Our Projects Health play an important role at KS-plus, most of them with the Charitable Hospital in the care of poor patients, who otherwise cannot afford.

Projects Health: Hospital Expansion and Extension

• • Extensions and improvements to the functionality of the building are in the pipeline. The upper floor of the functional wing is awaiting further construction, and a connection between the bed wing and the functional wing is to be built. In terms of infrastructure, the power connection was upgraded in 2023, a wastewater treatment plant is under construction, and KS-plus is doing its utmost to support the upgrading and expansion of facilities and buildings. Because we are also focusing on the development and expansion of the departments, it is the project with the most extensive agenda from the group of health projects.

Projects Health: Department of Obstretics and Gynecology

• • Giving birth without any care is still a considerable risk for both the mother and the newborn. Complications such as heavy haemorrhaging, puerperal fever or a lack of oxygen in the newborn due to birth obstacles are feared. In poor sections of the population, childbirth may well take place during labour in the fields.
  • Preparation and information during pregnancy are an essential component in identifying and minimising risks. Midwife consultations are an effective way of doing this.
  • The implementation of this first step was planned for the beginning of 2024.
  • Further obstetric services are to be added in the medium term.

Projects Health: using regenerative energies, conserving resources

• • Without electricity, there would be no X-rays, no ultrasound examinations, no laboratory tests, no air conditioning in the operating room. Hospitals are therefore real electricity guzzlers. As a rule, the more active the hospital, the more electricity is required. To reduce the ecological footprint, a further strengthening of photovoltaics in Kirpal Sagar has been projected, as well as the adaptation of the power grid for 2022 to reduce line losses. A plant is to be built on the bed wing in the medium term. Although it may not be obvious at first glance, the use of renewable energy sources instead of fossil fuels also has a health dimension. India gets most of its electrical energy from coal-fired power generation, in a country where dense smog in the fall regularly leads to driving bans. Thus, the use of photovoltaics in a broader sense is also one of the projects health.
  • The supplying power line network was upgraded from 2022
  • A wastewater treatment plant was started in October 2023.
  • further 5 kWP PV-modules were installed in June 2024

Projects Health: IT and Data Management

• • Advice on upgrading data processing (since 2014*), search for suitable open source programs (hospital information system). These are designed for large hospitals and require extensive adaptation, which is why a simple, tailor-made solution is envisaged. The first drafts of the program’s user interface were presented on site in 2019, and many other organizational processes were integrated into the concept. In a first step, the existing administration system is to be replicated on a modern database basis. In a second step, additional functions will be integrated in close cooperation with the management and the employees on site.
• *by members of KS-plus e.V. before it was founded in 2017

Projects Healt: Ambulance Bus

• • The hospital has had an ambulance for a long time. In 2013, a second vehicle was added. In addition to classic patient transport between hospitals, both are also used to pick up patients at collection points. Public transport is practically non-existent in the flat countryside, which is why there is a need for a means of transporting the sick. In 2023, the vehicle, which is now 20 years old, had to be replaced. KS-plus contributed to the financing.

Projects Healt: Dental Care

• • The hospital received a dental treatment unit in early 2019. A treatment room was set up and an existing dental chair was installed. KS-plus provided the financial resources. Since then, the X-ray has been upgraded and the chair replaced. In the medium term, the X-ray is to become digital, and a mobile drilling unit is also to extend the radius of action.

Projects Healt: Eye Department

• • More than thirty years ago, eye series examinations were introduced at Kirpal Sagar Hospital, first once a year, then several times. Surgical appointments for cataract removal followed, initially as a simple cataract procedure, then also with the use of an artificial lens. The need grew, as did the legal requirements. Since 2017, new examination equipment has been gradually acquired, and in 2022 the new eye surgery room could be put into operation. Fixed consultation hours, preliminary and follow-up examinations are established, cataract operations take place regularly. KS-plus is involved in planning, procurement and financing.

• • current reporting about the hospital, also about the health service in India
  • help with the employment of the mobile hospital of the partner organization BSK Welfare Society, occupied with personnel of the hospital
  • advice and project planning of the further development of the functional wing (since 2012*)
  • consultation with the long-term hospital planning (since 1992*)
• *by members of KS-plus e.V. before it was founded in 2017

• • Clarification of the legal framework for the deployment of foreign doctors and nurses
  • Clarification with foreign foundations and public institutions