Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal

Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kankhal (RKMS) is a branch of Ramakrishna Mission in Kankhal, Haridwar in Uttarakhand. It was established in 1901 by Swami Kalyanananda, one of the direct monastic disciples of Swami Vivekananda. The ashram campus also houses, the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama Hospital, a 190-bed multi-specialty charitable hospital, The hospital serves the treatment needs of poor patients in and around Uttarakhand. Since its inception it has treated more than 10 million patients. From a modest beginning in a rented two room dilapidated building it has grown to be a multi-specialty hospital for treatment of impoverished and needy people, under the supervision of the monks of Ramakrishna Order. The hospital is located in an 18 acres campus, and houses Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Intensive Care Units, Pathological laboratory, Blood bank, Operation Theaters etc. in addition to dairy and agricultural land whose products are used for the consumption of poor in patients. The Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama is under Ramakrishna Mission which also undertakes extensive relief and rehabilitation work in the region, which it did for the recent Uttarakhand flood 2013.

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