Fwd: Video : Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Hospital Bokaro India

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From: Ananda Devapriya <anandadevapr...@mac.com>

Date: Apr 26, 2:06 pm

Subject: Video : Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Hospital Bokaro India

To: krishna.marga

Namaskar all!This past winter, while in India I visited the Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Clinic in Bokaro just on my way to Ananda Nagar. I was very much inspired and impressed by the project as it offers a very positive example of doing progressive, concrete service according to the needs of the local population by applying Baba's philosophy and putting it into action. As I had my video equipment with me, I offered to make a short video of the project, which I have just finished editing, and uploaded to a website for easy viewing and circulation .

Baba gave a model of holistic medical centers where a team of doctors from different medical disciplines work together to find the most suitable combination of therapy for the particular patient's needs. Ever practical, Baba says that the "best medicine is that which cures the patient." and he recognized the value of different approaches according to the situation. As a model of rural medical service, a multitherapy center has the advantage of offering very high-quality medical care, but at a more affordable cost - as disciplines such as acupuncture and homeopathy are relatively much less expensive and much more efficient in healing than western medicine, which is so reliant on expensive pharmaceuticals.

I was particularly impressed with the community outreach program. As Baba says: "Know your area, Identify the Problems, Serve the People". Many of our current projects in AM are done out of routine - schools, homes, MUs, without really going through a process of evaluating what services are needed in our local area, and how we can best serve the people by applying our Neo-humanist philosophy and Prout models to those problems. We also have few examples of projects that really have us interact with the wider community, and often work in relative isolation from our communities. But this project is one of the very good models that we have of truly serving the needs of a local population in a very thoughtful way. The clinic identified malnutrition and lack of hygiene awareness as major contributing factors to the majority of diseases that they treat at the clinic. Besides just treating the diseases, a prevention program was designed through village education programs. Dada Devashuddhananda, the project coordinator, created lively theatrical video with music, dance, and drama about malnutrition and how to prevent it by incorporating more greens and vegetables into the daily diet (also by demonstrating the use of herbs and plants that grow wild and therefore are free or very cheap for villagers to use). The video education project is very successful and entertaining - the villagers love it! He also organizes teams to go to the surrounding villages and demonstrate well-cleaning and do wall-writing with reminders about hygiene.

Here is a link to the project website with recent newsletters:http://www.rural-health-india.org/

Here is a link to the video:http://www.vimeo.com/942455

I hope that you enjoy this video and that it can inspire more such progressive development work. I look forward to the day when we focus our discussions on how to creatively apply Baba's philosophy in ways that solve real problems in the world and serve suffering humanity in intelligent and inspiring ways.

In His Love

A. Devapriya

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