Aims and Objectives
Activities
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The Ladies Welfare Society (LWS) at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), formed 25 years ago, is a not-for-profit organisation. It is dedicated to provide social assistance and health services to the low socio-economic strata of society, within or outside SGRH. It is well managed by like minded people, trying to play a role in filling the critical gaps that create a void in a poor man's life and health.

The ladies welfare society (LWS) aims at providing

1. Medical facilities to the poor patients, particularly those who are residing in remote and far flung areas who cannot access treatment facilities or afford it.
2. Help the poor patients by providing free medicines, paying for their investigation or any surgical help required by them.
3. Help chronic patients suffering from tuberculosis with free medicines and take responsibility of their compliance.
4. Facilitate cataract surgeries for the poor and provide funds for the same.
5. Under family welfare schemes, motivate men and women to undergo sterilisation at no cost and to further motivate them by giving financial help.
6. To provide help with nutrition to undernourished children and adults.
7. To create and incur expenses for educational scholarships, Vocational Training Centre and health care centres in slums and villages
8. To work for uplifting status of the women in the society. To work against dowry system and to raise voice against the victimisation of girl/women by anybody in the society
9. To help and generate training programme for self employment of women and educated unemployed people.
10. To work for tree plantation / pollution control and hold sanitation drive.
11. To provide help / shelter / facilities for old people, children and disabled people.
12. To work for uplifting poor people, for their all round development.
13. To provide help to people suffering from natural calamities such as fire, flood, Earthquakes, accidents, etc.
14. To provide free legal advice to poor people.
15. Another important aim is to create an awareness among the masses about health and hygiene. In this regard, arrange lectures / stage shows in various educational institutions on important health topics like AIDS, T.B., Hepatitis, etc.
16. To establish any welfare project and to assist, affiliate and establish connections with other institutions having similar objects and/or help them in providing aid to the needy.
17. To incur expenses for educational scholarships, vocational training centres and health care centres.
18. To provide for food, medicine, clothing, financial assistance and other needs to the poor andneedy.
19. To raise funds through events, donation or other means and invest or incur expenditure in such a manner so as to promote the attainment of aims and objectives of the society.
20. To do such other work which may be for the general welfare of the people.

Activities

• Relief work for Bawana fire victims

A large number of poor patients avail our assistance both in OPD's and as in-patients. They are given free medication, diagnostic as well as surgical facilities. Poor patients are being helped with expensive investigations and medicines on a regular basis. Last year, eight very poor patients received help with their major surgeries, including 3 patients who underwent heart operations.

We play a role in implementing government programmes like T.B. eradication, family planning and nutritional programmes for the poor. Besides this we give aid for education to the deserving poor.

Even though T.B. eradication has been on the government agenda for years, yet India has the dubious distinction of having a third of the world's T.B. patients. Unfortunately, this poor man's disease has an expensive cure, and recovery time is 6-9 months. At present we have more than 300 patients taking free medicines from us under our T.B. eradication programme. Medicines are distributed every Tuesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. These expensive anti-tubercular drugs are distributed, free of charge till the patient recovers. We are also facilitating the DOTS programme in Bawana and presently, we have about 50 T.B. patients taking ration and protein supplements from us.

We have also started facilitating Cataract Surgeries in Bawana. So far 20 patients have been operated and about 50 people with eyesight problem have been provided with spectacles.

Realizing the importance of education for social upliftment, scholarships to deserving students are being given so they may go ahead for higher education without having to dropout for want of funds. Presently we are taking care of education of 100 students. Any poor student with a will to study further can approach us, without any hesitation for assistance.

We are also working on the very important area of family planning. We take immense pride in our participation in this national programme. Our volunteers reach out to slums and offer incentives for undergoing sterilisation. We manage to undertake over 50 cases every month and the number is increasing by the day.

In our desire to reach those who cannot reach us, we have taken a determined step forward to aid our rural brethren under our community out-reach programme. We have adopted Bawana, a resettlement colony. There are about 9000 hutments here, and the residents are slum dwellers of Yamuna Pushtha who have been relocated here. With these small hutments all over the place, the area looks like any other slum, rather than a resettlement colony.

We are organising regular medical camps here, where gynecologist, ophthalmologist, paediatricians and physicians are providing free medical consultation. In this year, we were able to provide medical services to over 4500 patients and were able to give all of them free medications as well. About 400 children were immunised. 100 Kg of ration was distributed and many clothes and blankets were given to the poor and needy.

We are also holding regular medical camp in Bihari Basti in Todapur. This year we were able to give free medical consultancy and free medicines to about 1400 patients and over 100 children were also immunised.

Under our nutritional programme we distribute food and grains to those without means or resources in the slums. Protein supplements are provided to poor children under our integrated child welfare scheme. Clothes and blankets are also provided to the poorest of poor. This welfare programme has been very well received by the villagers. We also have a rehabilitation programme for the handicapped and disabled.

A major fire broke out in a J.J. colony in Kidwai Nagar in the month of January 2005 and in Bawana in the month of December 2005. Over 7000 Jhuggis got destroyed. Ladies Welfare Society of SGRH rose to the occasion and extended its helping hand. . A team was sent to the effected area to assess the situation and the same night, cooked food was served to hundreds of the fire victims. Ration, Utensils, Blankets and clothes were also distributed to all the victims.

To empower the women of Bawana, a vocational training centre (stiching unit) was opened in the month of August 2005. It conducts a six-month course and trains a total of 60 women per session. At the end of the session they undergo an exam conducted by NOS (National Open School). All those who clear the exam are eligible to get a good government job. We are in the process of opening a computer training centre.

We are also running a gift shop within the hospital complex. All proceeds from this shop go towards the treatment of poor and destitute.

Nevertheless, we do wish to reach out to more people and do much more than our current programmes and improve our systems. For this we need more funds, volunteers and support of the medical fraternity and others. With the support of SGRH, and various charitable organisations, we will evolve and improve strategy to reach out to more deserving and needy people.

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