Voluntary Health Services (VHS) is a non-profit institution established in 1958 with the objective of serving the health needs of the community. The past four and half decades have seen it grow into a 400-bed hospital with technologically advanced facilities. The notable domains of expertise operative in its specialty centers are acute care, maternity cum family welfare, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS care. A board of philanthropists, eminent physicians and social workers, serving with voluntary interest, manages VHS. It has the distinct advantage of simultaneously treating the affected and also educating them to adopt preventive measures. Job-oriented training, medical research and community health related assignments are the other activities in the task list of VHS. Internationally acclaimed for its r esourceful missions on a large scale, it also proposes to embark on large community projects, research studies and train medical and non-medical graduates.

Operative endeavors

• Fourteen mini-health centers targeting a rural population of about 5000 each.

• Geriatric, pediatric and maternal care.

• Community health awareness campaigns.

• Blood bank In collaboration with Rotary club.

• Diploma programs for medical and non-medical graduates.

• Research units in general surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, diabetology.
  community medicine and leprosy.

Services

• Prevention and cure.

• Emphasis on family care.

• Income-based medical insurance for the family.

• Community participation in health care delivery.

• Community based medical care and education.

• Job-oriented training and applied medical research.

Partnerships

VHS eagerly anticipates new projects and relationships with international and domestic organizations as well. These can be contracted research projects, sharing of resources and knowledge, large scale capacity building programs to NGOs, community based programs, evaluating NGO and social development programs, and even play the role of a "mother NGO" by nurturing, training and supporting other NGOs to make them self-reliant. Interested philanthropists, international agencies and voluntary organizations are encouraged to contact VHS to explore such collaborative engagements.

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