Welcome to ALIPORE HOSPITAL.COM

Firstly we, the trustees of Alipore Social Welfare Trust, express our sincere gratitude to Almighty and Most Merciful for selecting us for the service to Mankind. Alipore Social Welfare Trust was established with a view to serve human beings with best possible way in the remote village surrounded by 80 villages where there are inadequate modern facilities for the treatment of sick patients.

We also thank all of you who have been helpful and have given your time, money and effort for the service of the sick. Without the donors, Alipore Hospital would not have been as it is of today.

Our aims and objectives are to serve the population with best medical reliefs and services in our Hospital/Mobile Dispensaries or Charitable Dispensary and Medical Camps, create Health Awareness, Ambulance Services, help needy and poor students in Medical and Para-Medical Educations, give scholarships, help develop villages. Firstly, we shall inform you regarding our primary aim, that is Alipore Hospital.

The mega project namely, Alipore Hospital & Research Centre, has been serving the sick for the past 4 years, without any bar of caste, creed, colour or religion. Before the 1st anniversary of Alipore Hospital & Research Centre, the services rendered and the operations performed here were never imagined or heard previously. This was only possible because of Almighty's mercy and prayers and good wishes of all the elders, youngsters and benefactors.

Our aim is to serve and provide good and adequate healthcare to the sick and needy patients, treating them with the available medical facilities at this hospital by our team of medical consultants of the various departments under one roof. This we achieved by personally contacting medical consultants from nearby cities and towns, requesting and encouraging them to visit Alipore Hospital and by offering them excellent facilities and infrastructure for operations and other medical investigations in our premises.

Right now we have a Full-Time Orthopaedic Surgeon, General Physician & Cardiologist, Female Gynaecologist, General and Laparoscopic Surgeon and a full time Anaesthetist. We also have seven (7) qualified Medical Officers to look after our patients round-the-clock.

Since January 2002, we introduced Free OPD check-up / consulting by our Medical Officers. Also One-Day Medicine is given at a token rate of Rs. 5/- per day. We also re-introduced a well equipped Charitable Dispensary in the Alipore Village since October 2003, after public demand.

We still require lot of equipment and instruments for even better and more professional Medical Services and for this, we require support from all over. We all request all of you to come forward and donate generously. List of our requirements are stated in the coming pages, which we request you to please go through and try your best in helping us acquire the same.

During the very first year we started hospital services from General Surgery and Emergency (Casualty) Departments and then we began introducing various departments one after another in the next three years, like Cardiology and General Medicine, Orthopaedic, Radiology and Sonology ICCU & Surgical ICU, Pathology, Ear-Nose-Throat, Psychology, Dermatology, Urology, Gynaecology, Neuro-Surgery Consulting, Paediatric, Imaging, Anaesthesia, Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy and a Medical Store, so as to enable all the services under one roof.

Propagating and educating healthcare and bringing health awareness was a challenge to us, as most of the public around here are either illiterate or less educated. To achieve our goal in creating a good health awareness we started a programme of Free Mobile Dispensary Services (FMDS) in which we dispatch a Team of Medical Experts to various villages and treat the inhabitants right on their doorsteps. We are pleased to inform you that since the Hospital services were started 4 years ago the following Reliefs were given:

Sr. No.	Details	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2001-02)	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2002-03)	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2003-04)	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2004-05)
1	OPD	397,593	308,415	376,715	392,610
2	In-Patients/Operations	237,218	270,064	330,241	451,975
3	X-Rays	133,996	191,520	190,460	214,650
4	Sonography	41,800	90,000	89,500	116,000
5	Pathology	73,046	97,925	126,662	168,882
6	Casualty	24,260	32,149	69,250	95,300
7	Other Reliefs	39,745	47,880	55,241	55,271
8	Ambulance	20,024	4,540	12,147	16,930
	TOTAL	967,682	1,042,493	1,250,216	1,511,618

From the above table you can see that we have given reliefs worth Rs. 1,511,618/- in the year ending 31^st March 2005 (This amount is exclusive of Alipore Hospital Patients Relief Fund which had compensated to the tune of Rs. 330,975/-), Rs. 1,250,216/- in the previous year, that is 2003-04, , Rs. 1,042,493/- in year 2002-03 and Rs. 967,000/- in year 2001-02, to the poor and needy patients and this is due to generous contributions from all the donors. This performance itself is an achievement as there are no trust hospitals offering these specific types of facilities and services in and around the vicinity of Alipore.

We had to compensate Rs. 1,82,200/- to maintain the monthly cost of expenditure of the hospital. Our Monthly Income-Expenditure consists of the following:

INCOME (in Indian Rupees)	Current Year	EXPENDITURE (in Indian Rupees)	Current Year
In Patients Bill & O.P.D. Fees	214,000/-	Salaries	145,000/-
Other Incomes	109,800/-	Electricity Bill	18,500/-
(including X-Ray, Sonography,		Hon. Drs. Conveyance Fees	82,000/-
& Laboratory)		Maintenance Expenditure	12,000/-
		Medicine Purchase	46,000/-
		Printing and Stationary	10,500/-
Monthly Deficit Difference	182,200/-	Other Expenses	172,000/-
		Monthly Purchases (Hospital)	20,000/-
TOTAL	506,000/-	TOTAL	506,000/-

All these requirements are necessary to run the hospital smoothly and efficiently hence we look forward for your support and help to fulfil the same and serve the sick better.

4) PERFORMANCE
Since inception of Alipore Hospital in June – 2001, following is the performance of the inflow patients in various departments:

Year	OPD	Indoor Patient	Operation	X-Ray	Pathology	USG Sono.	Births
Jun-01 to Mar-02	15,598	5,310	223	1,960	2,815	329	55
Apr-02 to Mar-03	14,804	5,665	272	1,894	3,468	600	84
Apr-03 to Mar-04	15,520	7,228	527	2,209	3,264	466	49
Apr-04 to Mar-05	20,677	10,574	797	3,293	4,825	580	109
Apr-05 to Jun-05 (3 Months)	4,771	3,830	266	1,252	1,772	207	29
Total Patients	71,370	32,607	2,085	10,608	16,144	2,182	326

Most of the contagious diseases in India are spread are due to contaminated drinking water. To curb these water-oriented diseases, there was a need for a water purification plant or a mineral water plant. We are pleased to inform you that all our Patients, Patients’ relatives, Doctors, Nurses, Staff and Visitors at Alipore Hospital and Research Centre take benefit of FREE Mineral Drinking Water. The Mineral Water Plant (Reverse Osmosis System) was sponsored by a group of Family Members in the loving memories of their departed ones. We all extend our deepest of gratitudes to the donors.

All of us at ASWT and AHRC are grateful and extend our deep gratitude to Muslim Aid, UK for donating three equipments till date which are of great use to us, namely, Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy Machine imported from Germany (now we are able to perform Key-Hole Surgeries which are only available and possible in big cities and towns). Ultra Sound Scanner Sonography Machine which has enhanced the diagnostic skills of our consultants and Diesel Generator Set which has been very useful during frequent power failures. We all hope and pray that Muslim Aid, UK shall keep up their good work and shall donate the equipments of our need in future also. We all at Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital & Research Centre again extend our deepest gratitude to all at Muslim Aid, UK for coming forward to sponsor these expensive equipments.

Free Mobile Dispensary Services (FMDS) has been introduced with great success. Our first introduction of FDMS covered 69 villages in 10 days and from then on we can say with confidence and with surety that, the tide is turned for the better. We received very favourable response from these villages and were receiving requests from various villages to organize a medical camp in their villages and hence we have decided to extend Free Mobile Dispensary Service as a permanent Health Awareness Programme, for which we want the support of our donors. We also organized various medical camps in the interior villages where we sent out a team of General Physician & Cardiologist, Orthopaedic Surgeon, General Surgeon and a female Gynaecologist. Here we extend our deepest gratitude to the local villagers who helped us to organize these services. For making FMDS a big success, we require a big Ambulance Vehicle which comes with a cost of about Rs. 14 Lakhs for which we request our donors and you all to come forward with helping hands

We are running a Medical Store (Chemist Shop) in the premises where medicines & injections etc. are sold without charging any tax from the customers so they get all the medicines at a reasonable rate. People from neighbouring villages and towns are also benefited by this in addition to the patients of Alipore Hospital. We are on the verge to computerise the stocks, purchase & sales billing of this medical store. We have a Full-time Pharmacist and medicines are available round-the –clock at a minimum rate.

Our Main Requirement is to compensate the monthly deficit in running cost of the hospital, Ventilator (adult) for ICU & O.T. worth about Rs. 800,000/-, Colour Doppler 2D or 3D for Cardiac Department worth Rs. 1,500,000/-, Computerised Eyesight-Checking Machine worth Rs. 350,000/-, Surgical Equipments worth Rs. 500,000/- for Operation Theatres, Stress Test Tread Mill Machine for Cardiac Department worth Rs. 400,000/-, Dialysis Project worth Rs. 2,000,000/- (Rupees Twenty Lacs), Endoscope Machine worth Rs. 1,100,000/-, Surgical Microscope worth Rs. 200,000/-, Hospital Software and Computers worth Rs. 240,000/- and Dental Department Equipments worth Rs. 100,000/-. Apart from these equipments, we have many other requirements which is mentioned in the coming pages.

Since inception of Alipore Hospital, on 4th June 2001, the day the medical services were introduced in the Alipore Hospital, we had introduced Ambulance Service with a small Ambulance Vehicle. But there was a need for a full fledged ICCU and Trauma Care Ambulance Service with all Life Savings Equipments and Drugs. We hereby extend our deep gratitude to all the donors of the United Kingdom who came forward and contributed generously towards this Ambulance Project. We have now taken the delivery of this Multi-purpose Ambulance and it is coming out very useful for the patients. The picture of the Ambulance can be seen in the coming pages. We again appreciate and extend our deep gratitudes to all the donors.

Since inception of Alipore Hospital, on 4th June 2001, the day the medical services were introduced in the Hospital Campus we have never looked back. We have always gone for innovation and always tried our best to provide as many facilities in the hospital by the way of Machineries, Surgical Equipments, Hospital Furnitures, and all other medical-oriented facilities.

We started this hospital with just 15 beds which was gradually expanded to 50 beds. We have almost full capacity utilisation and shall require more rooms and facilities hence we are planning for expansion on the top floor.

Right now we are using ground floor and first floor for patients use and second floor for residential quarters for Doctors, nurses and staffs. Now that there is a need for one more floor, we plan to change residential quarters into ward rooms and build a third floor for residential quarters for Doctors, Nurses and staffs.

In the coming pages you shall see the full details of proposed expansion plan on the third floor which shall be around Rs. 5,300,000/- ( about £70,000/-) and also the structures required in the Hospital Campus along with Compound Wall, Prayer Room, Canteen, Quarters and Medical Store which will be worth around Rs. 3,400,000/-( about £ 44,700/-).

In this world of science and technology, modern machineries and computerisation, we have already passed above jet-age. The time has come for us to educate the next generation to graduation and post graduation level. We at Alipore and around Alipore lag behind as far as higher education is concerned.

Alipore Social Welfare Trust is a Charity Registered Trust. Apart from this it is also recognized by District Health Department. Many a times District Health Department has organized their meetings at our Hospital’s Conference Room. We are registered under Foreign Contribution Regulations Act, with the Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi, so that we can get any amount of donation from Foreign Donors, and are also registered under Income-Tax Act of 80G Exemption so local donors can get Tax Exemption for their donations to this trust. We are also eligible for import of equipments from any country, under Ministry of Commerce New Delhi. Here we would also like to inform you that we were offered to take care of Public Health Centre (PHC) run and managed by District Health Department by District Health Department and to improve the services at their PHC and bring innovative services there. These recognitions in various Government Departments are very instrumental for us to maintain complete, ready and transparent records, and also to keep transparency and accountability in the trust intact in the future also. The management will always be agile in keeping all the records right, up-to-date and transparent.

Our aim is 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 and medical education oriented opportunities. If we can get your full support and your well wishes, prayers and donations towards our noble cause then our aim will be achieved.

Patients care is our first priority and we will try our best to take care of them. For which we humbly request co-operation from you. Your suggestions, comments and advice are most welcome and may prove beneficial to us in serving the sick in the best possible way.

We are pleased to inform you that our website, www.aliporehospital.com has received a good response and has been gaining popularity worldwide. Our website has more than 4000 hits per month. We also receive many inquiries on our website regarding our services. We request you all to visit our website and help us with your views, suggestions and inquiry if any, so that we feel encouraged and also we can render best possible services to sick and poor patients. We also ask you to help us with your valuable suggestions for our website so that we can make it more informative, more interesting and more popular.

On behalf of the trustees and people of Alipore and surrounding villages, we would like to express our deep gratitude to all those great people in India and Abroad, who have been instrumental in the making of this hospital project. We also like to express our gratitude to all our Elders, Well Wishers, Colleagues, Doctors and our Hospital Staff for their support to us.

We, the trustees of Alipore Social Welfare Trust, would also like to express our deep gratitude to all those glorious people who have contacted us through post, emails, web chat 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 you all to come forward and help us to serve the poor and needy better through this good work of humanity.

On behalf of all at Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital and Research Centre, we would like to assure you that we will endeavour to do our best to serve the sick and needy patients with the best possible means.

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.