Hospital in Gujarat, India

SEWA Rural (Society for Education, Welfare and Action–Rural) is a voluntary development organization involved in health and development activities in rural tribal areas in the Jhagadia block in southern Gujarat since 1980.

Aiming for overall development of the rural, poor and tribal population Bharuch Dist., the organisation has encompassed various fields including hospital, community based outreach health care, comprehensive eye care, health training centre, vocational training institute for rural youth and women development center for promoting women empowerment. Some more information about SEWA Rural will be available in our website <www.sewarural.org>

The grant in Kasturba Hospital based at Jhagadia, provides round the clock services in the fields of OBGY, Paediatrics, General Medicine and Ophthalmology. The hospital is fully equipped with labor room, operation theatre, Neonatal ICU, laboratory, X-ray, sonography, blood bank and life saving medicines. The hospital has a full time staff of about 25 medical doctors and other 50 trained paramedical staff. The mother and baby friendly hospital is also recognized as First Referral Unit (FRU) by state government and UNICEF and ensures Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric & Newborn Care (CEmONC).

Patient from more than 5000 villages belonging to Bharuch and nearby districts and boarder states takes the advantage of our hospital. Yearly outdoor patients load is around 70,000 and 12,000 for indoor admissions, while than 2000 deliveries and about 7000 surgeries (including cataract) are being performed every year. All the services are either subsidised or free for the needy. More than 85 % patients in Indoor and 50 % patients in OPD are treated free. The yearly recurring expenditure of the hospital is about Rs. 2.5 crores. The income from patient receipt is only about 25 % of the recurring expenditure and state government grant contributes about 50 % while the rest (25 % deficit) is met through raising donations every year.