Swasth Kendra Roza Yakubpur
near Shiv Mandir, Gautam Budh Nagar, Roza Yakubpur, Jilla, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201001, India
Swasth Kendra Roza Yakubpur is a compact, community-centric secondary-care facility quietly serving the mixed farming and trading township of Yakubpur Roza on the outskirts of Kaushambi district, Uttar Pradesh. Operated by the not-for-profit Swasth Foundation, the 30-bed centre was established in January 2021 to give the largely agrarian population—numbering close to thirty-five thousand—an alternative to the long, expensive trip to Allahabad or Lucknow every time a child had high-grade fever or an elder needed dialysis.
The hospital sits on one acre leased from the gram sabha, its brick-red, single-story block blending with the surrounding mustard fields. A shaded outpatient verandah faces the kachcha village road, while a small ambulance bay to the rear links to a 2-km pucca approach track laid under MPLADS funds. Inside, the corridors are wide and naturally ventilated, a nod to post-COVID infection-control wisdom; solar panels on the roof feed 60 % of daytime energy needs, and an OHT plus underground reservoir maintains twenty-four-hour running water.
Medical services are built around an ‘80-15-5’ care pyramid: 80 % primary and preventive medicine delivered through daily OPDs (general medicine, paediatrics and gynaecology), 15 % secondary treatments (minor surgery, obstetric care, non-invasive cardiology, ophthalmology and two HDU beds), and 5 % tele-specialty linkages with higher centres in Kanpur and Lucknow via a 300-mbps fibre line. Radiology has 32-slice CT and digital X-ray; the one-theatre suite is fitted with LED lighting and anaesthesia scavenging; a three-bed labour room meets the JSY norms; and two dialysis chairs run two shifts daily for CKD patients, sparing them a 70-km commute. A modest six-bed ICU—eight when retractable partitions are drawn—is staffed 24×7 by physicians trained in ACLS and BLS.
The human face is probably its greatest asset. Two resident MBBS physicians rotate call, supported by six staff nurses, four ANMs, two radiographers and one lab technician. Visiting surgeons from the neighbouring Swasth Hub in Sarai Aquil come twice weekly; an optical unit manned by an optometrist dispenses spectacles at Rs 250-450 a pair. A tiny on-site pharmacy, tied to the UP Jan-Aushadhi scheme, keeps 240 essential generic formulations, while blood storage (on tie-up with district blood bank, Prayagraj) is licensed for LASA emergencies.
Swasth Kendra’s community engagement is woven into daily work. School health days screen for refractive errors, anaemia and deworming. The Arogya Sakhi network (28 ASHA-like volunteers) conducts doorstep TB and NCD follow-up using an Android app synchronised with the hospital’s simple HMIS. A bimonthly farmers’ camp takes the OPD out under the banyan tree on the village chaupal, carrying glucometers and colour doppler weighing less than two kilograms.
Outcomes, audited yearly, are encouraging: institutional deliveries rose from 38 % in 2021 to 62 % in 2023; TB treatment success is 89 %; and average referral distance has dropped from 65 km to 23 km. Yet scant postgraduate talent, erratic supply of third-generation antibiotics and the seasonal flooding of the Sai nullah on the road remain challenges the Swasth team negotiates every monsoon.
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- Published: August 8, 2025
