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Our Founder SWAMI RAMA of the Himalayas
Swami Rama's most remarkable and awe-inspiring project is The Himalayan Institute & Medical City. His bold vision to bring medical services to 15 million mostly poor people who have little or no health care in northern India began modestly in 1989 with an outpatient program in the Himalayan foothills of Western Uttar Pradesh. Today that vision has grown to include a fully operational 500-bed state-of-the-art hospital 20 kilometers from the city of Dehra Dun; an adjacent nursing school and the P.V. Narasimha Rao Medical College; a combined therapy program that joins the best of modern Western medicine and the time-tested wisdom of the traditional methods of healthcare; a rural development program that has adopted more than 150 villages; and housing facilities for staff, students, and patients' relatives. The hospital offers a range of services never available to people in rural northern India, or throughout most of the rural country.
Guided by the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust, the hospital, medical city, and rural development program are considered models of healthcare for the whole of India and for medically under-served people world-wide. It is also costly, with total project expense approaching $1 billion dollars.
"The Lord of Life in the Universe is within me. I am not the body, but a shrine of that Lord, the Lord of Love and Life. Through my thoughts, speech and actions, I will emanate love". So spoke to us our beloved teacher, master and friend: Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas. Link for Swami Rama biographical details: http://www.geocities.com/swamiramabio/index.htm
