Serve All | Sivananda Free Rural Medical Hospital, Madurai

Inauguration of the Sivananda Free Rural Medical Hospital on August 24, 2023. The Hospital is within the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Meenakshi Ashram, Saramthangi Village.
Local medical facilities in the villages are in very basic form. A day travelling to the city was often not feasible as the local people rely heavily on daily wages and couldn't afford to spare a day to travel to the large city to avail proper treatment facilities.
The idea of providing free medical facilities for locals surrounding the
Meenakshi Ashram was a dream. To have a local medical clinic would
be a great blessing. The dream was conceived by a chance meeting with Mr. Vishnu Wallani from Toronto who expressed his interest to be part of the endeavour by donating for the initiation of Sivananda Free Rural Medical Clinic, with an ambulance service to transport villagers to and from the clinic.
We began the clinic in 2015 in association with Vikram Multispeciality Hospitals in Madurai, that was well received by everyone. On observing the medical needs of people at close quarters we also realized the need to provide them more services to raise their health and sanitisation standards. Though the agreed funding stopped after two years, Madurai Ashram and other locations in the Sivananda Organization continued to provide financial assistance to continue the medical camps, under the guidance of Acharya Prahlada ji.
In 2020, Prahlada ji presented the idea of building a free hospital within the Meenakshi Ashram premises to one of his students from Toronto, Mr Mazur. In 2021, Mr Mazur donated funds for the
construction, plus 2 years support for the functioning of the hospital.
What started off as a clinic with regular camps has today grown into a permanent hospital building where around 40 neighbouring villages can easily receive cure for their ailments, completely free of cost. The goal was to provide free medical services for around 2000 villagers on a weekly
basis.
By the grace of Master Swami Sivanandaji and our Guru Swami Vishnudevanandaji we wish to you inform you that the project is completed. On August 24, 2023 the hard work of so many people
directly and indirectly involved in building and setting up the Sivananda Free Rural Medical Hospital right next to our Meenakshi Ashram has paid off fruitfully. Helmed by Prahlada ji, our Indian Trustees also arrived to witness the inauguration by the honourable district collector of Madurai, Smt. Sangeeta ji. We also had a group of Sadhana Mandalam students along with Swami Janardhanananda ji and Suresh ji joining us to grace the occasion.
The Collector, in her inspirational speech, spoke about how yoga teaches holistic well being and that the free services of our hospital would be a welcome augmentation to good health. Everyone lauded the efforts to carry forward the teachings of our Swamiji whose main mission was to bring about happiness through health and wellness.
The entire event was covered by various Madurai newspapers as this endeavour is one of its kind in Saramthangi Village.
Close to 400 people attended the function and food was served to all by the Ashram, with the help of one of our students doing the catering. We would like to extend our special thanks to Dr.
Narayanaswami and his staff for supporting this noble venture since its inception. Much appreciation goes to the generous Mazur family who are the reason this humanitarian cause came to life. Special thanks to our Acharya Prahlada ji for his diligence and motivation on this project.
With the teachings of our Master Swami Sivananda ji and Guru Swami Vishnudevananda ji, Yoga trains us to be compassionate and helpful.
We all pray to our Master and Swami ji to guide us in our attempt to serve humanity, by alleviating the physical miseries of life.
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