Project summary

The Gwalior Childrens Hospital has been set up and registered as a charitable trust to establish desperately needed medical and educational services with aim to help and provide for poor, needy, destitute and disabled children in India to start with in Gwalior and Chambal region, one of the most deprived areas in central India. This work is being carried out in three parts as follows:-

1. Gwalior Children's Hospital.
The aim is to build a 100 bed hospital, with all facilities, for the provision of free medical care for the poor and underprivileged, at a cost of £1 million. Gwalior childrens hospital, general hospital and eye centre with consultation and treatment facilities in all specialities, with 24 hours emergency care, operating theatre and 40 beds for indoor services exists providing services for last three years, but we need to expand these services with addition of more facilities and beds as hospital for women and aged population.

Gwalior Hospital Reception

2. Gwalior Mobile Hospital (All Disciplines).
To establish a mobile hospital i.e. "a real hospital on wheels", with X-ray, Ultrasound, laboratory, audiovisual and Operating theatre facilities to provide basic essential medical services and health education at the door steps for poor people in slums, rural and remote areas with its base in Gwalior as essentialy needed. The cost of this project is £500K. So far we are providing such services through rural health centres, subcentres and by way of organising fortnightly specialised medical camps. Volunteer experts from both the U.K. and U.S.A. have visited India under this programme offering advice and expertise to locally recruited staff.

3. School, Orphanage with Rehabilitation and training Centre for destitute and disabled Children.
At a cost of £500K. with aim to make these children independent and lead a life with self esteem. For lack of funds we have not been able to undertake this work yet, though we have adopted 981 children in various orphanages and schools in slum areas, schools for blind, deaf and dumb children have been adopted and are provided all health care needs through our hospital services. Sunrise international school has been initiated as a school for special needs in July 2001 with aim to complete this part of our work. We are proposing to start few scholarships to help poor students to complete their education.

On completion of the above we would look to expanding the hospital to cover 200 beds. Once this has been completed the Trust would like to continue this work in other areas in India, where these may be most needed.