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A Covid Hospital With 10,000 Beds, and Decades of Eye Camps

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Radha Soami Satsang Beas's own website names four charitable hospitals run by its Maharaj Jagat Singh Medical Relief Society: the 300 bed Maharaj Sawan Singh Charitable Hospital at Beas, the 50 bed Maharaj Charan Singh Charitable Hospital at Sikanderpur, the 75 bed Bhota Charitable Hospital in Himachal Pradesh, and the Dera Hospital at Dera Baba Jaimal Singh, alongside an eye camp program begun in 1965 that treated nearly 59,000 people for cataracts and other eye diseases through 2002, its final documented camp, in 1989, treating more than 6,000 patients with the help of more than 7,000 volunteer sevadars.

On 5 July 2020, per independent Indian press reporting, the organization's Chhatarpur campus in Delhi was made operational, with its own consent, as the Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre and Hospital, a 10,000 bed facility at the time reported as the world's largest Covid-19 care centre, run under Indo-Tibetan Border Police management rather than by the organization itself once converted, a striking instance of a century old religious campus repurposed at national scale during a public health emergency.

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RSSB: Own Website, "Medical Camps" Page (rssb.org)
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