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Here is a Doctor cum Former IAS Officer With an Unique Goal !!!!

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 Dr. Sabahat S Azim, a former IAS officer and a doctor in West Bengal has undertaken an initiative to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, looking to help more than 70 per cent of India’s population living in the villages.
Dr. Azim has come up with an innovative design which will cut cost for the hospital in terms of infrastructure and unnecessary procedures which will enable the hospital to offer its services at lower costs.
It all started from the remote corner of Sonamukhi in Bengal’s Bankura district. With the nearest hospital being 45 kilometres away, a team of 13 doctors and 18 nurses ensured that the hospital catered to at least 200 patients every day, including BPL families and just within six months of launching the first Glocal hospital in July 2011, the hospital had reached the break-even point.
“They have proved that social good and profit can go hand in hand,” says Sandeep Farias, Founding Partner of Elevar Equity, which invested Rs 15 crore in the company along with Sequoia Capital India in January 2011.
It was the untimely death of his father that led Azim, a trained medical doctor, to launch Glocal in July 2010. “My father died due to unnecessary treatments. I thought, if this can happen to me, a doctor and an IAS officer, what about others?” he said.
At Glocal, his team has come up with a protocol-driven model, where the computerized system will help the doctor automate diagnosis of 42 diseases, ranging from ischemic heart disease to malaria, which they identified was affecting 95% of the patients. Azim points out that he is able to charge lower fees by restricting the infrastructure and protocols to the bare minimum.
While a typical 100-bed hospital is about 70,000 square feet in size, Glocal has been able to restrict it to 30,000 square feet thus keeping cost of construction lower.
At around Rs 8 crore for a 100-bed hospital, a Glocal hospital is built at about 50% of the cost of a private secondary hospital. The company aims to reach over Rs 28 crore in revenue in fiscal year 2014. As Azim begins Glocal’s expansion beyond West Bengal, he is not resting on his laurels. “It has been exciting so far but there is much more work to do,” he says.
As this laudable venture looks at a future girdled with success, our country’s sub-urban and rural areas can heave a sigh of relief as for a simple fact, Glocal charges Rs 10,000 for a caesarean section, which costs about Rs 50,000 in other private hospitals – Glocal is an innovative design for a country in need…
source:::: siliconindia net
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Message For The Day…Devotion to God Purifies Your Heart….

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Wavering and indecisiveness will affect you, if you want to practice Righteousness. If you are not stabilized in the Knowledge of the Self, you will not have a good sense of direction for your actions, nor will you achieve true victory. That is why the Geetha lays so much emphasis on the necessity to know both the kshethra (field or the body) and the kshethrajna (the Knower in the body). Know both, and then, you are entitled to the title, Amrithasya Puthraah: “Children of Immortality.” Through devotion to God alone, this knowledge can be attained. Devotion also purifies your heart and elevates your inner feelings and gives you a broad, universal vision and brings to you the Grace of God. Plants cannot rise up to drink the life giving fluid from clouds, hence the clouds come down and pour as rain.

Devotion and morality are very important for physical health. They free your mind from agitation, and feed it with joy and contentment. –

Swami Sathya Sai…in One of HIS discourses..

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Mahaperiavar Hosts Dinner For Hunters!!!!!

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Kannappan the hunter fed Shiva Mahadev. Guhan the hunter fed Sri Rama. Here, the hunters named the Senjus of the Srisailam forest area were fed by the Paramacharaya!

During the 1934s, when the road transport facilities were very scanty, Paramacharya was traveling with his entourage in the desolate forests of Srisailam. Somewhere on the way, they came across the Senju hunters.

Mistaking them for their foes, the hunters raised their bow and arrows initially, but when they saw the sage with his divya tejas, they realized their mistake and became friendly.

The people who came to oppose their passage became their security guards, carrying their luggage and watching over their camps at night time. Only after safely seeing off Paramacharya and his entourage at their next destination, the hunters assembled before them to take leave.

Paramacharya ordered the manager to give them some cash, but they refused to touch the money. The leader of the group said something to the manager, who nodded his head in disapproval and spread out his hands.

Paramacharya snapped his fingers and called the manager to attention: “What is it that he asks for and you refuse?”

“They want to show their dancing skills before Periyavaa”.

“So you told them that I can’t see their dance because it was your opinion as manager that it was beneath the dignity of SriMatam.”

There was not any trace of anger in Paramacharya’s words. The manager was silent.

And the Paramacharya, who would not witness the performance of even the great and popular dance artistes, gave them permission to dance before him, with a condition: that while any of their males could dance, only those females who hadn’t attained puberty could join the males in dance.

Paramacharya asked them, “you might have different types of dances to suit different occasions: one for Swami (God), one for victory, one for sports and so on. What type of dance are you going to perform now?”

They gave a telling reply: “We are going to perform the dance reserved only for the closest of our relatives.”

Paramacharya witnessed their dance, blessed them, and hosted a nice dinner for them.

source:::::periva.proboards.com
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Message For The Day…You Are Nothing But A Shadow…..

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God is Supreme Energy (Mahashakthi) and the individual is Deluding Power (Mayashakthi). In this impermanent and ever transforming world, God is the only permanent and fixed entity. In order to realize Him, who is eternal and true, one has no option but to attach oneself to that Source and Sustenance, and offer Him loving devotion and dedicated service. This path is the destiny of one and all, irrespective of age, scholarship, caste, creed, gender or status. When walking along the road, you can watch your shadow, falling on mud, dirt, thorn, sand, wet or dry patches of land. Has anyone ever worried or is affected by the fate of their shadow? No! Everyone knows that the experience of shadow is not eternal and real. So too, you are but the shadow of the Absolute. Internalize this truth – this is the only remedy for all sorrow, travail and pain.

Swami Sathya Sai…in one of HIS Discourses…
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Money Making Myths…Busted!!!

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 ‘Study hard, you will have a rich future!’, ‘Work hard, you will have money to burn!’; similar to these two sayings, there are many more sayings which the Indians are very much used to. No one knows who wrote these lines, but almost everyone tries to implement all these.
Being Indian, no one can say that they haven’t tried to implement all these ideas. May not be for a longer period of time, but at least once in their lives, they must have tried all these.
However, most of these sayings are totally deceiving and ends up bringing no good to anyone. Here is the list of 7 such sayings which has been misleading the minds over the past centuries as reported by ‘unmaskingthemillionaires.com’.
. ‘Money brings money.’
As it has been already said, business is all about serving the customers. The more proficiently one fulfills the needs of the customer, the more success he will taste in his life.
Most of the millionaires in the rich league started their business career from scraps and not with money. Even the richest person in today’s world started earning money by selling gums from doors to doors.
 ‘I’m waiting for the right time.’
‘Time and tide waits for none!’. Despite of knowing this, people usually waits for the right time to start up with.
Time is precious and can never be categorized as right or wrong. Beating the odds, one can achieve success.
Most of the successful people’s stories reveal that they started when everyone was against them. If they would have wasted their time in convincing everyone to support them, today ‘Microsoft’ and ‘Dell’ would have been a myth.
‘Time made it hard to become a millionaire now.’
Business doesn’t means to sell something or just to trade with something. Business means serving the customers, making them happy, taking care of their investments.
Time has nothing to do in bringing wealth into anyone’s wallet. The increasing number of millionaires in today’s world proves this.
No doubt, with the advancement of technology, the competition has increased but at the same time, using the same technology one can serve the needs of customers in a more decent and an easier way.
‘Amazon.com’ can be a better example in this regard.
 ‘Age doesn’t permit me.’
Warren Buffet is the person who is ruling the recent list of the richest people. Buffet is crossed 82 and will be stepping on 83 by August, 2013.
Also, Mark Zuckerberg is mere a 26 years billionaire and so is the other co-founder of Facebook, Dustin Moskovitz.
Where do age problem arises? It’s not the age but the way one works, which makes them rich. When it’s work, there can’t be any age. One should have the spirit to work and not the wrinkles in their faces to retire from work.
‘Select the best way, make more money.’
When it comes to work, nothing can be categorized as good or bad; work is work.
At present, people like bankers, software giants, medical professionals, consultants, retail marketers, etc. has been occupying the places in the list of the rich people.
Except having money, more and more money, there are no other criteria which can label someone as a millionaire or billionaire.
In the league of the rich people, there are people who are related into a single sector and also there are people who are related to multiple sectors.
 ‘Education makes people rich.’
Education can enhance one’s knowledge but it can’t make someone rich. If this would have been the reality, the list of the rich people in the world would have had all the names of the professors and the lecturers of the top colleges.
Education can show the way but one has to choose their own way with their own experience.
In today’s list of the richest people, there are several names that don’t even have a basic graduation and are dropouts from colleges. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Li and Michael Dell are some of the examples in this list.
‘Work hard, earn more.’
This is one of the most common sayings. Whether in home or in school or in colleges or it be in workplace, this is the first ‘money’ lesson.
If this would have been the reality, the person carrying a load of hundred of kilos on his back would have been the richest man in this planet today.
Money has nothing to do with how hard one is working. Money is the result of how proficient one person is at his job. The way they completes their task, the amount of time they saves while completing their tasks makes money and not the amount of hard work they does.
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Power of Peaceful Mind !!!

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: SILENCE YOUR MIND
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There once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn. He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded.

Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch.

Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance. The farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks sincere enough. So the farmer sent the little boy back in the barn.

After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.

The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.

MORAL:

A peaceful mind can think better than a worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of silence to your mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps you to set your life the way you expect it to be…!..

source:::::unknown….input from a friend of mine…
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