Sri Sathya Sai Mobile Hospital is a novel outreach programme that was started in April 2006. The hospital has the noble mission of taking healthcare to the rural doorstep. Every month, for twelve days, the mobile clinic with its team of doctors visits a village every day, offering diagnostic services and even performing minor surgeries and dental procedures. Where, urgent medical attention is necessary, the patients are referred to local Sri Sathya Sai hospitals for further treatment.
The hospital, a Siemens Sanjeevani, is equipped with diagnostic services including, X-ray, ECG, 2-D Echo, Ultrasound and Pathology. Offering their services free and in a humanitarian spirit each month is a team of 30 doctors, taken from a panel of 600 doctors ranging from professors to junior physicians and including private practitioners. The emphasis is on holistic healing over and above therapeutics.
The hospital offers medical services in the following departments:
- General Medicine
- ENT
- Ophthalmology
- Dental medicine
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Orthopaedics
- Paediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Dermatology
In addition it also Creates basic awareness on Preventive medicine through eductional and video programs.