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We are pleased to inform you that this mega project of setting up of Alipore Hospital & Research Centre is well fulfilled now and the services provided and operations performed in the very first year were never imagined in past.

It’s a law of nature that all great things start from small. Alipore Social Welfare Trust was established in 1984 for providing basic primary treatment in Alipore with proper Medical Experts and Medicines. Initially we started serving for daily 2 hrs. Clinic with one doctor, which was then extended to 8 hrs with one lady doctor too. After getting good response we started Jawahar Nursing Home with 4 Bed Day Care Centre. In the meantime, with the advice of our elders and well wishers, we went for a full fledged General Hospital Project, which today, is like a dream come true, to many of us. When ASWT was established, we ourselves were unknown that one day there will be a Hospital Project with various services and will be as big as it is today. Here we would like to thank Almighty and all our donors for making it possible. The good wishes and prayers are answered by Almighty and we assure you that there will be many further developments in the future and that we will soon be developing various departments equipped with more modern machineries and equipments. And for this purpose we require support from all sides. We assure you of best services and wise use of funds and donations.

During the year, we started hospital services from General Surgery and Emergency (Casualty) Departments and then we began introducing various departments like Cardiology and General Medicine, Orthopaedic, Radiology and Sonology, ICU, Pathology, ENT, Psychology, Dental, Dermatology, Urology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Gyneacology, Maternity and Obestratics, Physio-Therapy, and Medical Store to enable all the services under one roof. This, itself, is an achievement as there is no trust hospitals with these types of facilities and services in and around the region.

Today we are please to inform you that more than two years have past since the medical services at Alipore Hospital was started. Till date, that is from the period June-2001 to January-2004, the reliefs given to the poor patients in different departments were as under :

Sr. No.	Details	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2001-02)	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2002-03)	Reliefs Given between 1/4/03 to 31/1/04 (10 mths)
1	OPD	397,593	308,415	270,100
2	In-Patients/Operations / Casualties & Procedures	261,478	302,213	460,578
3	X-Rays	133,996	191,520	80,880
4	Sonography	41,800	90,000	37,300
5	Pathology	73,046	97,925	83,099
6	Dialysis Relief	39,745	47,880	NIL
7	Ambulance	20,024	4,540	5,489
	TOTAL	967,682	1,042,493	937,446

You may see from the above table that we have given medical relief worth Rs. 9,67,000/- in year 2001-02 and Rs. 10,42,493/- in year 2002-03 and Rs. 937,446 in year 2003-04 (10 months) to poor and needy patients and this is due to the generous contributions from all the donors. Jazaakallah!

We are pleased to inform you that we have tried our best to gather all types of Best Medical Specialists at Alipore Hospital and we are trying our best to give all types of medical treatments to the patients under one roof. Medical Experts from different medical fields visit AHRC for consulting and diagnostic purposes.

Still we are trying our best to serve our patients better. To ensure proper monitoring of In-Patients and Out-Patients we have appointed Seven (7) Medical Officers and Two (2) Assistant Medical Officers apart from Well-Qualified and experienced Para-medical staffs.

From 1^st of January, 2002, we have introduced Free OPD check-up / consulting by our Medical Officers and one-day medicines are dispenses are dispensed at a nominal charge of Rs. 5 (Rupees Five Only) per day.

Patients care is our first priority and we would try our best to take care of them. For which we require co-operations from you all. Your suggestions and advices might be very beneficial to us to serve the sick in best possible way.

Still, lot of equipments and instruments are required and for this, we require support from all over. We request all of you to come forward and donate generously. List of our requirements are enclosed herewith.

We have to compensate Rs. 1,93,000/- to maintain the cost of expenditure of the hospital. Our Monthly Expenditure consist of the following: -

INCOME (in Indian Rupees)		EXPENDITURE (in Indian Rupees)
In Patients Bill	90,000/-	Salaries	2,20,000/-
OPD Fees	25,000/-	Electricity Bill	15,000/-
Pathology Fees (Lab)	20,000/-	Hon. Drs. Conveyance Fees	30,000/-
X-Ray & Sonography	21,000/-	Maintenance Expenditure	8,000/-
Other Incomes	20,000/-	Medicine Purchase	50,000/-
		Printing and Stationary	10,000/-
Monthly Deficit Difference	1,93,000/-	Other Expenses	20,000/-
		Daily Purchases (Hospital)	16,000/-
TOTAL	3,69,000/-	TOTAL	3,69,000/-

All these requirements are necessary hence we look forward for your support and help to fulfill the same and serve the sick better.

PERFORMANCE
Since inception, from June – 2001, the start of medical services at the newly-built Alipore Hospital, following is the flow of patients' department-wise performance:

Year	OPD	Indoor Pt.	Operation	X-Ray	Pathology	Sonography
Jun-01 to Mar-02	15,598	5,310	223	1,960	2,815	329
Apr-02 to Mar-03	14,804	5,665	272	1,894	3,468	600
Apr-03 to Jan 04 (10 months)	13,140	5,910	422	1,790	2,662	373
Total Nos. of Pt.	43,542	16,885	917	5,644	8,945	1,302

There was demand from villagers to have a Charitable Dispensary of Alipore Social Welfare Trust in Alipore so from October 2003 we started the Charitable Dispensary inside the village which obtain good response by the villagers. We plan to extend the consulting hours at the village in near future.

Free Mobile Dispensary Services (FMDS) has been introduced with great success. In first introductory phase of FMDS in 10 days, 69 villages were covered and 1933 patients were diagnosed by AHRC’s Medical Officers. Then for the second FMDS Camps in 10 days, 17 villages were covered and 1242 patients were diagnosed. We have got very favourable reports from these villages and we plan to extend this FMDS in future as a permanent Health Awareness and Diagnostic Programme for which we want the support of our donors.

Most of the contagious diseases in India are spread due to contaminated drinking water. To curb this there was a need for mineral water plant. We are pleased to inform you that all the patients, Doctors, Nurses, Staffs and Visitors at Alipore Hospital take benefit of FREE Mineral Drinking Water. The Mineral Water Plant was sponsored by a group of Family Members in the loving memories of their departed ones. We all extend our deep gratitudes to the donors.

Our plans are to have Para-Medical Courses in the hospital Campus once we have our basic facilities set. Since a year and a half we have an agreement with Nursing College Bardoli, where our doctors and senior Nurses give practical training to the student nurses and after finishing the training our Doctor certify them to have finished practical trainings. This training is being done FREE OF COST to the students. And in this way we help them get a suitable job as qualified nurses in the nearby towns and cities. In future we plan to start DMLT course for Laboratory Technicians at our Hospital.

During the year different Medical Camps were organised at Alipore Hospital like Hearing Aids Camp where Hearing Aid Kit were distributed to poor patients, Arthritis and Orthopaedic Camp, ENT Camp and other camps were organised. We plan in future to invite Specialist Doctors from Bombay to organise in a bigger way and in a specialised field.

We all at ASWT and AHRC extend our deep gratitude to Mr. Mohammedbhai Patel of A & A Charity Trust UK & Kaphleta (India) for donating three equipments of strategic value, namely,- C-Arm IITV (Fully Computerised Make : Phillips, Netherlands), Infant Ventilator and Paediatric Resuscitation Unit. We all hope and pray that A & A Charity Trust donate the equipments of our need in future also.

When we started medical services Muslim Aid UK gave us due recognition and encouragement by donating an Ultra Sound Scanner Sonography Machine and 75KW Diesel Powered Generator for Uninterrupted Power Supply. We have been using both the machines and our Doctors and Patients have benefitted a lot. Now Muslim Aid again have come forward with a Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy Machine for our Operation Theatre Department. We hope and pray that Muslim Aid's generous gestures will be accepted by the Almighty and that the patients will take full benefit from the machine donated by them. We hope and pray that Muslim Aid UK shall extend their support to us in future also.

This year we have added many new instrument, equipments and services, Namely: - Ventilator (Portable), Manual ECG Machine, Mineral Water Plant, Central Oxygen Supply Unit, Emergency Operation Theatre, Separate Gynaecolgical Operation Theatre, C-Arm IITV, Infant Resuscitation Unit, Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy Machine and other minor equipments which are worth about Rs. 35,00,000/-. All this was possible due to generous donations from our donrs, still we lag behind as far as equipments are concerned, we shall try our best to acquire all these equipments required and try to serve the sick better and professionally with no extra cost.

Our Main Requirements are Running Cost, Heamatology Cell Counter (Fully Automatic) worth Rs. 5,50,000/- and Serum Electrolytes Cell Counter Machine worth Rs. 3,50,000/- for Pathological Laboratory Department, Automatic Electric Hydraulic Operation Table worth Rs. 1,50,000/-, Operation Theatre Lights worth Rs. 130,000/- for O.T., Ventilator (adult) for ICU & O.T. worth about Rs. 8,00,000/-, Color Doppler for Cardiac Department worth Rs. 16,00,000/- and Stress Test Machine worth Rs. 3,00,000/- for Department of Cardiology, Instruments for Endoscope worth Rs. 9,00,000/- Each, Eye-Department Equipments' Like Computerised Eye Testing Machine (Ophthalmic Chair and Computerised Eye-Sight Testing Machine) worth Rs. 4,00,000/-
(Orthopaedic Surgical Equipments worth Rs. 5,00,000/-, and Dental Department Equipments worth Rs. 50,000/-. One Trauma Care Ambulance fully equipped with all modern trauma care emergency equipments, worth 10,00,000/- and another Mobile Dispensary Vehicle worth Rs. 7,00,000/- is also required in near future in addition to the Medical Aid accessories worth Rs. 4,00,000/- which will be put inside the vehicle to tackle emergencies. If we are able to acquire all these equipments, we would be able to treat atleast most of the treatments under one roof with all the medical reliefs which we may provide economically.

We also wish to introduce C.T. Scan Machine in future for which we require Rs. Ten Million (Rs. 100,00,000/-) so that we can provide fast medical treatment for trauma care patients. Right now the patients are shifted from Alipore Hospital to Hospital in Surat (about 55 Kms. away) for C.T. Scan. If we have this machine with us at Alipore Hospital, we will be able to treat emergency patients with Head and spine injuries right in Hospital Campus.

Alipore Social Welfare Trust is a Charity Registered Trust. Apart from that it is also recognized in District Health Department. We are registered under Foreign Contribution Regulations Act, so as we can get any amount of donation from Foreign Donors, and also registered under Income- Tax Act of 80G Exemption. We are also eligible for import of equipments from any country, under Ministry of Commerce New Delhi, Import-Export Certificate No.: 5202004044.

Our aims are to serve the community with all the modern medical facilities at a very low cost, create medical awareness amongst the local populations, and create suitable job oriented opportunities. If we get full support from Almighty The Most Merciful and from you all, it can be achieved. To some extent we have been successful in achieving this goal, like nowadays even illiterate folks ask for Specialist Doctors treatment and they do try to seek their advice. We also plan for stage shows regarding Health Awareness Programmes. Our Nursing Staffs organised a stage show on the Republic Day, 26th January 2004, which was regarding Precautions from Aids. This show was acclaimed by the Doctors and people and this type of other precautional shows will be organised in future also. The gift received by the participants of the show was donated by these nurses to the Patients Welfare Fund of Alipore Hospital. This only shows how dedicated the nursing staffs were. All we can say is that we will try to do our best to continue this health awareness programmes as we believe in prevention which is better than cure.

Here we would like to express our deepest gratitude, on behalf of the trustees and people of Alipore and surrounding villages, to all those great peoples in India and abroad, who has been instrumental in the making of this hospital project come true. We also would like to express gratitude to all our Colleagues, Architect, Contractors, Doctors and our elders for their moral support to all of us.

We, all the trustees of Alipore Social Welfare Trust, would also like to express our deep gratitude to all those glorious peoples who have written to us through post, emails, web chats and telephonically, to encourage us, guide us, help us and to give their respective opinions which were very beneficial to us to serve the sick better. We request all of you to come forward and help us serve better in this good work of humanity.

We all, at Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital and Research Centre extend our gratitude to all at Muslim Aid UK for coming forward to sponsor expensive equipments like Ultra Sound Scanner Sonography Machine and Diesel Power Generator which has been very useful during frequent power failures and Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy Machine for our Operation Theatre Department. We also are grateful to the Trustees of A & A Charitable Trust for donating C-ARM IITV Scanner Machine for Operation Theatre and Infant Ventillator and Infant Resusticare Unit for Peadiatric Department.

On behalf of Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital and Research Centre, we would like to assure you that we would try our best to serve the sick in with best possible treatments. We also assure our donors of best use of their generous donations.