Charitable Activities
The centre was started to help the under privileged. Our centre run's a free OPD. Till June 2008, this facility was only made available every Sunday and Thursday.
Since June 2008, this facility has now been extended to cover the complete week. Since the begining in 1976, more than 3, 50, 000 people have visited the Centre and have made use of this facility. More and more people from around the world continue to come to the Centre for Authentic Ayurveda.
Every year we conduct a Free chiropractic camp as well, in association with doctor's from America.
Brief Description of the various medical relief activities undertaken by Dharmatma Tatyaji Maharaj Memorial Medical Relief Trust in the last 3 years.
In the past 3 years there has been a steady increase in the number of patients at the OPD run by the trust at Shivpuri. More than 20,000 patients from Akkalkot taluk as also from the surrounding districts of Solapur, Latur, Osmanabad, Bid, Bijapur etc. have availed the facility of free diagnosis. Medicines for 15 days are also dispensed free of cost.- In the past years it was seen that many of the patients coming to Shivpuri were from Solapur city and nearby areas. For the convenience of all such patients an OPD was opened at the premises of Sonamata Kanya Vidyalaya, Railway lines Solapur on 26th November 2003.
- The first activity undertaken at the Solapur OPD was a free checkup camp for Sonamata Kanya Vidyalaya school girls. More than 500 girl students were diagnosed amongst whom some were found to have acute disorders which they were unaware of.
- Following this a similar free checkup camp for students of Shree Shardamata English Medium School & Mangrule High school Akkalkot was organized at the Shivpuri OPD.
- A 'Child Vision Centre' has been started in August 2004 at Shivpuri. The centre is being run by the trust with the joint auspices of H.V. Desai Eye Hospital, Pune and ORBIS international USA. The aim is to provide complete vision care to the school children in the entire Solapur district and to bring awareness amongst the school teachers and parents. A resident doctor visits the schools in the district one by one. The teachers are trained for elementary identification of vision defects in children. The teachers then screen the students and send those with defect to our centre in Shivpuri. Here the students undergo through checkup with modern machinery. Those who need spectacles are given the same free of cost. Thos who need corrective surgery are sent to H V Desai hospital in Pune where the surgery is performed free of cost.
- As part of the trusts objective to popularize Ayurvedic lifestyle, Panchakarma camps are conducted in the Shivpuri centre where along with panchakarma therapies the participants are also taught Yogasanas and Agnihotra and the importance of a balanced lifestyle for maintaining health rather than resorting to medication. A similar camp was also organized in Ossiach, Austria in 2004. A team of doctors and masseurs from the trust conducted basic Ayurvedic therapies and trained the participants in simple yoga exercises. The camp was the first of its kind. The response was very good, organizers from Austria have invited our team for the second time this year.
- With the assistance of the Barshi Nagarparishad a free medical checkup camp was conducted at Barshi on 17th Jan 2004. 370 patients turned out for this camp. They were also given free medicines by the Barshi Nagarparishad Civil Hospital.
- A similar camp was organized during a 3-day public function at Hyderabad.
- 4 residential quarters were constructed at the Trust premises at Shivpuri for the staff.
- We provide free medical checkup to nearly 100 physically handicapped students of two local schools.
- During the last three years 2 blood donation camps and 4 eye checkup camps were conducted by the trust at different places.
- Whenever any such camps are conducted by any other social organization in Akkalkot, we provide free lodging and boarding facility to the needy patients.