Students Health Home, A non-profit cooperative healthcare organization in West Bengal, India.

What is Students Health Home? Origin: Born from student movements.
Status: Independent health welfare cooperative.
Not an NGO: Not government-run.
Not insurance: Provides direct healthcare services.
💰 Funding & Student Costs Fees: ₹10 per student annually.
Donations: Relies heavily on public goodwill.
OPD cost: ₹5 daily for medicine.
Admission: ₹10 only for members.
Bed charge: ₹30 daily for students.
🩺 Services for Non-MembersOPD registration: ₹50 valid for one month.
General bed: ₹850 per day.
ICU bed: ₹1,600 per day.
AC cabin: ₹2,600 per day.
Advanced ICU: ₹4,600 per day.
Oxygen: ₹100 per hour.
❌ Excluded Treatments Heart attacks: Acute care not available.
Open heart: Surgeries not performed here.
Dialysis: Not available at centers.
Transplants: Organ transplants not supported.
Neurosurgery: Specialized brain surgery excluded.
📍 LocationsNorth Bengal: Cooch Behar, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Malda.South Bengal: Midnapore, Hooghly, Nadia, Purulia, Bardhaman.
Kolkata area: Central Kolkata, Dum Dum, Barasat, Behala.🎬
“Kintu Golpo Noy” FilmGenre: Docu-feature length cinema film.Subject: History of Students Health Home.
Features: Real life inspiring true events.If you need a complete literal translation of any specific question numbered 1 to 10, please let me know which section you want to read.

1. What is a Student Health Home?
   Students Health Home is a self-sustaining student health movement working tirelessly towards the goal of good health as defined by the World Health Organization. It is not a government organization, nor any so-called NGO or health insurance.
2. Is the Students’ Health Home a political organization?
   Students’ Health Home is a product of India’s freedom struggle and is enriched by the participation and contributions of the best people of pure politics.
3. How are the expenses of the Student Health Home paid for?
   The main income is the universal membership subscription of students (currently 10 taka per head per year). In addition, donations from many well-wishers and brotherhood collections are collected. Although government grants were introduced since 1962, they were nominal after 2012. Some solution could be found if the income from treating the common people at a fair price, which will be introduced from 2022. However, numerous doctors here provide health services to students free of charge. Countless teachers and social workers volunteer. As a result, the expenditure on human resources is limited.
4. What is the cost of treatment for students at the Student Health Home?
   The cost of medicine in OPD is Rs 5 per day, Rs 10 for admission, no matter how high the price. Bed charge is 30 taka for admission. Similarly, the cost of tests conducted in the home center is also proportional, 50 percent of the external tests are borne by the home. However, nothing is free in the health home. It is not a charitable medical center, but the eternal right of the member students.
5. How to get membership in the Students’ Health Home?
   Universal membership is based on the institution. The management committee of a government-approved school, college or university or the competent authority can decide to accept membership. They can contact the regional or central office of the Students’ Health Home with a copy of that decision and get a specific application form. The application form duly filled and signed by the head of the institution and a subscription of 10 taka per number of students should be submitted together by cheque or online. The cheque should be made payable to STUDENTS HEALTH HOME. If the application is accepted in the meeting of the editorial board of the Students’ Health Home, it is presented in the next meeting of the executive committee. Its decision is final.
6. Do non-members receive medical services?
   Yes, but at a fair price. The health home charges a registration fee of Rs 50 per patient for one month in the outdoor area. More or less 50 doctors specializing in various fields see patients at the main center in Moulali. If a patient is admitted indoors, the cost for a normal bed is Rs 850 per day, AC bed rent is 1600 taka, AC cabin rent is Rs 2600 , ICU bed rent is Rs 4600 and oxygen cost is only Rs 100 per hour. Almost all types of operations are performed in the modern operation theater. There is an ICU and modern testing system. There is no profit-oriented ownership here, so there is no greedy manipulation. In a word, ‘affordable treatment within the means’.
7. What is the goal of the Student Health Home?
   Achieving good health as defined by the World Health Organization.
8. Where are the regional centers of the Students’ Health Home located?
   There are regional centers of Health Homes in Cooch Behar, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri, Malda, Kaliaganj, Raiganj, Gangarampur, Baharampur, Jangipur, Kandi, Jiaganj, Domkal, Krishnanagar, Nabadwip, Katwa, Burdwan, Rampurhat, Purulia, Raniganj, Jhargram, Medinipur, North Hooghly, Bali, Amta, Chandannagar, Kolkata, North Kolkata, Habra, Barasat, Belgharia, Champahati, Kakdwip. There are also preparatory committees in Balurghat, Bankura, Domjur, Behala. Preparations are underway to reconstitute regional centers of the Homes in some other places.
9. Are all diseases treated at the Student Health Home?
   Currently, almost all diseases are treated except acute heart attacks, eye surgeries, dialysis, transplants and neurosurgery. Many renowned doctors are associated here. Science, not commerce, has the final say here.
10. What exactly is ‘But Not a Story’?
    A full-length feature film. Although not literally, the bright moments of the history of the health home are captured in this film. This film presents a story by weaving a garland of some true events. Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Paran Banerjee, Papiya

This film was made with the voluntary work of renowned artists like Adhikari, Meghnad Bhattacharya, Ashok Mukherjee, Devashankar Halder, Badshah Maitra. Although Eros bought the commercial rights, it is currently available for free on YouTube.

11. Why is the Students’ Health Home requesting an increase in government funding?
    The fight for government grants for the Students’ Health Home is not a recent one. There was a heated debate in the Legislative Assembly in 1959. The then Leader of the Opposition, Shri Jyoti Basu, argued that the Health Home
    Government for and against grants. Finally, Shri Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy signed the government directive for grants to Health Homes in 1962. Later, in 1982, another government grant was added. Until 2010-11, government grant increased in proportion to the scope of work of the Health Home. But from the financial year 2012-13, government grant almost disappeared. Therefore, a request is made to increase the government grant to two crore taka per year for the Students’ Health Home, which has been working tirelessly for the health of students as a complement to the government health infrastructure.
12. Who runs the Student Health Home?
    In addition to students, teachers, doctors, and social workers play an important role in the management of the Student Health Home. The regional center is managed by an elected committee consisting of representatives of students and teachers from each member school and school principals. The committee includes doctors, social workers, associate members of the home, and central representatives. Similarly, at the central level, the elected working committee and central editorial board manage the health home. At each level, the elected committee members perform this duty mainly out of a spirit of voluntary labor and social service. A small number of workers are employed as professionals at low salaries in the management of the central hospital of the health home.
13. Why is the festival of Homa celebrated?
    The Home Festival, which has been going on for a long time, is an important program for the welfare of students. Every year, the festival provides an opportunity for creativity to be expressed in a friendly and joyful atmosphere across the state. Be it group or individual performances, sports or cultural programs, it brings together children and teenagers from urban and remote villages on the same stage.

14. What are the functions of the Student Health Home?
    Treatment of students in modern hospitals
    Basic health Voluntary blood donation Mental health improvement program
    Life skill development program ‘hands-on’ health check-up training Publishing culture and sports awareness magazines
    Honoring and protecting the dignity of people involved in service work, including doctors, teachers, and others who stand by people in danger of natural disasters, and providing services to the general public at a fair price.
    Treatment, prevention of thalassemia disease, etc.
15. Is the Student Health Home a pioneer in blood donation?
    Today’s social blood donation is the result of the movement of the Students’ Health Home.
16. How was the Students’ Health Home established?
    The answer is in the movie ‘But Not a Story’.
17. What is the Brotherhood Collection?
    To meet the huge expenses of the Students’ Health Home, a Brotherhood Collection is held every year outside the general membership fee. A student or a girl collects money from people for the treatment of another unknown student or girl. The account of that money is written on a card. When the money collection is complete, the part containing the account of that card along with the money is deposited with the head teacher or the teacher in charge of the Health Home in that school. He gives the certificate to that student or girl. Then he collects the money and cards of everyone in the school and deposits them at the regional center of the Health Home. The account of each card is monitored. So, Brotherhood Collection gives the students their first lesson in not only standing by the people, but also in working selflessly and honestly. Long ago, this work was done by collecting money in earthen pots.
18. How to become a lifetime member and general member of the Students’ Health Home?
    Continuous participants in the activities of the home apply for these two types of membership in a specific form and have to deposit the specified amount. The final decision on membership is made in the meeting of the executive committee of the health home. However, this membership is only honorary and organizational. No additional benefits are available through it in terms of medical services. General membership has to be renewed every year.

19. What are the rules for renewing public membership?
    In each academic year, the total amount of the institution’s money, at the rate of 10 taka per number of students, must be deposited in cash or check at the relevant regional center or central office of the Students’ Health Home and a receipt must be collected.
20. How do students get treatment at the Student Health Home if they are sick?
    General medical advice is available at the clinics of the regional center. For this, the student will have to take the school identity card. There, the volunteers or staff of the health home will verify the membership and make a card. Then the general or, if necessary, specialist doctor(s) will examine him/her. Medicines will be provided from there at a cost of 5 taka per day. The students will have to bear the minimum cost prescribed for the examination. The Students’ Health Home does not bear the responsibility of any medicine or examination outside the prescription of the health home doctor. If the consultation of a specialist doctor is required, the student is sent to the main center or the nearest center with a referral card.
21. How will students be treated at the Student Health Home if they fall ill at night or on holidays?
    In that case, the student will have to be brought under the coverage of the nearest government health service. If the appropriate documentary evidence of the expenses incurred is submitted through the regional center of the health home, the health home will bear the prescribed portion of it (excluding the minor expenses that would have been incurred if the treatment had been done at the health home).
22. Why is a Student Health Home needed?
    The future of a nation lies in its students. In the turbulent world of third world countries, the need for an institution dedicated solely to their health is undeniable. Health Home is not an alternative or competitor to government health services, but a complement. It is not just a medical center, but the students’ good and bad, writing and studying, body and mind are all taken care of just like a home. That is why it does not have a hospital attached to its name, it has a home. In today’s rush of commercial medical services, Health Home’s exceptional step is to treat the common man at a fair price. Science, not profit, has the final say in Health Home.
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24. Published by Dr. Pavitra Goswami, General Secretary, on behalf of Students’ Health Home and printed by Pan Printers Kolkata-6.
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