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Ever conscious of its social responsibility the family runs
the Ramana Gounder Medical Trust Hospital, a non-profit
health care center to provide free maternity and childcare
services. RGMT is a rural hospital in Coimbatore, India, which
is being run solely to render medical care to the economically
weaker sections of society.
The daily outpatient attendance is about
150 and inpatient beds are occupied mainly by women and
children. There is a well equipped clinical laboratory,
X-ray unit and operation theatre. Besides providing medical
out-patient and in-patient care, the hospital also provides
free community service in the neighbouring villages by way
of home visits by para-medical and nursing staff who give
talks on hygiene, sanitation, nutrition and prophylactic
inoculations against diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough,
measles and poliomyelitis.
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