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This landmark year for Alipore Social Welfare Trust has seen the culmination of an exhilarating odyssey marked by many distinctions and firsts. We are pleased to inform you that our team members in all hierarchy continued to perform well. The management has unveiled a challenge – that being way ‘Distinctly Ahead’ and the philosophy has been outlined in this year’s Management Discussion and Analysis.

Every milestone that we cross, enthuses us to do more. But what gives us deep satisfaction is our consistent performance. We believe that our consistency is a result of our strategic insights, the conviction to invest on those insights and the ability to rigorously execute and convert the insights to reality.

We believe that ─ “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity- not a threat.” We are doing just that.

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 all 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.

Secondly, 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.

Thirdly, Technology is the springboard to the future. It is a bridge between aspiration and accomplishment. Every technological achievement is both destination and point of departure for one breakthrough leads to another........ and another. If technology drives hospitals than what drives technology. The answer lies in human mind, in a spirit that is impatient with the status quo and in the soaring flight of imagination. It is an answer to our policy to serve better is indeed reflected in its tagline ─ “Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist design it.”

Here we take opportunity inform to you regarding our activities, hence we start with Alipore Hospital Project.

“When Health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied.”

ASWT’s participation in building a healthy community manifests itself through initiatives in several areas of healthcare. Alipore Hospital has been serving the sick for the past 6 years, without any bar of caste, creed, colour or religion. We would like to remind you, that we did mentioned in our earlier report, on the 1st anniversary of Alipore Hospital, the services rendered in various departments and the operations performed here were never imagined or heard previously in this part of the country. 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 best 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. Technology and adopting frequent updated equipment just adds to the better services we could provide.

Since inception of Alipore Hospital services we have rendered 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.

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 apart from daily Dental Surgery. We also have five (7) 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 have started the construction work at Alipore Hospital Campus Project and also the Third Floor Expansion work is in progress.

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:

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 fulfill 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:

5) MINERAL WATER PLANT

We cannot compromise in health and hence fully dedicated 300 litters per hour capacity Mineral Water Plant (Reverse Osmosis System) was purchased which was especially dedicated for Heamo-Dialysis Department.

We also have another mineral water for drinking water purpose. 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. We all extend our deepest of gratitudes to the donors. We have upgraded this plant previous year.

6) DONATIONS FROM MUSLIM AID, UK

During the year MuslimAid UK had co-sponsored a Joint Venture for Students Scholarship with ASWT’s Education Relief and Scholarship Fund.

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, following are the contributions from Muslim Aid UK to us:-

Scholarship Fund (2006-07)

(i) 2D Cardiac Colour Doppler Scanner Machine (Italy) 2005-06

(ii) Fully Computerised Stress Test Machine, 2005-06

(iii) Laparoscopy and Arthroscopy Machine from Germany (we are now able to perform Key-Hole Surgeries which are only available and possible in big cities and towns). 2003-04

(iv) Ultra Sound Scanner Sonography Machine 2001-02

(v) Diesel Generator Set which has been very useful during frequent power failures. 2001-02

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 and also for Scholarship Joint Venture.

7) SUPER-SPECIALITY DEPARTMENTS AND UPGRADATION OF DEPARTMENTS

We are pleased to inform you that we had 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 namely − ICCU, Operation Theatres, Gynaecology, Dental Surgery, Radiology, Ear-Nose-Throat(ENT), Emergency and other departments.

Following are the details about our Super-Specialist Departments:

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 & Haemo-Dialysis Department: Department of Nephrology was introduced after attachment with Consultant Nephrologist and Kidney Transplant Specialist, Dr. Deepak Tamakuwala. We have 3 Haemo-Dialysis Machines for this Department.

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 soon also have Neuro-Physician and Intraventional Cardiologist in our team of Super-Specialists.

8) DEPARTMENTS TO BE INTRODUCED

“The new electronic independence recreates the world in the image of a global village.” We cannot afford to lag behind.

Following departments are to be introduced soon:-

a) Spiral C.T. Scan Centre

b) Blood Bank Distribution Centre

c) Morgue

d) Canteen

e) Modern Pathological Laboratory

f) Conference Hall

g) Medical Store (Pharmacy)

B) FREE MOBILE DISPENSARY SERVICE (FMDS)

Free Mobile Dispensary Services (FMDS) was been introduced with great success since 2002-03. 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 at their premises. 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.

C) ALIPORE HOSPITAL MEDICAL STORE (PHARMACY)

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 inform you that we have computerised the pharmacy. Medicines are available round-the-clock at discounted rates. To enable better and even faster services we shall be soon shifting the medical store to larger premises with more facilities in our hospital campus.

D) REQUIREMENTS

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 2007-08:-

Sr. No.	Details	Cost of 1 Unit In Indian Rs.	Cost of 1 Unit In GBP (£)	Total Cost In Indian Rs.	Total Cost In GBP £
1	Two(2) Ventilators	800,000	9,876	1,600,000	19,752
2	Endoscope Machine	1,100,000	13,580	1,100,000	13,580
3	2 Multi-Para Monitors	200,000	2,380	400,000	4,940
4	Computerised Eyesight Testing Machine	350,000	4,320	350,000	4,320
5	Small Ambulance	400,000	4,940	400,000	4,940
6	Ultra Sound Sonography Scanner Machine	700,000	8,640	700,000	8,640
7	2 Pulse Oxymeters	41,000	500	82,000	1,000
8	Surgical Equipments	----	----	1,50,000	1,830

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 during the year. List of requirements are frequently updated in Equipments page in this website.

E) ALIPORE HOSPITAL AMBULANCE PROJECT

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 and a larger vehicle to enable us for better Free Mobile Dispensary Service.

F) ALIPORE HOSPITAL EXPANSION PROJECT

Alipore Hospital is running in its optimum, many a times there is shortages of wards / beds due to over occupancy of wards. There was an acute need for increasing the capacity of wards / beds and other facilities and services. In the coming pages you shall see the full details about the expansion plan on the third floor and also the Hospital Campus Plan. Details are also available in our website.

G) ASWT EDUCATION RELIEF & SCHOLARSHIP FUND

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.

H) ALIPORE HOSPITAL PATIENT RELIEF FUND (AHPRF)

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.

I) HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMMES

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.

J) PROPOSED ASWT ENGLISH TEACHING INSTITUTE

“We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve.

Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us.”

To educate is to empower. But although everybody has the fundamental right to education in India, not many have access to it.

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 shall 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.

Through ASWT Education Relief and Scholarship Fund, we have started the Education Awareness programme by directly contacting people from all villages and set up a committee which comprises of educationists, elders, school teachers or principals and other 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.

K) ASWT ALIPORE HOSPITAL DISASTER RELIEF FUND

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 is called “ASWT Alipore Hospital Disaster Relief Fund”. During the year we had experienced worst of the flood disasters in Surat. ASWT Alipore Hospital Disaster Relief Fund has done some relief works which can be seen in the coming pages. Details are also available in our website.

L) PRACTICAL TRAINING TO NURSES & LABORATORY TECHNICIANS

We are giving practical training to nursing students more than half a decade. 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 student 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. We have more than 200 trained nurses from our areas working in various hospitals and primary healthcares, our trained laboratory technicians and our trained X-Ray Technicians are now serving the population in many medical clinics.

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. These students 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.

M) VOLUNTEERING

“Winning comes from teamwork.”

Social responsibility is born in personal conviction, a matter of individual choice. At ASWT, a climate conducive to the spirit of volunteering enables these activities to be virtually self-driven while remaining consistent and structured. From taking initiatives in building the next generation of productive citizens, to organizing various health and educational camps, visiting other healthcares, institutions, etc we and our volunteers have always believed in truly making a difference to the world in which we live. Our volunteers worked round-the-clock during the recent Surat Flood Disaster and outburst of epidemic.

N) PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT SCHEME

Department of Health, Government of Gujarat, has introduced “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in which the Hospitalisation Cost of Patient’s Below Poverty Line (BPL) are given Free Services in order to curb Pregnancy Deaths. Alipore Hospital has joined hands with the Department of Health and is serving these expectant mothers.

O) GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION

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, hence Indian Donors do 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. 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.

P) ALIPOREHOSPITAL.COM

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.

Q) GRATITUDE

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 and also extending their valuable support and co-operations in the other activites of Alipore Social Welfare Trust. We also like to express our gratitude to all our Elders, Well Wishers, Colleagues, Doctors and our Hospital Staff for their support to us.

Our sincere thanks to all volunteers in UK who throughout the year collect Lillah, Zakat, Sadqah and Interest money, and goes out to empty door to door donation boxes, without their help and dedication, the work of our trust and hospital would not have been as it is of today. Our sincere thanks also to all the members of Muslim Aid UK who have time and again extended their support and contributions to us. May Almighty and Most Merciful accept their hard work and be rewarded. Most of the Funds come from their effort. May we thank you all those people who help and care for ASWT and Alipore Hospital.

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, e-mails, 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’ and ‘Paigaam’, Multi-lingual newspapers of West Yorkshire, UK, for giving coverage about Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Alipore Hospital activities. Our sincere thanks also to all our local press reporters.

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!

“More is possible and needed.”