Leonard Hospital began as a simple dispensary in 1958 and grew from there to a forty-bed hospital. With the help of two organizations in Germany, Mesereor and Komitee of Doctors, in the 1970s Leonard Hospital expanded to a two hundred-bed facility. Although the personal and mission relationships remain, after twenty five years of support these esteemed organizations have sadly expressed their inability to continue large-scale financial funding. Nonetheless, through their far-sighted and sacrificial support Leonard Hospital is now a 55,716 sq ft facility plus grounds. But needs are growing along with the population and with increasing medical sophistication in equipment and techniques.
Contributions are invited for the following equipment:
Kidney Dialysis Units are needed to help treat kidney patients who otherwise face hardships travelling by bus to
Madurai and back. Likewise,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility,
Cath lab,
Heart-lung machine and other equipment is
needed to support the ever growing demands of our multi-speciality infrastructure.
Leonard Hospital welcomes medical staff interested in serving the disadvantaged.
Doctors, nurses and other practitioners with direct patient contact should be conversant in some Tamil.
In the case of surgeons who come in for specific operations, our Tamil/English-speaking staff can perform preparatory work and translation.
We welcome physiotherapists, pharmacists, laboratory/X-ray/CT technicians.
Leonard Hospital functions largely with income received from nominal patient charges. Deserving cases are treated for free and to others a certain percentage of discount is given. The amount we receive just covers maintenance, equipment, medicines and salaries. With additional income, we could give deeper discounts to patients and could expand the facilities.
We seek major funding for our next goal which is to build on the progress of the Claudine School of Nursing (Diploma) to develop a full-fledged College of Nursing (BSc/MSc). Our ongoing Nursing Education Project thus far has improved the quality of our health services and allowed in most cases disenfranchised young women a better future. We encourage donors to help us take the next step in developing independent facilities for a fully-fledged Claudine College of Nursing.
