An Overview
Healthcare
‘vaidyo nārāyaṇo hariḥ’ is an ancient Indian phrase which states that “A Doctor is a form of Narayana or God Himself”. This timeless truth is at the core of the work that is done through this mission, leading the way to establish global models of tertiary care providing quality services, totally free of cost.
THE PROBLEM
The Burden of Congenital Heart Diseases in India
The Challenge of Healthy Childhood in India is two-pronged. First, those detected with diseases and defects, face inadequate availability and accessibility to quality healthcare and the large numbers of those who remain undetected or undiagnosed, sadly miss out on the joy and benefit of a healthy and happy childhood.
The burden and pain of congenital heart diseases on children and their families is a cruel and an unfortunate reality of our times. Sadly, it is the commonest disease at birth in India with an incidence of 240,000 per annum. Surgical intervention is often unavoidable to a critically diseased child.
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani aims to establish a holistic ecosystem for Child Heart Care. These Centres across India are unique in as much as they are High Quality and Large Volume Paediatric Cardiac Centres, as they are key Nodal Centres of Community Health, Research and Training. The Hospitals are one of their kind Centres for Child Heart Care providing Totally Free of Cost Care to the needy.
Sanjeevani recognises the importance of Prevention and Early Detection in comprehensively addressing this national burden. While the Research Programme aims at unravelling the possible causes of Congenital Heart Diseases, the Divine Mother and Child Health Program provides access to quality healthcare facilities through its rural Ante natal care and Child screening initiatives. The child is tomorrow’s citizen and the future of the country.
November 2012
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centre for Child Heart Care at Nava Raipur Atal Nagar
Inaugurated in Chhattisgarh in November 2012.
October 2016
Aruike Specialty Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
Enugu, Nigeria
November 2016
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani International Centre for Child Heart Care & Research
Inaugurated by the Hon. Prime Minister of India, Mr Narendra Modi at Baghola, Palwal District, Haryana
August 2017
Sri Sathya Sai Karunalayam Medical Centre
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
April 2018
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Medical Centre, Suva, Fiji
Suva, Fiji
November 2018
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centre for Child Heart Care & Training in Pediatric Cardiac Skills
Established as a Public Service Institution in Khargar, Navi Mumbai
April 2019
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Screening Centre
Suva, Fiji
June 2019
Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Medical Centre, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
August 2020
Aruike Specialty Hospital, Imo, Nigeria
Imo, Nigeria
September 2021
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Mother and Child Hospital
Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh
April 2022
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Hospital
Suva, Fiji
August 2022
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
17 November 2022
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centre for Child Heart Care and Research
Inaugurated at Siddipet, Telangana.
November 2022
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Heart Care Centre, Muddenahalli
Inaugurated in Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka.
Sanjeevani's Impact in India
Statistics as of Q2, 2023
27,500
Paediatric Cardiac Invasive and Non-Invasive Procedures
212,000+
Outpatient Consultations
216,000+
Outreach Screenings
27,500
Paediatric Cardiac Invasive and Non-Invasive Procedures
212,000+
Outpatient Consultations
216,000+
Outreach Screenings
Serving children in need
The Hospitals have served patients from across India and several developing countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, Liberia, Yemen, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Cambodia and Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
SHRAWANI NANDLAL JADHAV
8 Months, Maharashtra
Ventricular Septal Defect Surgical Closure
July 26, 2019
IBRAHIM SAFI
1yr 8 Months, Afghanistan
Intracardiac Repair
Apr 5, 2019
EHISTSHAN HASMI
4 Yrs, Uttar Pradesh
Intracardiac Repair
June 6, 2018
Muddenahalli
Sri Sathya Sai Sarla Memorial Hospital
Against the background of 70% of Indians living in rural areas without access to high-end speciality care, and on an average 60% of healthcare expenses being out of pocket, thus pushing 6 million people below poverty line every year, the Sri Sathya Sai Sarla Memorial Hospital stands tall as a beacon of hope by offering free of cost speciality care to the rural and underprivileged sections of the society.
The Hospital was dedicated to the service of the nation by Honourable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Sri Basavaraj Bommai, along with Dr K Sudhakar – Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education – Government of Karnataka on 27 August 2021.
Construction of the Hospital commenced in 2015 under the guidance of Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai. On 14 January 2018, medical services commenced at the Sri Sathya Sai Sarla Memorial Hospital in memory of late Mrs Sarla Indulal Shah, an ardent devotee of Sri Sathya Sai Baba who dedicated her life for the service and upliftment of women and children.
The Hospital serves patients in various disciplines of:
- General Medicine
- Paediatrics
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Dentistry
- ENT
- Physiotherapy
- and more…
Many voluntary caregivers extend their love and compassion by visiting the Hospital regularly to provide specialty services.
Muddenahalli
Sri Sathya Sai Rajeswari Memorial Block
The Sri Sathya Sai Rajeswari Memorial Academic Block is an edifice of Learning and Healing instituted by Prashanthi Balamandira Trust. This state-of-the-art facility would serve as the academic block for the Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research.
The magnificent architecture of the Sri Sathya Sai Rajeswari Memorial Academic Block symbolizes man’s pursuit of ascension under the guiding dome of medical excellence of giants of the yore and universal grace. This academic block is dedicated to the selfless service of Dr C Rajeswari, an acclaimed obstetrician and gynaecologist.
She was blessed by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba to commence His Medical Mission in 1970, offering totally free of cost healthcare services. Her tireless efforts to serve the sick & needy and to build Institutions of Healthcare Excellence are remembered with great respect and gratitude to this day.
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Nation
Divine Mother and Child Health Program
To further the nation’s commitment towards a healthy life for its children and create a holistic and sustainable impact on society, it was imperative to focus on the preventive and educative healthcare spectrum of Child Heart Care. It is in this context that the hospital’s Department of Public Health and Research launched the Divine Child Health Program in 2013 – a comprehensive early detection and systemic health screening programme for rural school going children, to create a holistic and sustainable impact on the society.
The Child Health Screening is based on Government of India’s Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) and focuses on detection of 4Ds:
- Defects at birth
- Deficiencies
- Disease
- Developmental delays and disabilities.
The programme expanded into the Divine Mother and Child Health Program in September 2017, focusing on Preventive Care for Pregnant women and children.
Impact of Maternal and Child Health Services
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Mother and Child Hospitals
Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Yavamal, Maharashtra
Palwal, Haryana
Raiwala, Uttarakhand
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Preventive Healthcare
Rural Healthcare Services
Preventive health care that provides early diagnosis is the need of the hour. Sai Swasthya Wellness Centres are primary diagnostic healthcare centres that are being set up in the rural hinterlands under the rural community outreach program of Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, a one-of-its-kind free of cost medical college and hospital established by Prashanti Balamandira Trust. By collaborating with the various like-minded organisations and government initiated programmes, these centres will diagnose basic health issues with the help of healthcare professionals specially trained for this purpose, and also dispense medicines free of cost.
Keeping preventive healthcare as the futuristic vision of India’s healthcare model, Sai Swasthya will offer primary healthcare services like preventive diagnostics, outpatient consultations, telehealth consultations, rural outreach camps, and referrals to tertiary healthcare centres of the trust and allied hospitals which provide all services totally free of cost. In the next ten years 6,000 centres will be set up across the country at every Taluk, and 6000 young school-pass outs or students pursuing their higher education, with higher priority to girls, will be trained to assist patients coming to the centre alongside qualified medical professionals thus creating rural employment as well.
Making quality healthcare accessible to every citizen of India to create a Swastha Bharath (स्वस्थ भारत) and Samruddha Bharath (समृद्ध भारत) during the amrit kaal is the vision of Sai Swasthya and the associated healthcare institutions of the Trusts, under the guidance of Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai.
Sai Swasthya Centres:
- Vishakapatnam, Andhrapradesh
- Kagaz Nagar, Telangana
- Chikkaballpur, Karnataka.
Sai Swasthya’s Model
- Both tele-consultation and in-centre services will be offered
- Sai Swasthya App could be used to register online and seek appointment
- The centre will be operating all seven days of the week
- Volunteering healthcare professionals will be offering their services
- Nodal hospitals will be functional for blood sample testing
Mobile Hospital Services
Sri Sathya Sai Aarogya Vahini
Sri Sathya Sai Aarogya Vahini commenced its journey in the year 2015 with an aim to reach out to the most inaccessible remotest corners of the country with fabricated Mobile Clinics.
In alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals on health and nutrition, and from the National and International Health Policies, the Aarogya Vahini Programme primarily focusses on preventive primary healthcare. It covers the entire spectrum of healthcare as given below, in the States of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Assam.
- Collaborative associations in connecting and linking tertiary healthcare facilities for the screened patients
- Care Continuum through periodic follow-ups of patients who underwent surgery, with end-to-end hand-holding and logistic support
- Monitoring chronic patients
- Community participation through awareness and skill upgradation
- Investigative and pharmacy support
- Addressing malnutrition by providing morning breakfast to school-going children
- Responsive participation and supportive action towards natural calamities and pandemic outbreaks
Impact of Mobile Hospital Services in Rural India
