About Shanti Bhavan Medical Center

Simdega, Jharkhand

It became clear that any number of mobile medical ministries or outpatient clinics would not be enough to serve the one million people in this large region who have no access to a hospital or advanced medical care. During 2002, Brother NJ was on a family vacation to Branson, Missouri when he encountered a theater building that provided a vision to him for a 200 bed, full-service medical center to be built near Simdega.

 

The land was acquired in 2005, and plans for the hospital began to take shape. A skilled and experienced team of architects from ©Engineering Ministries International of Colorado Springs, Colorado, completed the initial engineering and architectural work. An experienced Indian architectural and construction team was selected, and the building planning commenced.

 

Construction on phase one of Shanti Bhavan Medical Center began in 2006. By the summer of 2008, fund raising and construction continued steadily to the point that the superstructure of the building had grown to three floors. The outpatient clinic and a 75 bed hospital will open in the fourth quarter of 2011. The 75 bed hospital will be expanded to a 200 bed hospital in a third phase to be completed as funding becomes available.

Helpers to the Helpless (A medical center without walls)

Not only will Shanti Bhavan serve as a clinic and hospital for several million people from the thousands of villages surrounding it; Shanti Bhavan will also serve as a medical education center.  The staff at Shanti Bhavan will train up to 400 native village women (Helpers to the Helpless) in basic healthcare so that they might return to their native villages as trained ‘medical practitioners’ to conduct nutritional and sanitation training as well as provide the first level of preventative healthcare, emergency care and to triage those people who need additional medical care to Shanti Bhavan Medical Center.