The moving spirit behind all these varied activities was one man,

Late.Hon.Sahakarmaharshi Shri.Vishwanath. alias Tatyasaheb Kore.

The vision, creative urge, genuine concern for common man, experience and single mindedness of this man has brought revolutionary & socio economic changes. The Warana co-operative complex has been a model of "Integrated rural development ".

Health services were one missing link in this development process.  People had to travel quite some distances by foot or any available mobile transport if possible to get better medical facilities, which were too expensive to afford.  In critical stages, the need was acutely felt.  The creative urge and genuine concern for man lead to the vision of a medical complex, a center of excellence.

Study by "Health Consultancy Services" revealed prevalence of Communicable and non-communicable diseases, such as respiratory, Gastro -intestinal, Parasitic, Tuberculosis, leprosy, Malaria. Cardiac related problems were common causes of sudden deaths around this area. With factories and industries around, this area was an accident-prone area. There were also a high incidence of low weight babies, birth malnutrition and Anemia. These commonly occurring health disabilities and problems created awareness in the minds of the architects of this area, where finally the plan of building a well equipped; self-sufficient hospital was decided. This would be for the common human being in the surrounding area with all-possible health and diagnostic facilities, which was only available in the surrounding towns/ cities of this region.

Thus, the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital, at New Pargaon finally came into being to meet the precise medical needs of the rural population on the 2^nd October 1992.  It is a registered Trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act and Societies Registration Act. The hospital building is a modern design with plenty of space available for circulation. The total space is 1, 10,000 Sq.ft. built on 27 Acres of land. The total expenditure of the building was around Rs. 281 Lakhs with equipment of about Rs.80 Lakhs.

The hospital is located on the Wathar-Kodoli road at a distance of 6 kms from the Pune-Bangalore Highway. Bombay is 400 kms and the nearest city is Kolhapur, which is 25 kms.

The temperature of this area varies from 85 to 102 F.  The nearest Airport is Kolhapur.

Regarding the water supply, it is drawn from the nearby Warana River (500metres North.). It goes through process of filtration from the hospitals own filtration plant and is stored in a huge capacity tank. The hospital is also equipped with a Diesel Generator, which is very useful during the lapses of electricity from the main electricity board. The entire facility has been meticulously planned taking into consideration the Utility, Efficiency, Space requirements and co-ordination.

It is a 300 bedded general hospital out of which 15 beds are for Critical care and with two attached medical subcentres of 25 beds each, about 10 kms from the base hospital, with all the basic services such as Medicine, Surgery, Orthopedics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology,

E.N.T, Pathology and Radiology, which are rendering medical services at an affordable cost and also free for deserving poor and needy.

It is being run as a no – profit only true service to humanity charitable hospital with the supportive back up of the Warana Industrial Complex.

The ground floor serves with the Out patient department, the Casualty with an Emergency Major Operation Theatre & 5 beds day ward, Diagnostic facilities consisting of X-ray, Ultrasound, C.T.Scan, a full fledged laboratory, ECG & Physiotherapy Section. There is a Medical shop open round the clock.

A Canteen with tea/coffee, snacks and light meals available is open for patients, their attendants and hospital staff as a mode for refreshment.

The paramedical departments consisting of the Central stores department, sanitary department, Medical records and Civil and Maintenance departments are floored at the basement. The civil department consists of the telephone exchange operators, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, field workers, etc. The sanitary department runs an incinerator for abolishing all type of medical waste material.

The first floor provides an Operation Theatre complex consisting of two major theatres and a minor septic theatre, a well-equipped Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal intensive care unit,

Private & Semi private rooms, and Large General wards, each of a capacity of minimum

60-70 beds & a maximum of 100 beds. The administrative blocks consisting of the office of the Managing authorities of the hospital and institute is also situated on the first floor.

The hospital has totally Four Operation Theatres equipped with Operative Microscopes,

Boyles Apparatus, Central Oxygen, Nitrous Oxide and Suction systems. The operation theatres and Intensive care units have been planned with internal ceiling ducts available for connecting a central air conditioning system in the future. A modern ventilator and other emergency bedside monitors are available for the assessing the unstable patients.

The Diagnostic block consists of modernized Radiology and Pathology departments.

The X-ray department has a 200 ma machine with a digital operating panel, attached fluoroscopic screen and 60 mas Portable unit.  It has one Ultrasound Scanner, which is Portable cum Desk top machine, Just Vision 200(Toshiba) with a multifrequency curvilinear probe (3.5-5MHz), high frequency curvilinear probe (7.5-10MHz) and another high frequency transvaginal probe. The machines portable use is being actively used by the hospital Chief Consulting Radiologist under the Rural Health Department. Two PC&PNDT Act registered outreach service centers have been set up in villages in the adjacent hilly backward and regions where such specialist sevices are lacking involving 5-6 adjacent Talukas and three districts, at distances within a radius of about  110 – 165 kilometers from this base hospital.

The main intention has been to make such costly and clinically necessary investigation modalities available to the common person at a close distance and affordable rate. At the same time other needy patients are given information of this hospital and referred for further management to the base hospital concerned department.

All the local doctors of the area have been involved in this Rural Sonography clinic. It has been started with a positive motive, which is and should be able to create a big impression on the daily inflow to this hospital. Till date over 40000 patients have taken the benefit by getting examined at these clinics and further managed at this base hospital.

The department of Radiodiagnosis added on the developing trend of its department by including the facility of Computed Tomography Scan machine, Somatom CR in JUNE 2001. Thus becoming the one of the rare hospitals set up in a rural area to dare to introduce such modernized equipment and mode of investigation for the needy and poor patients at affordable rates. However due to acute electricity problems and voltage high fluctuations the machine had to be shut down for a certain period. However since July 2010 the old outdated CT Scan machine was replaced with a Siemens Company Spiral CT Scanner along with a modern Care Stream Company Camera / Printer which is in routine use today.

The Pathology department consists of a Clinical Laboratory which is well equipped and conducts all necessary investigations like Hematology, Clinical Pathology, Histopathology, Serology, Biochemistry and Microbiology. An Auto analyzer donated by the Ranbaxy Company is also being utilized for many routine investigations when required. This department turns out to be the first in this full area to have such a well-equipped laboratory. Thereby sincere practical efforts are being made in order to run this laboratory efficiently. The Laboratory has been upgraded with two modern age automated machines, Cell Counter and Auto analyzer. Thereby both Manual & Automated services modes have been kept available and are being offered as per suitable circumstances.

Our blood bank is another branch that has been upgraded, with the introduction of these modalities, and is doing very well with about a minimum of 210 -240 bags of blood being utilized per month.

The Blood Bank has been approved by the Central Government of India.  It has an Eliza Reader a specialized equipment one of the mandatory requirements which has been donated again by our sister concern the Warana Bazaar. All the killer diseases investigations are performed on this equipment. The samples of the blood donors for confirmation of HIV / HbsAg & Syphilis are done in association with our District Hospital at Kolhapur.

Blood donation Camps are frequently held in the same campus as well as in the surrounding peripheral rural & backward areas, usually around every fortnight as per the stock requirement. Fortunately this area is blessed with large numbers of voluntary blood donors. We feel proud that on majority of the occasions it is our employees working in our complex who step forward almost every time in order to bleed themselves for the needy and poor patients.

The reason for feeling proud of this contribution by them is that it is done with no expectation and that too voluntarily. Recently a new scheme was introduced for the generous blood donors where we reward each Blood Donor for donating a blood bag, with an Entry cum Discount card by which him  / her along with their own family members as per requirement could avail all available health care facilities at this organization which includes General Hospital and Dental Hospital where they would be benefitted with 50% in OPD services & 25% in IPD services LIFE LONG.

The hospital Physiotherapy section is commissioned with equipment, such as Autotrac, Short-wave Diathermy, Ultrasound, Wax bath, Infrared with Ultraviolet lamp, Trans Nerve Stimulator & Continuous Passive Motion units.

We have a 15-bedded Intensive Care Unit, where Cardiac and other critical medical and surgical cases are handled. The beds are equipped with modern bedside monitors demonstrating all important parameters related, attached to a Central Monitor on the nursing station, Defibrillators, Modern ventilators, etc. In emergency this facility is proving of great significance and relief in reviving Critical and stressed patients.

We have a well-equipped neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Our Neonatal ICU also has been a great asset in reviving newly born premature and low birth weight infants. The equipment has been donated by our sister concern the Warana Bazaar.

The Shivaji University has recognized this hospital for posting of Interns for compulsory rural Internship. Similarly the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha from Nagpur University has recognized this hospital for posting Medical Officers for the period of two years for completion of rural services under the rural placement scheme, which is compulsory prerequisite for Post Graduate selection in that Institute.

General Health Checkups, Examination, diagnostic and Treatment Camps are held quite frequently every month at the organization every alternate month lasting for two weeks each camp and also in the surrounding peripheral and rural areas which are devoid of such facilities every month.                        Predominantly we organize such camps for patients suffering from diseases or infections involving the eyes, ear, nose and throat, Urinary tract, etc. examinations are done on site by our Ophthalmologist, ENT Surgeon, Urologist, respectively and patients are referred to our base hospital for further management and operations as diagnostically desired. Along with these Patients suffering from Urological problems, Female pelvic problems, Obstetric evaluations, Small parts disease evaluation, etc. are assessed and diagnosed by Ultrasonography examination at the Government Recognized and Registered Outreach Centres & this base hospital Centre set up as per the regulations of the PC&PNDT Act 1994/1996/2003 weekly by the hospital Radiologist.

Here again the needy and willing patients are referred to the base hospital for further necessary management. Radiography study and evaluation of the Radiographs taken either in government rural subcentres or by a local general practitioner is done free on site. The above activities are done as mentioned before in association of the local Government doctors, General practitioners, local volunteers and the gram Panchayat. The intention of this side is to voluntarily assist them and at the same time keep the doors of our Rural Hospital leading to Health for All open always for the needy and deserving patients.

All Investigations are done at this hospital at a fixed concessional rate decided by the management of the hospital. The Indoor facility charges depend on the economic status of the patient. Total free treatment including surgeries is also provided to the needy ones in special cases. The members and their families of this Trust which consist more so of hard working Farmers contributing to our Sugar and Milk industries are offered about 25% concession on their bills. An overall assessment of the patient’s economic status is done for all patients before collecting the hospital charges.

C.M.E. programs, Seminars and Journal clubs are conducted in our institute by the Teachers, Consultants of various departments and their Students also on many occasions with the open participation of the surrounding area local doctors when invited.

Distinguished speakers have been invited specially to preside over such programs from different places. Some of those distinguished speakers were,

1)    Late.Hon’ble Dr. T.T. Changlani, Prof. & Head - Surgery, LTMMC & LTMGH, SION, Mumbai had spoken on Upper Gastrointestinal bleeding disorders.

2)    Dr. Vijay Deshmukh, Prof. & Hon. Surgeon, LTMMC & LTMGH, SION, Mumbai had spoken on preliminary care in trauma.

3)    Dr. D.D. Shetty, Medical Superintendent and Head - Radiology, K.E.M. Hospital, Pune had spoken on Radiodiagnosis and Imaging in Radiology.

4)    Dr. Ashok Naik, Prof. & Head - Radiology, J.N. Medical College, Belgaum had spoken on Basic Radiology

5)    Dr.Dilip Karmarkar, Consulting Pediatrician, Sangli talked on Convulsions.

6)    Dr.Vijay Sarpotdar, Consulting Pediatrician, Miraj talked on asthma in children.

7)    Dr. Bhushan Lakkhar, Professor and Head of Department of Radiodiagnosis, K.M.C, Manipal talked on Advances in Radiology.

8)    Dr.R.V.Karanjekar, Medical Superintendent, Krishna Cardiac Centre, Ahmedabad talked on Standardization of Hospitals.

9)    Dr.Om Tavri, Renowned Radiologist and Imaging Specialist, Mumbai talked on Cardiac M.R.I.

10) Dr.M.G.Tepan, Renowned E.N.T Surgeon, Pune talked on Common E.N.T. problems.

11) Dr.K.H.Sanchetti, Renowned Orthopedics Specialist, Pune talked on Critical Care

      & many other distinguished personalities.

Health education seminars, Public awareness campaigns, one act plays and Lectures on AIDS, Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, Family Planning, Immunization, Breast feeding, Foemale Foeticide & Infanticide, Idiotic Differentiation between Males and Females, Anti Tobacco / Gutkha chewing, Cigarette smoking, Alcohol consumption, Rural School Children Dental Checkups and Awareness campaigns in association with Indian Dental Association / Colgate company etc. etc. are frequently and vigorously organized & carried out by the Executives, Teachers, Consultants, Students  to the hospital and college paramedical staff, patients in peripheral rural and backward areas, their accompanying relatives and attendants in the hospital and at the outreach centres and in the rural and peripheral backward areas during the organized camps..

With a positive motive behind of building the reputation and utility of the hospital, a team under the Rural Health Services department which constantly keeps in touch regularly with the surrounding population of all fields and with their assistance organizes and manages the camps, frequently participate in all the government national health programs in association with the Rural hospitals and Primary health centres all around this area basically in the backward, hilly, mountain bound areas where all medical services are really devoid and unavailable.

These activities having been started in JUNE 2000 have really built up the morale of this hospital, where till date numerous Outreach satellite referral centres have been set up in the surrounding districts, which participate in referring poor and needy patients to this hospital with the help of the district health department personnel, rural hospitals, primary health centres, local doctors, panchayat members, prominent personalities, social workers and people of those concerned areas.

The Ophthalmology department conducts Free Screening & Examination camps and Concessional rate Operative camps (Predominantly Sutureless Cataract Extractions with Lens implantation) of patients of the surrounding Talukas / District. The main procedure done is cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation. Minimum two camps are organized monthly. Since its inception  till date almost more than 18000 needy patients were examined out of which more than 900 patients were operated successfully at the base hospital, under all necessary precautions.

In association with the above activity other camps also are organized which prove fruitful to the disabled and needy people. These activities include Dental examination and treatment camps, Blood Donation camps, Ear, Nose and Throat examination and Operative camps and Concessional rate Sonography examination camps. All the above rural health activities are receiving big responses by the Poor and needy farmers/ villagers who have been observed to definitely get benefited. These activities have also been observed & appreciated of being a great assistance to all the Government Health units. 

We still feel very proud that the Governor of Maharashtra had directly nominated the Vice President of our Mahatma Gandhi Charitable Medical Trust and Medical Director Dr. Sudhakar Kore as a member of the First Management Council of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik.

The main aim of the founder regarding this hospital was to set up Rural Medical College attached to this multispeciality hospital. However, the dream seems to be coincidentally fulfilled by the origin of Tatyasaheb Kore Dental College & Research Centre, recognized by the Dental Council of India and the Central Government of India since June 2002.

A Silver lining over this was laid by the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik, Shri.Dayanand G.Dongaonkar,

On occasion of the Inaugural ceremony of the First Academic Session of the Dental College in December 2002, & the present Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Dr.Ravindra Bapat, On occasion of his visit for the Inaugural ceremony of the Second Academic Session in August 2003, when after inspecting the infrastructure of the college and hospital, they both respectively gave their words of encouragement by expressing their sincere confidence that this college is definitely going to bloom in the days to come.

We agree that God only knows the actual destiny and fate, however sincere efforts and hardwork should make the above come true.

We feel proud to announce and disclose that the students studying in our Dental College have always made us feel proud with their Academic performances in the University Phase wise examinations conducted Annually by persitstently securing either one of the first three ranks in the State. Many of them have secured admissions through merit and passed their examinations for the postgraduate MDS speciality courses they adopted also on Merit. We wish and pray for all our students successful future.       

The students have won flying colours not only in academic fields only, but also in the extracurricular fields like Cultural, Music, Sports, Posters presentations, etc. etc.,  

Rural activities like health check up camps, health education lectures and skits on public awareness topics are frequent activities already being actively organized and practiced by the students under special supervision and guidance, which has been strongly welcomed & appreciated by the rural population.

The Trust started the Sahakar Maharshi Nursing School in the year 2008 for running ANM nursing courses.

The college is recognized & affiliated respectively by the Central Government of India, Dental Council of India & Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik.

The Dental college is at present recognized for BDS undergraduate course since the year 2007 & for MDS postgraduate courses in Prosthodontics & Conservative Dentistry (Renewed for third year) & Periodontics & Orthodontics (Renewed for second year) for present academic year 2011-12. The same courses have been awarded affiliation by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik & Recognized by the Government of Maharashtra.

Since 0ctober 2010 a widespread Health Care Campaign and Awareness program in the rural, peripheral and needy areas has been reinitiated with a sincere and honest intention. The other main intention is to increase rather expand the medical services domain of this hospital at those areas and at the base hospital itself.

Since December 2010, a second Spiral CT scanner was purchased, installed is being presently operated for needy patients investigations at reasonable and affordable rates.

Since February 2011, the Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Medical Sciences was re recognized by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mumbai for running DGO & DMRE courses.

On 18/03/2011, our Chief Radiologist, Dr Shailesh Sudhakar Kore was unanimously elected as a Central Council Member to Indian Radiological and Imaging Association, New Delhi.

The Hospital has been approved by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for Medical Waste Disposal.

The Hospital very soon proposes,

1.   To get itself approved by the Bureau of Indian Standards.

2.   At the same time the Dental College also would be processing its proposal for getting itself NAAC accredition.

3.   The trust intends to get recognized for Medical Tourism and will be taking all necessary steps and undergo all necessary procedures for approval of the same.

4.   The Trust in the near future has its final aim to set up the Param Poojya Savitri Akka Kore Rural Women’s Medical College.

5.   The Trust also aims to at the same time open a Nursing College for offering B.Sc. Nursing and G.N.M, nursing courses thereby involving women / girls from the surrounding rural and peripheral areas.

Thereby all efforts will be taken to fulfill this ultimate dream of our Founder Late Sahakarmaharshi Tatyasaheb alias Vishwanath Kore & all his Founder colleagues. All this will be possible due to the sincere intention, positive determination & true motive of our Founder’s Son Hon’ble Dr Sudhakar Vishwanath Kore the Chairman / President and sole responsible Icon / Beacon Light of the Trust & Warana Health Care Movement along with the strong support and cooperation of Hon’ble Shri Vinayraoji Kore, M.L.A & Chairman of Warana Complex.    

In order to fulfill this dream primarily the Hospital thereby also has to be developed and run as per rules laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards in order to provide sincere and necessary services to the needy patients of this Rural and Peripheral area as per its original aim.

 We look forward to expand our services all over this region to the needy according to their economic status, with a sincere and true motive without keeping or creating differences between people of respective class, creed or sex.  Thus we aim of developing this institute as an explicit example of excellent, sincere and honest service medically and socially, which is lacking in today's world.