SUPPORT SERVICES
Water System
A unique feature of the Sanatorium is its own system of water supply. An
expansive water reservoir was constructed between 1951 and 1956, with the
help of DVC, by building a Dam over a running streamlet on the southern
side. This dam supplies about 50,000 gallons of water everyday. After
being purified through a Filtration Plant and stored in overhead tanks
water is supplied to various locations through well-connected pipelines.
Diet Services
The following is the Daily Diet Chart for patients at Sanatorium. For
further details, please see "Role of Nutrition in Tuberculosis".
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Monday to Saturday: |
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Breakfast |
- Bread, 3 slices |
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- Milk, 200ml |
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- Banana, 1 daily |
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Lunch |
- Rice (250gm-300gm) or 8 chapattis |
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- Dal (thick lentils soup) |
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- Vegetable curry |
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- 1 piece of fish (65gm) or meat (90gm) |
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At 4 pm |
- Milk, 200ml |
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Supper |
- Rice, (250gm-300gm) or 8 chapattis |
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- Dal (thick lentils soup) |
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- Vegetable curry |
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- One egg |
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Sunday |
- Non-meat diet with additional
vegetable curry
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Saal Woods
To help the TB patients breathe fresh air and to provide sylvan
surroundings, the Sanatorium has developed, on its own, an extensive
growth of Saal (Shorea Robusta) woods which even today stand as an
attractive diversion point for visitors. Also cultivated vegetable and
fruit gardens are able to provide to some extent essential food items.
Agro-farm and Dairy Farm
The supply of rice
and wheat for consumption of the patients would have
been badly affected due to frequent price increases but for the
Sanatorium's own arrangements to produce them locally. For this purpose
the available dry rocky land was, with great effort, made into moderately
arable land. This has also generated seasonal and casual work for
agricultural labourers staying in the vicinity of the Sanatorium for about
7,000 man-days.
For the speedy recovery of TB in-patients, a dairy was started within the
campus of the Sanatorium in 1959. The milk production went up gradually
and nowadays the dairy farm caters to the requirements of in-patients,
staff and their families, people from neighbouring villages and also a
hundred poor children everyday.
SCHOOL
A free Middle School "Vivekananda Vidyalaya" was also run for the local
tribals and backward boys and girls (total pupils 380) with the assistance
of human resource input from the Government of Jharkhand. The school has
classes ranging from Baalbrag (Preparatory) to class VII.
WELFARE
The institution also conducts welfare activities according to the needs of
the poor people of the surroundings. In the last two years the following
items have been distributed:
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Three-wheel-rickshaw for public transport.
* New, old and assorted garments.
* Quality school uniforms.
* Daily Milk to 100 children.
* Educational scholarships (merit cum means) for meritorious students of
class VIII and X.