Our History
An Opportunity to Serve
Ramakrishna Mission started its activities first in the field of education in Arunachal Pradesh, the then NEFA, in the year 1966. Ramakrishna Mission was the first philanthropic and monastic organization to come to this remote corner of our country to serve the people of the state on the request of public leaders of this state, the state government and on the personal request of Smt. Indira Gandhi. The local leaders and the then Lt. Governor of the state Sri K. A. A. Raja, too, requested our headquarters at Belur Math, District Howrah, West Bengal, this time to start a similar service program in the field of medical at Itanagar. Concern about the health care situation of the state the Mission authorities establish a hospital at Itanagar to provide quality health care to the people. Thus, the Mission was given an opportunity to serve the “God in man” through its health care facility.
The Beginning
The birth of the Ramakrishna Mission Hospital took place on the morning of December 28, 1977 when Lt. Governor Sri K.A.A. Raja laid down the foundation stone for the hospital premises. On October 19, 1979 the hospital was formally inaugurated and declared open by Srimat Swami Vireshwaranandaji Maharaj, the 10th President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. Four and half decades of its journey has proved that the hospital has grown from strength to strength and has attained great heights.
Not content with providing only medical services to the people of this remote state of India, the hospital started a School of Nursing in the year 1985 for training tribal as well as non- tribal girls of Arunachal Pradesh. The school offers a three-year diploma course in General Nursing and Midwifery. The School was accorded recognition and was affiliated to the Assam Nurses' Midwives' and Health Visitors' Council in the year 1987. It is also registered and licensed under the Indian Nursing Council. Presently it is affiliated to Arunachal Pradesh Nursing Council.
The hospital is a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission, which has its Headquarters at Belur, District
Howrah, in the state of West Bengal. The mother organization is duly registered under the Societies Act XXI of 1860 vide registration number # 1917/3 of 1909-10 as a charitable/philanthropic organization.
