Health, Diet, Hygiene and Medical System

The diet at Parivaar for all resident members has been set by specialists dieticians, making the diet for all the members of the community very healthy, balanced and. Food is cooked in the spirit of giving ‘Bhoga’ to the Lord and partaken by all the resident members (children as well as elders) as Prasada. Meals are the same for all the resident members of the Ashram (children and Seva-vratis). The work of the kitchen starts from 5 AM in the morning and finishes at 11 PM (after washing and cleaning of the kitchen and dining hall). Our Kitchen team led by Dining Operations Supervisor Papanda has been putting this tremendous hard work day in and day out, all 365 days.

We have aqua-guards in each Bal-Sadan. So the water consumed by all the resident members is Aqua-Guard filtered. All plates, dishes are cooked twice, first manually and then collectively in hot boiling water. These measures largely take care of many potential water-borne ailments. Special emphasis is given to hygiene and cleanliness.

We have doctors visiting every week. Two 24 hour Resident Nurses (Reenadi and registered medical practitioner Pranabda) live at the Ashram as residential members of the community thus ensuring 24 hour medical care. Their task is to administer routine drugs like those for cold, cough, skin infections, cuts/bruises, stomach ailments etc and also keep under observation and do preliminary treatment during fever, illness. Beyond the point till which the Resident Nurses can take care, the child is admitted to the Hospital and no risk is taken in this regard. A vehicle (Maruti Van) is stationed 24 hour at the Ashram premises and used as an Ambulance to meet any exigencies. All the members of this community, children as well as Resident Sevaks are covered under Group Insurance and thus the hospitalization is in any hospital is done cashlessly with the Insurance Company bearing the costs. Many children and staff have underwent critical operations. Two of our children underwent plastic surgeries because they had suffered major burns in their early life (before being admitted to Parivaar). A lady worker has undergone a monthly hospitalization for life-saving operation for tumour, and more recently a senior worker was admitted and treated after Heart attack.

Detailed Medical Documentation for each child

Each child at Parivaar has a separate medical file in which all periodic inspections by the doctors are documented in a standard template and maintained in that child’s file. All prescriptions, hospitalization documents, ailment histories, allergies / susceptibilities are also documented and appended in this file. Thus, a continuous health and medical history of each child and inmate is being continuously developed and recorded. As a result, any new doctor can be consulted and just by going through the respective Health File he gets the exact snapshot of the health status and health history of the child.