MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Respected Elders, Brothers & Sisters,
Milestones are an important part of journey. They reflect the distance travelled and show the road ahead. Milestones are also occasions to pause and celebrate, regroup and refuel for the journey ahead. In Alipore Social Welfare Trust, we look at milestones that reflect value as seen by our elders, our colleagues, our well-wishers, our donors, our beneficiaries, our patients and our volunteers. Year 2007-08 saw another impressive performance by ASWT. We delivered all-round growth, built and sustained our services while continuing to invest in the future.

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. Achieving these landmarks, in a tough environment for the services provided by us in Healthcare and Educational Reliefs and Scholarships was satisfying. Extending our track record set over past thirteen years was rewarding.

This brings us to the key question. Can we continue to deliver just as well in future? We are confident we can. Our confidence stems from the six fundamental factors- the healthcare environment, our donors trust and support, our strategic initiatives, our socio-economic scenario, our local aspiring students aim to achieve their goals and our passion to look beyond the services we render. Achievements do not happen in vacuum. Hey say success is a journey not a destination. And we at ASWT feel privileged to tell you that we are journeying tirelessly together, spreading footprints on these landscapes.

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 local community and surrounding population with best medical reliefs and services in our Hospital/Mobile Dispensaries or Charitable Dispensary and Medical Camps, create Health Awareness, Ambulance Services, help, encourage and fund the eligible and aspiring needy and poor students in achieving Higher Educations especially in Medical and Para-Medical and other Career-Based Higher Educations, and give scholarships, and also 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.

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

A)    ALIPORE HOSPITAL
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 7 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 where a patient has no other option and have to suffer severely. This was only possible because of Almighty's mercy and prayers and good wishes of all the elders, youngsters and benefactors.
“When Health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied.”

1) ALL TREATMENTS UNDER ONE ROOF
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.

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.

Since the inauguration(4^th June, 2001) 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, Pediatric, 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 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.

2) RELIEF GIVEN
We are pleased to inform you that since the Hospital services were started 7 years ago the following Relief were given in various departments at  Alipore Hospital :

RELIEF GIVEN IN PAST SEVEN YEARS (ended 31^st March)

The above departmental reliefs in fees were possible due to all the support we have received from our valuable and generous donors. We hereby request all you donors to contribute generously for the welfare of the patients

3) MONTHLY INCOME-EXPENDITURE
Every month, we compensate around Rs. 221,500/- to maintain the cost of expenditure of the hospital. Our Monthly Income-Expenditure consists of the following:

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
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 cannot compromise in health and hence we have Two(2) Mineral Water Plant,out of which one plant having 300 liters per hour capacity Mineral Water Plant (Reverse Osmosis System)  is fully dedicated was purchased which was especially dedicated for Heamo-Dialysis Department. The other Mineral Water plant is for public drinking water purpose. We all extend our deepest of gratitudes to the donors.

6) DONATIONS FROM MUSLIM AID, UK
A Joint Venture between Muslim Aid UK and Alipore Social Welfare Trust for Educational Relief and Scholarship Programme was estabhlished which was later named The Rainbow Family Programme. The details regarding Education Relief and Scholarships are given in the coming pages. Muslim Aid UK has generously contributed towards this Project since past Two Years.

We all at ASWT and AHRC are grateful and extend our deep gratitude to Muslim Aid, UK for joining hands with us and sponsoring Equipments and Modern Healthcare Machineries. Following are the Equipment contributed by Muslim Aid UK to Alipore Hospital & Research Centre(AHRC):-
  (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 is ably headed by Consultant Nephrologist and Kidney Transplant Specialist, Dr. Deepak Tamakuwala. We have 3 Haemo-Dialysis Machines for this Department.
c) Department of Neurology: We have Two Super Specialist Consultants in this Department. Consultant Neuro Physician Dr. Manoj Satyawani in Neuro Physician Sector and Consultant Neuro-Surgeon Dr. Prashant Patel in Neuro Surgery Section. Major Neuro Surgeries are performed at Alipore Hospital which become a boon to traumatic patients.
d) Department of Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery: is headed by Consultant Plastic and Cosmetic Surgeon from Surat, Dr. Ashutosh Shah, who does 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.
e) Department of Urology: We have Dr. Thakor Patel, Dr Arvid Dhamelia and Dr. Sumit Mahaskar in this Department who also performs all types of Urological and Prostratic Surgeries

8) DEPARTMENTS & MACHIERIES INTRODUCED
“The new electronic independence recreates the world in the image of a global village.” We cannot afford to lag behind. Following departments were introduced during the year:

9)  DEPARTMENTS TO BE INTRODUCED IN NEAR FUTURE
     a)     Blood Bank Distribution Centre (Tie-up) with Indian Red Cross Society
     b)     Modern Pathological Laboratory
     c)     Multipurpose Hall
     d)     Nursing Assistant Classrooms(under ASWT Para Medical Institute)

B) ALIPORE HOSPITAL MEDICAL STORE (PHARMACY)
Alipore Hospital Medical Store (AHMS) is now introduced in a State-of-art Pharmacy Store Premises. To enable better and even faster services we have now shifted the medical store to better premises with more facilities in our hospital campus. AHMS is serving Round the Clock, 24/7 service to the patients and local population. At AHMS, medicines & injections etc. are sold at discounted rates to the patients. 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.

C) 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:-        

List of requirements are frequently updated on webpage- Requirements at our website.

E) ALIPORE HOSPITAL AMBULANCE SERVICE
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. In the year 2004-05, we felt the need of 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. Right now we have a state-of-art, Multi-purpose ICCU-cum-Trauma Care Ambulance Vehicle which has been a boon to the local population as well as highway users apart from a small ambulance vehicle. In near future, we shall require small Ambulance costing around Rs. 400,000/- for which donors are requested to contribute generously.

F) ALIPORE HOSPITAL EXPANSION PROJECT
Work for the Third floor and also at the campus and compound wall is under progress. There was an acute need for increasing the capacity of wards / beds and other facilities and services. Alipore Hospital has been running in its optimum, many times there are frequent shortages of wards / beds due to over occupancy of wards. It is said pictures are better than thousand words. Frequent pictorial updates are available in our website.

G) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Department of Education has three departments, namely- ASWT Education Relief And Scholarship Fund, ASWT Alipore Hospital Para Medical & English Teaching Institute And Practical Training To Nurses And Laboratory Technician.

i) 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. Muslim Aid UK has generously contributed towards this scholarship programe under The Rainbow Family –Scholarship Programme.  In the coming pages we have provided details about ASWT Education Relief & Scholarship Fund. Frequent updates are also available at our website.

ii) PRACTICAL TRAINING TO NURSES & LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
At Alipore Hospital, 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 are able to 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 are able to seek for Jobs in any Pathological Laboratories in the country. We have certified 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.

Our Para-Medical Students are fortunate to get the exposure they get in various departments under Specialists and Super-Specialist Consultant Doctors. These students, mostly from poor and under-privileged families, get the benefit to use various types of modern equipments without any charges or fees. The experience they get and their exposure under different hierarchy of Medical Consultant Officers they face itself gives enough scope and experience they need for their bright future.

 iii) PROPOSED ASWT PARA MEDICAL & ENGLISH TEACHING INSTITUTE
To educate is to empower. But although everybody has the fundamental right to education in India, not many have access to it. We plan to start Para-Medical Education Institute where we can train Nursing, Nursing Assistant, Laboratory Technician and X-ray Technician Institute where we can render Theoretical as well as Practical Training. Plan to start English Teaching School is also under process. This campus will have well-educated staffs and shall also have lodging and boarding facilities for students from the far away villages. 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.

H) ALIPORE HOSPITAL PATIENT RELIEF FUND (AHPRF)
At Alipore Hospital, majority patients are from poor and under-privileged 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 very useful for these poor and needy patients. Alipore Hospital Patient Relief Fund gives medical reliefs 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 modern medical facilities at a very low expenditure, create health and medical awareness amongst the local populations. Proper hygiene is taught. Preventive care is always necessary which is taken into priority. We also try to generate suitable job and medical and para-medical education related job opportunities. If we can get your continued support, good wishes, prayers and generous contributions towards these noble causes, 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) 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 recent flood in Surat, ASWT Alipore Hospital Disaster Relief Fund had done commendable relief works. We all thank Almighty and Most Merciful that during the year we had not experienced any natural disaster. To keep ourselves ready for any unforeseen natural disaster we do require keeping ourselves ready. Hence we require to maintain and secure this fund in handy.

K) VOLUNTEERING
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. “Winning comes from teamwork.”  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.

L) 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. We would also like to congratulate Government of Gujarat for the Emergency Service rendered by them via 108 Programme. The Ambulance Services under 108 has become very popular and has been widely accepted by the local population. Alipore Hospital has been supporting this service and have always co-operated and rendered full support to 108 Emergency Programme.

M) GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION
Alipore Social Welfare Trust is a Charity Registered Public Trust. Alipore Hospital is recognized by District Health Department. District Health Department has frequently organized their meetings at our Hospital’s Conference Room. ASWT is 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.

N) ALIPOREHOSPITAL.COM
Our website, www.aliporehospital.com has been gaining popularity worldwide. Our website has more than 4000 hits per month. We receive frequent inquiries on website regarding our services. We request you all to continue visiting our website and help us with your valuable views, suggestions and inquiries if any, so that we get encouragement and  that 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.

O) LATE AHMED MAYET HOSPITAL BUILDING
Since more than 35 years the building meant for Hospital used as been lying vacant along the Highway Road in Alipore.This building has been under the possession of Alipore Muslim Association, South Africa(AMA SA). AMA SA passed a resolution to handover the abovesaid building to Alipore Social Trust for Maternity and Paeditric Facilities. But as Alipore Hospital has these Department Facilities in the Hospital Building itself and the Programme of ‘All Treatment Under One Roof’ has been a big success we have requested AMA SA to permit us to use for any other purpose for the welfare of the community which is acceptable as per the aims and objectives of the trust. We are still waiting for the response from AMA SA. Here we would like to extend our deepest gratitude and sincere thanks to all the members of AMA SA who had taken this step and have felt ASWT fit for taking possession of this building.

P) ORBITUARIES
Every living object has to face the reality – Death. But when we lose some visionary or our respected elders it is considered to be one of the major loss which is not replaceable and the vaccum still remains. We had faced two major setbacks, during the year, due to the sad demise of the Two Great Sons of our Soil. Firstly when we lost Late Haji Ismail Hassan Mayet, Chaiman Emeritus of Alipore Social Welfare Trust and Secondly when Late Haji Ebrahim Ismail Patel, a social worker, who had served the community by paying integral part in Alipore Jamaat and Waterworks for most of the part of his life and who also was an ardent supporter of our projects, left us for heavenly abode. We would like to remind you all that, Alipore Hospital Project was a vision and brainchild of Late Haji Ismail Hassan Mayet. His good wishes and duaas for all the Projects of ASWT have been tremendous.  ‘May Almighty Bestow them with Highest of all stages in Jannah-tul-Firdaus(Paradise). – Ameen!

P)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, Zakaat, Sadaqah 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 all at Alipore Social Welfare Trust, would also like to express our deep gratitude and sincere thanks to all those who have contacted us through post, e-mails, web-chat and telephone calls, 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. “More is possible and needed.” But it is not possible without Almghty’s mercy and support from your side  

May the Almighty and Most Merciful bestow the best of his 'niamats' to you, in this world and the hereafter and May He show us all the right path and truth. Ameen

For Alipore Social Welfare Trust
Hassan  Mayet               AbdulHai Gajaria                Bashir Karolia  
Yusuf Loonat                 GulamNabi Laher                Ashraf Vali
 

Date : 8th August 2008
Place: ALIPORE