ઉનાળાની બળબળતી બપોરે એક ભીખારી જેવો માણસ બજારમાં આમતેમ આંટા મારી રહ્યો હતો એને ખુબ જ તરસ લાગી હતી અને એ પાણી શોધી રહ્યો હતો પરંતું તાપ એટલો બધો હતો કે બધા જ દુકાનદારો પોતાની દુકાન બંધ કરીને જતા રહ્યા હતા.
તરસથી વ્યાકુળ થયેલા પેલા માણસની નજર છેવાડાની એક દુકાન પર ગઇ. એ દુકાન ખુલ્લી હતી પેલો માણસ ઝડપથી એ દુકાન સુધી પહોંચ્યો ત્યાં જઇને જોયુ તો દુકાનમાં બીજુ કોઇ તો નહોતું પરંતું શેઠ થડા પર બેઠા-બેઠા હિસાબ કરતા હતા.
ભીખારી જેવા આ માણસે પેલા શેઠને કહ્યુ , " શેઠ બહું તરસ લાગી છે થોડું પાણી પાશો ? " શેઠે કહ્યુ , " માણસ બહાર ગયો છે થોડી વાર ઉભો રહે." પેલો ભીખારી ત્યાં જ ઉભો રહ્યો 10 મિનિટ જેવો સમય થયો એટલે ભીખારી એ ફરીથી કહ્યુ કે," શેઠ થોડું પાણી આપોને ગળું સુકાય છે.". પેલા શેઠે કહ્યુ કે હજુ માણસ નથી આવ્યો આવે એટલે તને પાણી આપે. વળી થોડો સમય પસાર થયો એટલે ફરી પેલા ભીખારીએ કહ્યુ ," શેઠ એક પ્યાલો જ પાણી આપોને .....જીવ જાય છે હવે તો આ તરસને કારણે." શેઠે ખીજાઇને કહ્યુ , " એલા તને કેટલી વાર કહેવું કે માણસ નથી એ આવે એટલે તને પાણી પાશે."
ભીખારીએ શેઠની સામે જોઇને એટલું જ કહ્યુ ..............
" શેઠ બસ થોડીવાર માટે તમે જ માણસ બની જાવ ને..........."
સાલુ આપણું પણ આ શેઠ જેવું જ છે ! ડોકટર , વકીલ , એંજીનિયર , અધિકારી , કર્મચારી, ખેડુંત , ઉધોગપતિ તો રોજ હોઇએ છીએ ક્યારેક ક્યારેક માણસ પણ બની જોઇએ !!!!!!!!!!
— Latest Testimonials —
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Dr Debashish Gupta | NPO, Blood safety, NACO , India.
Excellent Work!. It was our privilege to have such renowned and inspiring personalities in our hospital time to time... We have always got inspiration and strength by the blessings and suggestions from
our all honorable guests! The moments shared with all of them have made us to work even better... Here are some feelings of the guests when they visited Alka Hospital.... -
Dr Rajesh Gopal | Director, Gujarat State Council for Blood Transfusion (GSCBT), Ahmedabad.
Many many best wishes.... -
Dr M Tajul Islam | MBBS, DTM & H, MCTM, MPH,Technical Advisor, Safe Motherhood Promotion Project, Bangladesh.
I think this is a good example of a successful PPP ( Chiranjeevi Yojana ). It is also an example
how a pro - profit private sector with
the support from govt. can contribute to the safe motherhood.. Congratulations ! -
Dr Jafer Ahmad Haniar | Director ( MCH ), DGFP, MOHZFW, Banglabesh.
A wonderful efforts of a private organization in the reduction of maternal & child ( including infants ) mortality and morbidity in Gujarat.
Hope for every success of the programme ! -
Dr Md. Nazrul Islam | DPM ( RH & DSF ), DGHS, Bangladesh.
It's a wonderful project saving thousands of mothers and babies. Keep up these excellent efforts. -
Md. Abdul Mannan | Jt. Chief ( planning ) Ministry of Health, Bangladesh.
It is indeed a great pleasure for us to visit this hospital which provided us a good example of PPP( Chiranjeevi yojana ).
This type of initiatives may be extended to other parts of the country. -
Dr H Sudarshan | FHI, DFID Project, Govt of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Excellent work under PPP a model to be replicated in districts and states. -
Gerard M La Forgia | Lead Health Specialist, South Asia Human Development Department, World Bank.
I was truly impressed with the quality of care at this facility and how much learning has been applied to improve the programmes !! -
Grant Miller | Centre for Health Policy / Centre for Primary Care and Outcome Research, Standford University, Stanford. CA.
This hospital is a remarkable achievement, and our visit has been a true education. We are grateful for having the opportunity to visit ! -
Manoj Mohanan | Duke University, USA.
This was a very impressive set up, Dr Vaidya's work and that of his team here is exceptional and inspiring.
Good luck for keeping up this work ! -
Mary Stanton | Senior Reproductive Health Advisor, USAID Washington.
Thank you very much for this inspiring visit. The pride, innovation and dedication are so evident, it is so exciting to see that you can care for
poor and rich with high quality care and get such outstanding results. Many mothers and babies were survived because of what you do.
Congratulations to your entire team for this accomplishment! -
Dr Koki Agrarwal | Senior Reproductive Health Advisor, USAID Washington.
Thank you for an inspirational visit. We learnt so much and observed an excellence in the services provided. The energy and motivation, your leadership demonstrates, is exemplary! You are doing a great service for mothers and newborns and providing equitable services. Congratulations! I hope that you have the strength to further expand this model and serve as a role model for other groups! -
Bulbul Sood | MBBS, MNAMS, MPH Country Director, Jhpiego, India.
It was so inspiring to see the wonderful work being undertaken by Dr Vaidya and his team. I am sure he is going to guide further how to strengthen the public private Initiative undertaken by Govt of Gujarat. Keep up with excellent work and we need more
such doctors and hospitals! Please also add the family planning counseling and provision of services. -
Ky Lam | USA COMP-NE-OJT to India PHN.
Thank you for all your time This visit has been an inspiration! -
Dr N Chaudhary | Co ordinator, GSCBT, GSECS, Ahmedabad.
Very good work! Whatever extra I can do at technical level, we will extend to you. God bless! -
Dr Dileep V Mavalankar | Professor Public Systems Group Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India.
Thanks for your hospitality! we are very impressed! I must thank you for the very interesting visit to your hospital. I must say - you seem to be the best manager - almost like a magician - how can you provide such good care at such a low price? ( by Sampurna Suraksha Card )
We would like to document your work and management techniques for teaching at our institute in form of a case study.
I hope you will agree and help us in this. -
Gayatri Giri | Program Associate CMHS-IIM, Ahmedabad.
Excellent time!. We have to understand various aspects of innovative scheme ( Sampurna Suraksha Card ). We intend to visit again. -
Razdan S Raheman | Sambodhi Research, Delhi.
Mother and child care is a vocation with dedication and perspiration. With no greed and no charm Dr Vaidya in an embodiment of this philosophy. He is a model for practitioners of MCH. He is skilled and committed. Please visit him and inform others to
see the quality of services offered by Alka ( Hospital ). My the force be with him and Alka ( Hospital ). -
Mukta Kaushik | Intern, IIM, Ahmedabad.
Well! It's really difficult to make suggestions here because here I find things are more or less nicely managed.
The job done is with the human touch. All the best for future. -
Dr Imaran Malek | CMHS, IIM, Ahmedabad.
As my observation and perception, spending two days here are - Dr Vaidya is a good manager and excellent leader. Alka Hospital
is a good model addressing the mother care. Dr Vaidya is dedicated to help the community and that to rural set up.
In this rapid urbanization era, also we can see the model's replicability. Excellent work! -
Bharati Sharma | IIM, Ahmedabad.
This can be made into excellent centre for midwifery training. I will tell the registrar of the nursing counseling. Dr Harshad and team,
you have and will always have the blessings of your patients which will protect you from all bad luck! -
Prabal V. Singh | Director (Research), ACCESS Health International, Inc., Centre for Emerging Market Solutions Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.
It was my pleasure visiting Alka Hospital and meeting Dr Harshad. I feel people and public health specialist should visit Dr Harshad and learn
about the model ( Sampurna Suraksha Card ). Two things that have attracted my attention is package rate and package coverage.
I feel no where in India you can offer these service at such a low cost. I wish Dr Harshad all luck!
