Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna on Friday inaugurated the Patanjali Emergency and Critical Care Hospital in Haridwar.
Speaking on the occasion, Ramdev said, “Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in the evolution of medical science.”
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Describing the initiative as a democratic healthcare system that ensures justice for patients, he announced that the hospital in Haridwar is only the seed and soon, a much larger version, even bigger than AIIMS, Apollo, or Medanta, will come up in Delhi-NCR.
Ramdev emphasised that this would not be a corporate hospital but a cooperative hospital, where service to patients will be the sole objective — not profit. The goal is to establish an integrative medicine system, offering holistic healing to patients.
He said that Patanjali had long contemplated adopting modern medical science only where absolutely necessary, particularly for emergencies. “This will present a new vision to the world—where modern medicine is used selectively, only in emergency care.”
He described the hospital as a confluence of three dedicated streams of medical practitioners: Ayurvedic vaidyas proficient in traditional Indian medicine, Modern medical doctors, and Naturopathy experts, supported by paramedical staff trained to operate state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment.
Ramdev stated that except for cancer surgeries – which are part of future plans, all other major surgeries can be performed in the hospital, including complex brain, heart, and spine operations. The hospital also offers MRI, CT Scan, X-ray, ultrasound, and pathological testing facilities, following global healthcare parameters.
Hundreds of patients will benefit daily from surgeries and critical care services. He added that only essential surgeries would be conducted, sparing patients from exorbitant hospital package costs. Ramdev acknowledged Balkrishna ‘s immense contribution to making this vision a reality.
Addressing the gathering, Balkrishna stated that only 20 percent of modern medical science is truly required in healthcare; if combined with 80 per cent traditional medicine, the global healthcare system can be restructured within four to five years.
He stressed that for critical care, modern medicine must be accepted, but for diseases considered incurable, Yoga and Ayurveda offer viable solutions.
“Today, medical knowledge has been divided into different pathies, but the goal was never to divide—it was to heal,” he said.
He emphasised that while most large hospitals assign doctors profit-driven targets, Patanjali has given its doctors only one target—healing patients. “Our mission is to make this initiative a model of healthcare service and a global example of the integrated medical system.”
The event was attended by Dr. Sunil Ahuja, Dr. N.P. Singh, Dr. Sadhvi Devpriya, Ms. Anshul Sharma, Ms. Parul Sharma, Dr. Sambhrant, Brigadier T.C. Malhotra, Dr. Anurag Varshney, and several department heads including Dr. Anil Das, Dr. Nitin Kumar Chanchal (Emergency) and Dr. Shweta Jaiswal, among others. Heads of various Patanjali units, principals, monks, and sadhvi sisters also attended the event.
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