ITANAGAR July 08: The allegations raised against Ramakrishna Mission Hospital are absolutely baseless and false said R K Mission Hospital secretary Swami Viswathananda.
Since its inception in the year 1979 it has been serving the people of Arunachal Pradesh selflessly, he said and added that huge amount of money is spent in giving free and concessionary services at every level. The records of such services are maintained and it can be verified at any time, he further said.
At the time of establishing the hospital the Mission was promised that it will get a 100% reimbursement of the expenses for its services from the state government in the form of grant-in-aid.
Down the years, the grant-in-aid petered to a mere 34%. In the absence of donations and financial support from other sources which service organizations like R K Mission get in other states of the country, it was decided by the managing committee of the hospital that partial charges should be levied on the services.
This was implemented but not disregarding the poor section of the population. Many of its services still remain absolutely free of any charges, the secretary said.
In 2008, when the prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh visited the state, he appreciated the selfless services of the Mission rendered to the people of the state in a public meeting and announced a corpus fund of Rs 50 crores to the hospital.
This has created a lot of confusion in the mind of the general public. He clarified that corpus fund was created in lieu of the annual grant that the Mission received from the state government.
MoU has been signed between the state government and R K Mission that hospital will run its services from the interest that is earned from the capital amount and the annual grant in aid will be stopped from the financial year 2009-2010.
The said funds will start accruing interest only from the month of August of the current financial year. Till date we not utilized a single paisa from the fund, he further added. The hospital is run by a philanthropic organization. The salaries paid to the staff are commensurate with the financial aid it was getting from the state government. Even with this constraint, the salaries have been increased to a great extent from this financial year.
We can at no time match the government’s pay scales. In spite of all odds and difficulties, the hospital is delivering its services at less cost then any other setup of this size, it said.
The money that has been spent on the hospital in all these years by the state and central governments has been well spent because the hospital has grown in its capacity and size, the secretary informed.
He further urged the public who are receiving the benefits of the hospital’s services not to be carried away by such negative criticisms done with deliberate objectives of bringing bad name to the hospital, its staffs and its cause.
Meanwhile the Nyishi Indigenous Faith and Cultural Society (NIFCS) and Arunachal Vikas Parishad (AVP) vehemently condemned the baseless allegations put forward by Arunachal Tribal Union against R K Mission Hospital without providing any authentic evidences in support of their allegations.
It is very unfortunate that the union demanded the handing over of R K Mission hospital to the government without examining the relentless and selfless services rendered by the institution for many years to the people of this state.
The services of R K Mission hospital is not restricted to the hospital premises alone but it has been conducting health camps in the remotest places of the state from time to time.
Such allegation is unfortunate and uncalled for, the organisations stated.
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