Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Hospital, Vrindavan - Vrindavan

GRADUAL EXPANSION

Since a modest beginning, the hospital has gradually grown up to its present stature of a 320-bed Multi-Specialty Charitable Hospital serving the needs of a large indigenous public and pilgrims as well as the people of neighbouring districts, without any distinction of caste, creed or religion.

Today, the hospital has, among others, departments of General Medicine, General & Laparoscopic Surgery, Urology, Neuro-surgery, Ophthalmology, Dentistry, Paediatrics, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Orthopaedics, Dermatology, Physiotherapy and alternative medicines like Homoeopathy, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Acupuncture, etc. The hospital also has a Modular Operation Theatre complex with six operation theatres, CathLab, 5-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit, 5-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit, 10-bed Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit, Blood Bank, Digital X-Ray, fully-automized Pathology, Ultrasonography, 32-slice CT Scanner, and 10-beded haemodialysis Unit. The beginning of third millennium brought extensive expansion and development works in the Sevashrama.The annual intake for the Nursing School was raised to 30 from 20. To name a few more developments – Neuro-Surgery, Urology, Oncology, Laparoscopic Surgery; Automatic laundry unit; fully-atomized Pathological Laboratory and Eye Department with state-of-the-art machines and Ultrasound Department, CT Scan, Endoscopy, Digital X-Ray,

Mammography, full-fledged Physiotherapy Unit; extensive renovation & repair of hospital buildings; provision of supply of sweet water after processing through Filtration plant establishment of Blood bank; newly built Modular Operation Theatre complex with six operation theatres; separate eye wards and 5-bed SICU, 3-bed MICU, 9-bed NICU, 10-bed Dialysis Unit there by again increasing the bed capacity of the hospital to 178. Visits by specialist doctors, detection of cancer, psychiatric & tuberculosis treatment and provision of various vaccines and polio doses to the newborn babies are also arranged on a regular basis. Medical books have been made available for medical staff. A state-of-the-art Swami Vivekananda Auditorium was th constructed in 2013 to commemorate the 150 Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, with 364 seats and central air-conditioning system serves as the dais to conduct educational, spiritual & cultural programmes along with seminars. During the year 2016, a spacious Nurses’ Hostel was constructed to accommodate the increased number of students while providing space for Shrine, Study Room, Recreation Room and well-furnished dining hall and kitchen. The old and dilapidated Private Wardwas demolished and a magnificent two-storied new Private Ward was built, thus raising the bed strength of the Hospital to the present 240. New ICU was also set-up in the new Private Ward with 10- beds while providing all the modern facilities along with state-of-the-art equipment and furniture.A state-of-the-art CathLab started functioning to provide interventional services in Cardiology like angiography and angioplasty. Due to the increased number of cancer patients in the hospital, the cancer services have been formally organized into ‘Ramakrishna Mission – Bani Mittra Cancer Centre’. The Cancer Centre provides advanced surgical treatment in cancer like oncoplasty, reconstruction, free flap etc. while providing chemotherapy too. The Cancer Centre is proposed to expand its activities with the installation of Radiotherapy Unit and medical oncology in the near future.A separate Cancer Ward for specialized treatment is also under construction. 

In 2019 New Sarada Block was inaugurated by Honourable President of India Sri Ramnath Kovind in the presence of honourable Governor of Uttarpradesh Smt. Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister of Uttarpradesh Yogi Adityanathji Maharaj. This new block added of new Words, Two Moduler OT, 1.5 Tesla MRI unit to the Hospital and bed capacity increases to 320 beds. 

Many dignitaries have visited the Sevashrama since its humble beginning like – Mahatma Gandhi (visited the Sevashrama twice), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Sri Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Sri Madan Mohan Malaviya, Sri Govindvallabh Pant and Sri V V Giri. The Honourable Governor, Sri Vishnu Kant Sastri and the then Honourable Health Minister of Uttar Pradesh, along with the thenHonourable Defence Minister Sri Pranab Mukherjee from the Government of India visited the Sevashrama during 2005-06.

The Hon’ble Governor of Tripura Sri Tathagata Roy, Hon’ble Governor of UP Sri Ram Naik, Hon’ble Governor of Bihar Sri Ramnath Kovind, Hon’ble Minister for Health of Govt. of India Sri Sudeep Bandyopadhyay, Hon’ble MP of Mathura Smt. Hema Malini and Hon’ble Minister for Power of Govt. of Uttar Pradesh Sri Srikant Sharma include this list. The Charitable Hospital continues to provide free medical services to the poor, with the financial support received from noble, kind hearted and benevolent persons and organizations.