The people of North Bihar are extremely poor and the literacy level and medical awareness here is abysmally low. Consequently, the incidence of blindness here is very high. The illiterate masses here are easily duped by unscrupulous persons who swindle them under the pretext of offering good medical treatment. Moreover, the awareness level being low, the masses are lax about availing of necessary eye-care and their negligence and laxity cost them dear so often impairing their vision permanently. The extreme poverty of the region also makes it difficult for people here to access good medical treatment on account of ignorance and lack of material means. The Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Eye Hospital, Muzaffarpur thus caters to these poor patients by conduction continuous eye camps at these remote places of North Bihar free of cost as service to Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi whose human incarnations these hapless people are. The remaining patients are charged a nominal amount ranging between INR 500 and INR 1500 per eye operation. Thus, not much revenue is generated this way and the Eye Hospital has to heavily depend on the philanthropy of people and institutions / organizations. For the hospital to run smoothly whereby it can truly serve the poor who are the living embodiments of God, it has to have a steady flow of Government and institutional grants as also public donations. Unfortunately, donations are scarce which makes the maintenance of the hospital and its expansion difficult.
MOBILE MEDICAL VAN :
To access the poor patients and bring adequate medical relief to them a Mobile Medical Van is urgently required within the month of September which will cost an approximate 44 lakh INR ( 44,00,000 INR ) / 4.4 million INR ( 4,400,000 INR ) / 704,000 US dollars. This Medical Van will travel to the remote regions of North Bihar offering much-needed treatment to the poor people and will be used to bring over difficult operational cases to the hospital at Muzaffarpur. The project is being undertaken entirely with the objective of bringing relief to the poor free of cost in the spirit of the Ramakrishna Order of ' Service to humanity beholding it as the visible manifestation of godhead '. The urgency of purchase of the Medical Van is great considering the plight of the people here in North Bihar.
APPEAL :
Understanding this to be the situation we fervently urge devotees, friends and large-hearted individuals and institutions / organizations to come forward and make a contribution to the hospital's PURCHASE OF MOBILE MEDICAL VAN PROJECT and bring to fruition our objective of eradicating blindness from North Bihar which is so prevalent now.
With namaskar and prayers to Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda for your well-being,
Yours faithfully,
Sugata Bose.
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