Heartfulness Institute & Shri Ram Chandra Mission in Partnership with CIPACA Sets Up an Exclusive 50-bed Covid-Care Centre in Chennai
- The 24×7 care unit will offer infrastructure , use of equipment , accommodation and food is provided free to the patients by Heartfulness and medication and healthcare services will be provided at minimum costs by the professional medical unit management
Chennai 26th May 2021: Heartfulness Institute & Shri Ram Chandra Mission, today launched a Covid-Care cen tre offering quality healthcare services to the underprivileged and those who need it, in partnership with CIPA CA. The centre is being launched at the Heartfulness Institute& Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Babuji Memorial As hram, in Manapakkam, Chennai. The covid-care centre is aimed towards aiding the efforts of the Tamil Nadu Go vernment in providing quality and timely access to healthcare services to its citizens. This initiative is organised under larger Heartfulness Covid Care Service initiative (covidcare@heartfulness.org)
This covid care centre was inaugurated by Thiru. Udhayanidhi Stalin,MLA on May 26, 2021. Thiru. Linguswamy, Film Director and Heartfulness Trainer and Dr. Raja Amarnath, MD-CIPACA, spoke about the salient features of the new facility. While Tamil film personality Keerti Suresh was also present at the occasion. This facility will become operational from May 27, 2021.
The covid-care facility will manage mild and moderate cases and provide all quarantine facilities. Of the 50 beds in the care unit, 10 beds will provide for oxygen support. The initiative is managed in conjunction with local me dical authorities and CIPACA, leading ICU provider in the country, who will manage day-to-day operations of the covid care unit. Plans are also underway to increase the number of beds, if necessary.
Speaking on the launch, Mr. Linguswamy, Director at Heartfulness Institute , said, “Heartfulness is about susta ina ble living. While yoga and meditation can provide immunity boosting benefits, the need-of-the-hour is to support our co mmunity through resources such as masks, food and quarantine facility for the underprivileged. Our covid-care center is a step in this direction. Patients will receive the best of wholistic treatment to aid in the recovery process. ”
The Heartfulness Chennai facility has a 22-acre green environment with basic infrastructure such as clean and hygienic surroundings, large hall, food and water, electricity, and accessible toilets. The covid-care unit also has a reception desk, which can be reached through a phone or in-person, to check availability of the beds and make bo okings. The unit will be primarily accepting patients from lower economic strata, who do not have the means to quarantine at home. The facility will also provide healthy catered food to patients and the medical support sta ff. Medical wastes will be hygienically disposed in collaboration with local medical authorities. Those seeking treatment at the covid-care unit will also be offered guidance on holistic lifestyle practices such as Yoga and meditation for faster recovery.
Dr Raja Amarnath, Managing Director & Clinical lead of CIPACA, said “ It’s our honor and privilege to join hands wit h Heartfulness organization to set up this COVID unit facility. Being one the world’s largest spiritual training organiz ati on, at the need of the hour, they have not only extended their support for COVID care, but also want this to be the best facility with no compromise in the service. CIPACA considers this a precious project and shall deploy Pulmonology, Inf ectious diseases, Internal medicine and Critical care teams to back up this COVID unit, which is not the usual case with any other regular COVID quarantine center.”
Established in 2015, CIPACA specializes in providing modern emergency and intensive care at secondary and tertiary hospitals. They operate more than 300 emergency and ICU beds, – the largest number operated by any single organization in the rural India, with more than 300 physicians, 500 nurses, administrative and business development professionals. CIPACA is trained in providing the most efficient and safe and quality health care.
The Heartfulness Institute is also providing other Covid Care services across India, such as free remote cons ultations and a 24×7 covid-care helpline (1-800-121-3492). Thousands of global Heartfulness volunteers, doc tors are assisting in providing and managing covid care services to the community. The Heartfulness Institute has been operating a free medical center at this venue, offering outpatient medical consultation to the local pop ulation, for the past ten years. Several corporates and non-profits have partnered with Heartfulness for this co vid-care centre. NGOs, including Ripples of Change Foundation (ROCF) and local medical authorities are key partners for the initiative. Anyone wishes to get involved in these projects financially or otherwise could contact us at covidcare@heartfulness.org
About CIPACA :
CIPACA, a leading ICU care provider in the country, has been operating ICUs at several Small, medium and big Hospitals as well as teaching hospitals across several states, managing more than 300 ICU beds – the largest nu mber operated by any single organization in the rural sector. Having more than 30,00,000+ hours of experience in Setting up and operating ICUs, CIPACA has been widely recognized for its ‘standardized quality of ICU care’ in Rural hospitals with several accolades at national and international level such as ‘The most innovative healt hca re delivery organization’, ‘COVID Warriors award’ and ‘The most Socially responsible organization of the year’ recognition. With a massive team of 300+ ICU Doctors and 500+ ICU nurses, having treated and saved more than 1,00,000 lives in their ICUs, CIPACA has been recognized as the ‘The best ICU care Provider in Rural India’ at national level.
About Heartfulness Institute:
Heartfulness, is a Raja Yoga system of meditation, which is also known as ‘Sahaj Marg’, or the ‘Natural Path’. It originated at the turn of the twentieth century and was formalized with the founding of the Shri Ram Chandra Mission in 1945 in India. With several million practitioners worldwide, Heartfulness meditation is a set of prac tices for self-development that help us find inner calm and stillness in our fast-paced world. The easily adopted practices are appropriate for people from all walks of life, cultures, religious beliefs and economic status, over the age of fifteen. Ongoing Heartfulness meditation training can be found at thousands of schools and colleges, and over 100,000 professionals are meditating in corporations, non-governmental and government bodies worl dwide. More than 5000 Heartfulness Centres, known as HeartSpots, are supported by many thousands of cert ified volunteer trainers in 160 countries.
