Founded in the year 2012 by a group of young Doctors and some philanthropists, Swami Vivekanand Health Mission Society is continuing its mission of providing high quality health care to mankind. The Society started its journey by establishing their first charitable project in the form of a small dispensary at Dharmawala, a tribal dominated village, situated 40 km from Dehradun, Uttarakhand and bordering the states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The self-belief of the Society to provide quality health care to the deprived, tribal, pilgrims and needy along with strong willed approach led to establishment of more hospitals in phases as well as the up gradation of the small dispensary of Dharmawala to a full-fledged multi-specialty hospital. The Society with its vision and mission as the guiding principles also established charitable hospitals in the Char Dhams of the state of Uttarakhand. These are at Shri Badrinath Dham, Shri Kedarnath Dham and Gangotri Dham and are fully equipped with ICU facilities with staff trained in dealing with the problems of high altitude. The vast number of pilgrims visiting these shrines from all over the world used to suffer because of non-availability of quality health care and the morbidity and mortality at these shrines was worrying, the establishment of Society’s hospital at these Dhams brought down the rates by 90%.
The motive of the Society while establishing hospitals in remote, hilly and far-flung areas, apart from providing high quality health care was also to address other social issues like migration from the hills, border areas challenges and lack of dedicated health care professionals as well as poor infrastructure. Our hospitals are providing employment opportunities to the local populace as well as the availability of skilled manpower in our hospitals have bridged the gap of lack of health facilities which formed one of the major reasons for migration.
Presently, 14 charitable hospitals are being run by the Society, of which 11 are in Uttarakhand, two are in Uttar Pradesh and one is in Delhi.
The Society apart from its charitable hospitals is also involved in other philanthropic activities like conducting community medical camps in remote, hilly and difficult to reach areas (during COVID wave also), education activities, making community self-reliant via Swavalamban Abhiyaan and community health programmes which encompasses five programmes in itself. (Anaemia Prevention, Control and Treatment Programme, Breast and Cervical Cancer Awareness and Screening Programme, Menstrual Hygiene Programme, Community Mental Health Programme and Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness, Prevention and Treatment Programme).
The ‘Nar Sewa Narayan Sewa’ motto of the Society has been and will always be the essence of all our endeavours to serve humanity.
Mission
“To worship the motherland by serving the neglected, exploited brethren and pilgrims in the backward, rural, hilly and tribal areas rendering them with medical, education and other social aids”.
Vision
“Complete development of the tribes, poor, socially deprived and other backward people.
History
Uttarakhand (UK) was formed in year 2000 by bifurcating the state of Uttar Pradesh. The state has a total population of around 11 million and it has mainly hilly terrain. The state is also known as “Devbhoomi” as our main pilgrimages – Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath are situated here. Millions of devotees from all over the world visit these shrines every year. Majority of the local population reside in small villages en route to these shrines and dependent on the Yatra season for their livelihood. State also has a tribal population of approximately 3.5 lakhs. Of late the State has witnessed migration from the hills to the plains due to lack of proper education, health and other basic infrastructure facilities as well as dearth of employment opportunities.
Keeping in view of the rising morbidity and mortality of pilgrims visiting the Chardham, mainly at Shri Badrinath, Shri Kedarnath and Gangotri because of high altitude and extreme weather conditions, the SVHM society started critical care hospitals at Shri Badrinath Dham, Shri Kedarnath Dham and Gangotri Dham itself.
Currently, the Society is running fourteen charitable hospitals in the remote and hilly areas of Uttarakhand, remote areas of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. These fourteen hospitals are at:
- Dharmawala (Shimla by pass road, Dehradun)
- Ujeli (Gangotri Marg, Uttarkashi)
- Narayankoti (Kedarnath Marg, Rudraprayag)
- Barkot (Yamunotri Marg, Uttarkashi)
- Pipalkoti (Badrinath Marg, Chamoli)
- Shri Badrinath Dham
- Petshal (Jageshwar Dham Marg, Almora)
- Shri Kedarnath Dham
- Haridwar
- Gangotri Dham
- Dumet (Sadhana Kendra Ashram, Dehradun)
- Delhi (Karol Bagh)
- Firozabad
- Vrindavan
