Only the bold dare to do things differently setting examples of great personal sacrifice and achieving success by touching the lives of the neglected. A luminary of the medical profession, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, revered as the father of modern medicine, chose to serve the people of the neglected region of Uttar Pradesh’s Purvanchal region. Healthcare was to say rudimentary until Sharda Narayan Hospital was established 20 years ago by the unassuming doctor, who lived-up to the Hippocratic Oath, in letter and spirit.
-BY DINESH ANAND
Purvanchal was considered a back of the beyond region where even daily existence was a challenge. To say that medical facility was rudimentary wouldn’t be an understatement. It was in fact dismal, and doctors shied away from going to work or set up hospitals in the region. As a consequence the public, mostly poor, had to fend for themselves or die. It was under such pathetic conditions that Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh opened the multi-speciality Sharda Narayan Hospital in Mau, which has a longstanding credential of committed service to humankind spanning over two decades.
Sharda Narayan Hospital came has a ray of hope and consolation for the underprivileged rural folks of being provided the best medical facilities along with world- class healthcare. Under the leadership of Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, the hospital flourished in its capabilities, and spectrum of specialities which included Gynaecology, Cancer, Cardiac, Orthopaedics, Neuro and Eye diseases, by providing medical services of high benchmark. The setting up departments like ICU, NICU, CCU, Emergency, Blood Bank with Plasma facility, State-of-the-Art Cath lab, Indira IVF and Test Tube Baby Centre, Corona Ward, OT, ultrasound, dialysis, pathology, X-ray, telemedicine etc., all under one roof, eased the patients, from all hassle besides strengthening its outcomes and credibility of Sharda Narayan Hospital as the originator of modern medicine in Mau district guided by excellence and philanthropy at its core.
Sharda Narayan Hospital is the only centre in the district that provides oxygen facility to every bed by the oxygen plant installed on its premises. “For the last 20 years, we have been regularly running awareness campaigns for the local public through medical seminars, webinars and free medical camps. Apart from adopting children suffering from incurable diseases like Thalassemia and providing them free blood, we are always conscious about their overall health security. Sharda Narayan Hospital has been running free health camps and medicine distribution programs regularly in the past years in the Azamgarh division of Purvanchal,” shared the legendary Dr Singh.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh
Keeping in mind the medical needs of the deprived population of the backward region, the hospital organizes regular camps for various health related issues, including Hypertension, Diabetes, Cancer Awareness, Anaemia, Asthma, Brain Stroke, Heart Attack Awareness, Eye Disease, Infant and Child Disease, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics etc. As part of social awareness and responsibility, the hospital so far has organised more than 4200 free medical camps and approximately seven lakh people have benefitted from distribution of free medicines. Besides, 23 children suffering from Thalassemia have been adopted by the hospital for providing them with complete health security, including blood. Per month, 40 units of blood is provided free of cost to thalassemia patients. Simultaneously, through the “Know Your Blood Pressure and Sugar Level” campaign, More than 5 lakh in BP Sugar Jano Abhiyan, 1.5 lakh people have been examined and 750 medical workshops have been organized with doctors from Mau, Azamgarh, Ballia and Ghazipur districts.
Under the direction of renowned Infertility specialist and Gynecologist Dr. Ekika Singh, the first Indira IVF Center of the state and the third of the country was established in the year 2013. Under the direction of Dr. Ekika Singh and the skilled supervision of embryologist Dr. Madhulika Singh, in the last 10 years, more than 2800 women from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kolkata & Delhi along with countries like Nepal, Thailand and Mauritius got the happiness of motherhood.
On the other hand, under the able leadership of emergency medicine specialist Dr. Sujit Singh, lakhs of patients have got new life in Sharda Narayan Hospital. Institute Director Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh says that - “The one who connects himself with the pain of others is a real person in the true sense. Leaving aside a secure future in a metropolis like Delhi, establishing a modern hospital in a very backward medical area, Mau, and providing a world-class medical system provides self-satisfaction. Jananayak Chandrashekhar Hospital and Cancer Institute, established in the memory of former Prime Minister Jananayak Chandrashekhar in Ballia, is also being operated by Sharda Narayan Welfare Trust. High level medical care is being provided to the rural poor of Uttar Pradesh”
