Draft:Guru Nanak Mission Hospital Dhahan-Kaleran
IntroductionEdit
Guru Nanak Mission Hospital Dhahan-Kaleran opened on April 17, 1984. It is named after Guru Nanak, an Indian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet considered to be the founder of Sikhism.
Located in the village of Dhahan-Kaleran, the hospital is managed by Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Educational Trust, founded by Budh Singh Dhahan, and registered on February 6, 1981, under the Societies Registration Act in India.
The hospital is one of the only multidisciplinary hospitals among rural villages of the Nawanshahr district, a sub district of the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar District in Punjab.
It also serves as a teaching hospital for adjacent nursing and paramedical colleges (Guru Nanak College of Nursing and Guru Nanak Paramedical College). The colleges are also run by Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Educational Trust. The hospital sits to the west of Banga. It is accessible via the Phagwara-Mohali expressway connecting Phagwara and Nawanshahr.
CampusEdit
Guru Nanak Mission Hospital Dhahan-Kaleran sits on 30.5 acres of land which were donated by the Dhahan and Kaleran villages to Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Educational Trust circa 1980. It is surrounded by multi-use buildings on a private, gated campus maintained by Guru Nanak Mission Medical and Educational Trust. Nearby amenities include Punjab and Sind Bank, a parking lot, playground and Gurdwara.
DepartmentsEdit
The hospital currently provides medical services through the departments of:
- Emergency care
- Out-patient clinic
- Intensive care unit (ICU)
- General surgery
- Internal Medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Nephrology
- Orthopedics
- Dentistry
- Pediatrics
- Obstetrics and gynaecology (OB/GYN)
- Otolaryngology (ENT)
- Neurosurgery
- Physiotherapy
- Radiology
- Pathology
- Dietetics
- Dermatology
- Bariatrics
The hospital is equipped with one life support ambulance, one critical care ambulance and two additional, small ambulances.
FacilitiesEdit
Guru Nanak Mission Hospital Dhahan-Kaleran currently maintains patient-service facilities including:
- Food services
- Private and semi-private rooms
- Pharmacy
- Reception area
- Parking lot
Housing was built on its campus, in the same year the hospital opened, to attract doctors to work in the rural area.
HistoryEdit
Guru Nanak Mission Hospital Dhahan-Kaleran began as the vision of Budh Singh Dhahan – a social activist in Punjab who spent 19 years living in Canada. On April 17, 1984, it opened as a 40-bed hospital. The hospital grew its capacity to 200 beds between 1996 – 2006. On average, about 100 beds are used daily.
Between 1992 – 2018, the hospital ran the 16-bed, Red Cross De-Addiction & Rehabilitation Centre. It offered in-residence substance abuse rehabilitation via a 30-day program.
Beginning in 1992, the hospital formed strong ties to Canada via Canada India Education Society (CIES), a charity founded by the son of Budh Singh Dhahan, Barjinder (Barj) Singh Dhahan. CIES has been a primary funder of the charitable activities of the hospital, including healthcare outreach to nearby villages.
Between 2001 - 2005, CIES collaborated with Guru Nanak Mission Hospital Dhahan-Kaleran to conduct the Building Capacity for Primary Health Care in Rural Punjab project, which received $400,000 in funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), as well as volunteerism from the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Nursing.
In 2007, the hospital opened a trauma care centre. In 2018, it was named the Budh Singh Dhahan Trauma Centre, after its founder.
Between 2019 and 2021, over 140,000 patients were treated at the hospital.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the hospital was one of the only charitable hospitals in the region to stay open and to set up a special isolation unit to care for patients.