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2005-2006 in many ways has been a defining year for Alipore Social Welfare Trust. We have taken a giant step forward and introduced the much awaited Super-Speciality Departments i.e. Department of Cardiology, Department of Nephrology, Department of Plastic Surgery and Department of Neurology and upgraded Department of Urology. We have also for the first time introduced the ‘ASWT Education Relief and Scholarship Fund’ which will enable us to promote Higher Education for the eligible students within the poor and needy community.

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 around 80 villages where there are inadequate modern facilities for the treatment of sick patients. We hereby 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. I would like to remind you, as we mentioned in our earlier report, before the 1st anniversary of Alipore Hospital & Research Centre, the services rendered in various departments 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 General Physician & Cardiologist, Female Gynaecologist, General and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Full-Time Orthopaedic Surgeon, and a full time Anaesthetist. We also have five (5) qualified Housemen 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 still require lot of equipment and instruments for even better and more professional Medical Services and for this, we require support from all over. To provide better services and facilities at Alipore Hospital, we a planning to start the construction work of Alipore Hospital Campus Project soon after approval of our project plan.

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, Heamo-Dialysis Department 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)	Reliefs Given in Rs. (Year 2005-06)
1	OPD	397,593	308,415	376,715	392,610	490,460
2	In-Patients/Operations	237,218	270,064	330,241	451,975	967,905
3	X-Rays	133,996	191,520	190,460	214,650	396,160
4	USG Sonography	41,800	90,000	89,500	116,000	137,550
5	Pathology	73,046	97,925	126,662	168,882	136,387
6	Casualty	24,260	32,149	69,250	95,300	22,380
7	Other Reliefs Dept.	39,745	47,880	55,241	55,271	61,240
8	Ambulance	20,024	4,540	12,147	16,930	48,277
	TOTAL	967,682	1,042,493	1,250,216	1,511,618	2,260,359

The above table shows that we have given reliefs worth Rs. 2,260,359/- in the year ending 31^st March 2006 which is about 34% higher than previous year figure of Rs. 1,511,618 (31/03/2005). This amount is exclusive of Alipore Hospital Patient Relief Fund which had compensated to the tune of Rs. 330,975/-. This was possible due to all the support we get from our valuable and generous 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.

Every month, we compensate Rs. 173,000/- to maintain the 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	350,000/-	Salaries	246,500/-
Other Incomes	246,000/-	Electricity Bill	40,000/-
(including X-Ray, Sonography,		Hon. Drs. Conveyance Fees	102,000/-
& Laboratory)		Maintenance Expenditure	12,000/-
		Medicine Purchase	46,000/-
		Printing and Stationary	10,500/-
Monthly Deficit Difference	173,000/-	Other Expenses & Purchases	192,000/-
		Taxes & Providend Fund	20,000/-
TOTAL	769,000/-	TOTAL	769,000/-

All these expenses mentioned above are necessary to run the hospital smoothly and efficiently hence we look forward for support and help from all the generous donors to fulfil the same and serve the sick better to meet the deficit.

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 Mar-06	23,000	15,892	1,021	4,952	8,602	917	130
Apr-06 to Jun-06 (3 Months)	5,467	3,247	194	1,218	1,872	232	38
Total Patients	95,066	47,916	3,034	15,526	24,846	3,124	465

Most of the contagious diseases in India are spread 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. We have upgraded this plant during the year.

All of us at ASWT and AHRC are grateful and extend our deep gratitude to Muslim Aid, UK for joining hands with us and sponsoring for Super-Speciality Equipments for Department of Cardiology, namely 2D Cardiac Colour Doppler Scanner Machine and Fully Computerised Stress Test Machine. Till date, Muslim Aid UK have donated Five Equipments which are of great use to us, namely, 2D Cardiac Colour Doppler Scanner Machine (imported from Italy) and Fully Computerised Stress Test Machine, Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy Machine imported from Germany (we are now 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.

7) INTRODUCTION OF SUPER-SPECIALITY DEPARTMENTS AND UPGRADATION OF DEPARTMENTS

We are pleased to inform you that we have introduced Super-Speciality Departments to help patients to seek for better and professional consultant Doctors for which we have launched Department of Cardiology, Department of Nephrology, Department of Plastic Surgery and Department of Neurology and we have also upgraded Department of Urology and Physio-Therapy.

a) 2D Colour Doppler Cardiac Scanner and Computerised Stress Test Department: was introduced during the year for which Muslim Aid UK had sponsored for the equipments. Dr. Pradip Patel MD is qualified for this Department. Dr. Mahesh Vinchurkar, renowned Cardio-Vascular Surgeon from Surat is also visiting us. Without the help of Muslim Aid UK this department would have been just a dream.

b) Nephrology & Hemo-Dialysis Department: Department of Nephrology was introduced after attachment with Consultant Nephrologist and Kidney Transplant Specialist, Dr. Deepak Tamakuwala. Alipore Social Welfare Trust is proud to inform you that we now have Nephrologist serving our patients at a very low cost, right near their village, and that long-awaited Dialysis Department was estabhlished with generous contributions from the United Kingdom.

c) Department of Neurology: was reintroduced after the Consultant Neuro-Surgeon from Surat, Dr. Prashant Patel consented to give consultation and surgical services at the Alipore Hospital. Since the day we have reintroduced Department of Neurology, we have never seen back. Neurology Department is fully booked and Major Operations pertaining to this department are performed in Alipore Hospital.

d) Department of Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery: was reintroduced after the Consultant Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeon from Surat, Dr. Ashutosh Shah consented to give Consultation and Surgical Services at the Alipore Hospital. We have seen many miraculous cosmetic surgeries at Alipore Hospital. Burns Patients are very much benefited with the surgeries being performed in Alipore Hospital which has reduced their burden to travel 50 – 60 kms. away from their houses.

Soon we shall also have Neuro-Physician and Intraventional Cardiologist in our team of Super-Specialists. We have also upgraded Department of Urology, Department of PhysioTherapy and Operation Theatres with many modern and superior instruments and equipments and soon we shall be upgrading ENT and Opthalmology Departments.

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 as well as at Alipore Hospital Campus. 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. 800,000/- (£ 9,525/-), for which we request our donors and you all to come forward with helping hands

We are running a Medical Store (Pharmacy) in the premises, where medicines & injections etc. are sold at discounted rates to the patients, so they get all the medicines at a reasonable rate. The round-the-clock service, easy availability of medicines and that too without going to the towns and cities and at discounted rates have been boon to the population around Alipore. We would like to remind you that in the previous report we had inform you that we shall be computerising the pharmacy so that the stocks, purchase sales, billing of the pharmacy is maintained professionally, for better service and management purpose. The pharmacy is now computerised. Medicines are available round-the-clock at discounted rates.

Our Main Requirement is to compensate the monthly deficit in running cost of the hospital and also for introducing new machineries for better service and facility to the patients. Following are the requirements of the machineries for the year 2006-07:

Sr. No.	Details	Cost In Indian Rs.	Cost In GBP £
1	Two(2)Ventilators Rs. 800,000/- (£ 9,525) each	1,600,000	19,050
2	Endoscope Machine	1,100,000	13,095
3	2 Multi-Para Monitors Rs. 200,000/- (£ 2,380) each	400,000	4,760
4	Computerised Eyesight Testing Machine	350,000	4,167
5	Dental Department Equipments	100,000	1,190

Apart from these equipments, we also require to purchase or upgrade or replace many old machineries and equipments for example we have one USG Scanner Machine which will be required to be phased out to a better and upgraded model of Ultra Sound Sonography Scanner Machine in near future. List of requirements are frequently updated in Equipments page in this website.

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 now possess a state-of-art, Multi-purpose Ambulance Vehicle which has been a boon to the local population as well as highway users. We again appreciate and extend our deep gratitudes to all the donors. In near future we will require one small Ambulance costing around Rs. 400,000/- for which donors are requested to contribute generously.

Alipore Hospital is running in its optimum, many a times there is shortages of wards / beds due to over occupancy of wards. There is an acute need for increasing the capacity of wards / beds. In the coming pages you shall see the full details of proposed expansion plan on the third floor and also the Hospital Campus Plan Alipore Hospital Expansion Project Plan is submitted to the District Development Department, Government of Gujarat for approval. Details are also available in our website.

Higher Education is the need of the day. We, at and around Alipore lag behind as far as higher education is concerned. Hence we have introduced this fund to help eligible, poor and needy students from the area for higher education. In the coming pages we have given full details about ASWT Education Relief & Scholarship Fund. Details are also available in our website.

The maximum inflow of patients at Alipore Hospital is from poor and needy families. Alipore Hospital Patient Relief Fund was introduced to help the patients for hospital and medicine bills. We are proud to state that this fund has been a boon to the poor and needy patients. Alipore Hospital Patient Relief Fund gives medical benefits to all the poor people without any bar of caste, creed, colour or religion. Here we thank all our Sadaqah Fund Coin Box Donors to make this fund possible.

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 have a plan to join hands with all the people from Alipore and villages around Alipore and setup an Institution where we can provide English Medium Education right from the Kindergarten level to Higher Secondary level. This campus will have well educated staffs and also have lodging and boarding facilities for students from the far away villages. For this, we have initially named this Project as, ‘ASWT English Teaching Institute’ which may be renamed, if necessary, by the future managing committee members.

Here we shall start the Education Awareness programme by directly contacting people from all villages and set up a committee which shall comprise of village elders, school teachers or principals and professionals. We extend our deep gratitude to all those people from various villages for their deep concern they have shown towards the education needs in our community. For this project we require feedbacks from all the people from Alipore and surrounding villages to come forward and send us their opinions and suggestions.

Gujarat State has, in the past few years, experienced worst of disasters like earthquakes, cyclone, torrential rainfall leading to massive floods epidemic spread out and communal riots. To keep our selves ready for relief works the members of Alipore Social Welfare Trust’s have launched a fund which shall be called “ASWT Alipore Hospital Disaster Relief Fund”. Please find the details in the coming pages and also find the updates from our website.

We are giving practical training to nursing students since four years. We are proud to inform you that we certify their experience after which these student nurses seek for jobs in the hospitals around their area and in this way we help them achieve self-reliance and self-sufficiency. Till date we have certified hundreds of students nurses. We would like to inform you that unlike in other hospitals, we are giving these practical trainings to these students without any fees or charges. We also give practical trainings to DMLT (Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technician) Students without any fees or charges. After certification, they can seek for Jobs in any Pathological Laboratories in the country. The demand for this in our hospital is more because these students are benefited with the exposure they get in various departments under Specialists and Super-Specialist Consultant Doctors. They also get the benefit to use various equipments and also because we do not charge them any fees. The experience they get and their exposure under different hierarchy of Officers they face, and to serve patients under Super- Specialists and Consultant Doctors itself gives enough scope and experience they need for their bright future.

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 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.

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. We also express our gratitude to local press reporters and also to ‘Awaaz’, Multi-lingual newspaper of West Yorkshire, UK, for giving coverage about Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital activities.

On behalf of all at Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital & 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. We would like to assure you that we would try our best to serve the sick in with best possible treatments. May the Almighty and Most Merciful bestow the best of his 'niamats' in both the worlds and May He show us all the right path and truth. Ameen!