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Secretary's Report 2004-05 - Social
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Table of Contents
Medical
Founded in 1979, Health and Healing unit of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture aims at providing Integrated Health Services. This includes health cure, health care and health development.
Health Cure |
Health Care |
Health Develoment |
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- Allopathy Medicine
- Alternative Medicine
- Medical Camps
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- Students health check-up
- Immunisation of children
- Eye exercise
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Health Cure
Allopathy Medicine
Eminent doctors continue to provide services for treatment of patients on scheduled dates. The patients are treated on out patient basis. Needy patients have also been given free medicines (depending on availability of stock) collected from medical representatives of reputed pharmaceutical companies. In all 2545 patients have been treated with allopathic medicine in the unit. Number of patients treated in each specialised discipline are given below :
Discipline |
Number of
patients |
| EYE |
370 |
| DENTAL |
723 |
| GENERAL MEDICINE |
377 |
| E.N.T. |
154 |
| PAEDIATRICS |
598 |
| GYNAECOLOGY |
137 |
| SKIN |
24 |
| ORTHOPAEDICS |
63 |
| CARDIOLOGY |
72 |
| UROLOGY and GENERAL SURGERY |
27 |
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Intensive services are now being provided in dental section and so more and more people are now visiting us for dental treatment. This includes tooth extraction, tooth de-scaling, root-canal treatment apart from other dental problems.
To strengthen the services in medicine and cardiology, an ECG machine has been purchased in January and is being used for taking ECG of patients. During the period of February to March 2005, 10 ECGs were done.
X-ray machine, though old, has been used primarily for dental purposes. 129 X-rays have been taken during the year.
Alternative medicine
Two alternative disciplines in which doctors have continued to provide services are homeopathy and acupuncture. The no. of patients who availed of the services are as follows :
Homeopathy 96
Acupuncture 85
Medical camp
A free medical camp was organized on March 6, 2005 to give an opportunity to the people in the surrounding area for treatment of various health problems such as ENT, SKIN, EYE, Dental, Heart and General Health under the same roof within a short time. 100 patients visited the camp.
Health Care
Students health check-up
Health-check up of almost all the students of Arun Nursery School, and The Future Foundation School was done during the year. At first a general health check-up of the students was done by our General Physician. General Physician recommended some students for further check-up by Eye, ENT and Dental specialists. At the end a health report was prepared for each student and sent to the guardian for intimation and further follow up. Apart from this, emergency/accidental injuries of students were treated by doctors as and when necessary.
Immunisation of children
The Institute arranged immunisation of children in association with Govt. of West Bengal, Health and family Welfare department like previous years. This includes double antigen, triple-antigen, anti-tetanus, antipolio vaccinations. Hepatitis_B injection was also administered. Immunisation of 795 children was carried out during this year.
Eye exercise
Following in the footsteps of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, a specially trained person teaches eye exercise.
Health Development
Gym exercise
The Gym has been kept open on all days except Sunday from 6.30 am to 6.30 pm. Both ladies and gents use the gym. On an average, 27 people have been on the rolls every month during the year.
Internship of International Medical Students
A team of 9 medical students from Virginia Medical Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University has undergone internship under our doctors. The objective was to see how Indian doctors provide health-care services to patients using minimum resources. First a team of two medical students came and examined the patients under guidance of our doctors for one week. This was followed by another 2 teams in subsequent two weeks. Two special medical camps involving our doctors in specialised disciplines were organised for all the nine team members. The international students have appreciated the health care services rendered by the Institute to the poor and needy people.
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