History

The founder of Samaritan Hospital is late Mar Abraham D. Mattam (First Bishop of Satna Diocese) and established on 16th August, 1979. Inaugurated by Honourable Minister Ramhit Gupta, Finance Minister, Madhya Pradesh.

The Hospital is fully owned by the Diocese of Satna. Over the years there have been Rev Fathers and Sister providing their dedicated service to the Hospital.

Samaritan Hospital, Pateri, Satna

The Hospital is situated in Pateri located 3-4 kms away from Satna Railway station. Satna is a Railway junction. There are 5-6 Cement manufacturing companies close to Satna. Other than this the primary occupation would revolve around agriculture.

Samaritan Hospital is located in a 16 acre plot with the Pastoral Centre, Convents and Social Service Society situated alongside.

Samaritan is a 35-bedded Eye Hospital. Health care facility was founded in 1972 as part of the Apostolic Mission of the Diocese. Extending ‘Medicare at Moderate charges is the Avowed Motto’ of the hospital.

It caters to the health care needs of the most backward and low-income marginalized. The beneficiaries of the hospital mainly are: the urban and Sub urban slum dwellers, the tribes, scheduled castes, migrant labourers, agricultural labourers, peasants and the other weaker and vulnerable sections of the society.

Samaritan Hospital is a comprehensive Eye Care Department managed by Samaritan Social Service Society. It is committed to the goal of elimination of avoidable blindness through comprehensive eye care services. Today, on average, the Hospital examines 3000 people and performs 300-450 surgeries, free of cost, a month. It also has one optical shop functioning near to it. The Hospital is providing a package of promotive, preventive, and curative eye care services through an integrated system of screening camps, health education, surgeries and base hospital activities to cover the target population in 8 districts. Every year around 500 outreach-camps are conducted on average in remote villages. Daily screenings through vision centres, awareness programs, screening with mobile vision centre, rehabilitation programs for the blind, etc. are the activities conducted under the department.

Relevance of the Samaritan Hospital

Public health facilities are not in the required number to serve the total population in the region. So, the existing govt. health centres are supposed to serve a huge population of the area. As a result, Govt. cannot able to give comprehensive eye care support for the villages. At the same time, Samaritan Hospital, which is situated in Pateri village of Satna district, is providing comprehensive eye care services for the poor and marginalized people of the remote area of Bundelkhand region with the limited facilities. Every year we conducted more than 400 outreach camps and 4000 cataract surgeries in the area with the support of Sight savers International and District blindness Control Society.

NABH Accreditation

Samaritan Hospital, Satna on August 17th 2021 received the Entry Level Certification (Certificate no. PESHCO-2021-4888) from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Health Care Providers; (NABH). National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Health Care Providers (NABH) established on 2005 is a constituent body of Quality Council of India (QCI) which has it headquarter in New Delhi. It is the principal accreditation for hospitals and health care providers in India.

In order for a hospital to be recognized by NABH, the hospital is to be evaluated across 600 parameters, comprising of patient centered standard as well as organization centered standard. NABH standard for hospitals is accredited by The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), HQ, Dublin, Ireland. The validity period for NABH accreditation certificate is of 3 years. Samaritan Hospital being certified by NABH is a validation to its excellent standard in the area of patient's safety and providing high-quality health care services producing best results constantly.

The Samaritan Hospital is equipped with a solid infrastructure. It operates with an Outpatient Department (OPD), one Operation Theatre (OT), it possesses sufficient number of well-trained staff and best doctors resulting in a smooth and swift flow of work; it has a fully functional optical shop within the hospital campus. Hospital ambulance is always on standby for any emergency. On an average 1500 people are examine, and around 400 surgeries are performed per month. Samaritan Hospital is best in its class for providing quality eye health care in a reasonable rate. Health care is Samaritan Hospital is easily accessible to everyone.