Health Service Activities
YSS is running many charitable hospitals and clinics in Ranchi, and West Bengal.
At present in Ranchi outdoor clinic, we have doctors of different specializations who treated some 35,000 outpatients yearly. An eye camp is organised in the ashram, every month and larger yearly eye camps are held in Jharkhand, Dwarahat, and West Bengal.

Dakshineswar Ashram is serving the sick through 23 homeopathic clinics and 4 allopathic clinics, and is running a pathology laboratory in Telary, a rural area south of Kolkata. Each year in West Bengal about 2.5 lakh patients are treated in the homeopathic clinics and more than 10,000 patients treated in the allopathic clinics. YSS also conduct Medical Camps in remote parts of West Bengal. We also provided financial aid to poor persons suffering from serious ailments to tide over the exigencies: like helping to purchase a needed medical appliance, heart and cornea surgery and treatment, etc.

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Leprosy Colonies
Persons suffering from leprosy cannot visit regular hospitals even for common medical problems such as cough and cold, viral fever, or eye treatment, as there is some stigma attached to this disease. YSS has adopted two leprosy colonies at Ranchi where our doctors visit twice a week to take care of the inmates' medical needs. We had also organized an eye camp for them.

In addition, we have taken up the project for early detection of leprosy in low-income residential areas near the Ranchi ashram. We conduct a yearly leprosy detection camp.

YSS has been serving the inmates of the Vidyasagar Pally Leprosy Colony in Nimpura, Kharagpur, West Bengal, for many years. We have stepped up the homeopathic service, with three doctors now serving there. More than 2,500 patients received the benefit of free treatment, including medicines. We continue to provide a dresser with supplies and thus take care of the afflicted, who require regular bandaging of their wounds.

We are also running a free coaching centre to help the children of the leprosy colony. We encourage the youngsters to participate in football and other sports by organizing sporting events. We are currently planning self-help projects for the adults to enable them to earn some income.

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Handicapped
In addition to conducting monthly free eye camps at Ranchi, half-yearly camps for the handicapped are conducted at Dwarahat. Annual camps in aid of the handicapped are held in various parts of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, and Andhra Pradesh. At Nimpura, West Bengal, we provide training and treatment for handicapped school children.

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Promoting Communal Harmony
As a result of communal riots in the Tangra area of Kolkata at the end of 1992, many dwellings belonging to Muslims were partially to totally destroyed. YSS reroofed and repaired 118 dwellings. The Society also provided four tube wells for the area. The wells have been maintained in working order by the Society till today. We found the need for medical treatment of the poor and needy in this area and opened a free allopathic medical camp a homeopathic medical camp. Our active involvement in service activities in this area has helped achieve a harmony and community feeling throughout the whole Tangra region.

In collaboration with the Aman Committee, Kamarhati, Kolkata, YSS has been providing free medical treatment to the needy public for the past several years. Stressing the value and importance of education, YSS is providing textbooks to deserving students in the Kamarhati area irrespective of caste, creed, religion, or language. More than 200 poor students have received books each year.

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Relief Activities
YSS is doing its mite in alleviating the sufferings of people affected by natural calamities like cyclones, floods, and earthquakes.

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Education and Scholarship Programmes
We now have 23 educational institutions affiliated with and managed by YSS. For the students of these schools, we hold yearly "how-to-live" camps, and periodic orientation camps for teachers to further their understanding of Paramahansaji's teachings.

During the past few years, YSS has introduced many new scholarships for deserving students. We now have a growing scholarship programme for our schools, and for college and professional course students. Throughout the country, more than 750 students receive financial help annually.

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