Amma Blesses Mobile Tele-Medicine Unit

16th,May

Today Amma blessed AIMS Hospital’s new  “mobile medical unit.” The unit will bring the state-of-the-art medical care of AIMS to rural areas via its satellite. Dr. Prem Nair, the Medical Director of AIMS, and Dr. Kumar Menon, a doctor working out of the unit, gave Amma a quick tour of the unit’s facilities. Amma then requested that all the ashramites chant Om lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu as she performed the arati.

The unit, which is as large as a city bus, contains facilities for X-ray and ECG, as well as a pathology lab. The manufacturing of the unit was sponsored by Direct Relief International, a U.S.-based NGO that provides aid to strengthen in-country health efforts around the world. The satellite-technology is provided by ISRO.