and cheaper in the area. He congratulated the trustees, doctors and staffs of AHRC and wished great success in future too. He said he too is the member of relief fund to the poor patients and he has experienced that Alipore Hospital has done outstanding work towards patients treatment and he has seen lot of good work and services provided to those poor and needy patients.
f) Mr. Mehmood Miya Saiyed, representative of World Health Organization (WHO) said he is frequent visitor of AHRC and has found that the services rendered and diagnosis done at Alipore was of professional standards and as per WHO guidelines and also as per District Health Department requirement. He said the services were of subsidized cost and almost free of cost in many fields. He said medical camps in villages will be helped and co-operated by PHC (Public Health Centers) in the area too. He said he salutes the trustees, doctors, staffs and members of AHRC for they project and for success in future he shall pray for the best. He said he offers full support to the trust in all its future developments and schemes.
g) Ahmed Mayet of Manekpore village congratulated the trustees, doctors and staff of AHRC and said he was pleased with the services and was happy that all the patient he sent to AHRC for treatment were better looked after. He wanted to know what type of discount will be given to the poor patients.
h) Mr. Hassan Mayet, President of ASWT answered with a thanks to all the visitors for participating in the get-to-gather and then stated that although patients are given subsidized treatment at present further discounts and may be in some cases full cost will be borne by AHRC for very poor and needy patient based on the socio-economic status of the patients.
He further stated that AHRC rates of X-Ray, Sonography, Operations, Treatments, and Pathology Laboratory Departments are very subsidized and that lot of care is taken to maintain these departments but at the same time it is seen to it that no burden is passed on to the patients. Alipore Hospital spends its maintenance from its donation funds for which he thanked all the Donors in the country and abroad.
He also said there will be lot of time and energy spent by Alipore Hospital teams on Health Awareness programmes in future also. And that He believed in the principle, ‘Stitch once and save nine’. So better take precautions by some health awareness programmes and take special care in Proper Hygiene and cleanliness. He appealed to all that we should have proper civic sense to avoid spreading of any diseases. He said that Alipore Hospital Drs. are ready to give them full guidances for such programmes.
i) Mr. Ahmed Patel, Retired Collector, Saraiya, came to the stage and congratulated the trustees, doctors and all the people involved in ASWT and AHRC and said in 2 years the work done by this hospital is equivalent to 20 years of work by many such trust hospitals. He said he appeals to one and all that AHRC is doing its duties as they are doing but are we doing our duties to help and strengthen the work by giving them time, money, support, verbally or in kind, if Not, then we have no time to lose. We should start it again and do the good work. There is no time limit or duration but there is lot of work needed to see that AHRC succeeds in all its future programmes. He also said that its not people at AHRC who should contact us but it’s the duty of us as an individual to visit AHRC frequently and discuss the requirements and needs of the trust for future programmes.