Saket Hospitals at Chandimandir and Panchkula are special as staff members working in them have to experience challenges everyday. Each member has to show lot of patience due to nature of job being different from other hospitals.
Chandimandir Hospital of Haryana Saket Council started with four children who were abandoned by their relatives after surgery.
So, “Saket Home” started functioning in this Circuit House in 1957. ‘Saketum’ is a Sanskrit word meaning “Ayodhya Nagri.” Living and spending some time here brings you the feeling of the same.
The number of children in Saket Home kept on increasing. The home was converted into a big hospital with OPD, Indoor, X-ray, Operation Theatre, Physiotherapy and Artificial Limb Centre. The devotion was so much that it became a very popular organisation of Red Cross which later started functioning as Haryana Saket Council, H.E. Governor being the President.
The present strength of inmates in Saket Hospital is 72. The disabilities range from congenital defects to amputations. Most of the handicapped inmates are orphans and destitutes. Some do have distant relatives but their involvement is only formal. This is the only organisation where admission to hostel is on the grounds of need of the child who is neglected. High School aided by Haryana Govt. provides them schooling with other children who are not handicapped. Devoted teachers of school take care that handicapped children do not feel themselves different in society.
The best part in Saket, Chandimandir is that many handicapped staff members working here were earlier students of this hostel. Many have left and settled at various places but keep coming to Saket home back quite often on functions like celebration of festivals (Janmashthmi, Holi) and World Disabled Day i.e. 3rd December. Anybody who lives here, never forgets this home.
‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ These children invent their own methods of becoming supreme. ‘Surjeet Singh (Raja) who has both lower limbs paralysed (can stand with callipers only) uses his upper limbs in a way that he can play table tennis with those top players who do not have handicap. ‘Sunil’ with loss of both upper limbs has developed methods of doing every activity of life with feet including electrical repair, writing, playing music, playing cricket making his leg as bat, balancing on the skates like any skater, cleaning his body and wearing his dress.
These children have made their relatives in Saket. Aya, who serves food is called ‘Bhabi’. The female cook is called ‘Maasi.’ Driver of the van is called ‘Chacha’. The staff too reciprocate with love. The problem of one child is the problem of whole Saket family. No wonder, a staff member is seen weeping over the agony of an inmate of the Institute. Whenever a new inmate is admitted, all the children and staff members are excited to see the new child accepts them as early as possible. EMOTIONS ARE VALUED to the extent that the newborn child of a handicapped inmate ‘Nathu’ is named ‘Saket Kumar’ by the parents of the girl whom he married.
Saket Hospital at Panchkula is another Orthopaedic Institute with a great respect for patients. I am a proud director to have spent three years without having a major complaint from any patient. The Institute which is well known for corrective surgery of the handicapped has a great scope of upgradation. Institute has already registered more than one thousand cases of cerebral palsy (spastic) children. Surgeries like knee and hip replacement are boon for the elderly handicapped. Modern physiotherapy wing has brought the hospital to lime light in the northern India.
The doctors and staff of Saket Hospital, Panchkula get overwhelmed with joy and pride whenever they see a patient walk in the hospital after a long bed confinement at home earlier. These patients on their follow-up visit spend extra time to thank the staff after routine consultation.
I pray that feeling of oneness persists in the Institute for years to come and we see it to be one of the best.
Dr. Jaspal Singh Bhatia
MBBS, MS (ORTHO), HCMS-I
Director
Haryana Saket Council
Chandimandir/Panchkula
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