Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba had graciously gifted the Nursing College on 1st Sep 2008. In the last 13 years, 330 highly skilled nurses have passed out of the college till date. 469 students have been enrolled in the nursing college so far. Till now the Nursing College has been functioning within the building of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust has taken a decision to provide a separate building for the Nursing College and the same was announced on 23rd November 2021 during the Bhagawan’s birthday celebrations. Today the 13th December 2021, saw the Bhoomi pooja for the Nursing College building being performed. Sri Rathnakar RJ, Managing Trustee, SSSCT Sri Naganand, Trustee, SSSCT, Dr. Shekhar Rao, Director, SSSIHMS, Whitefield, Sri Nagesh Dhakappa, ex state president Sri Sathya Sai Organization, Sri Sundar, Swaminathan, Director, Sri Sathya Sai Media Center; Sri Manohar Shetty, Advisor, Sri Vinay Kumar, Trustee, Sri Sathya Sai Trust, Karnataka were present for the pooja along with staff and students of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. The Pooja started at 9:05 AM at the muhurta time with Divine Blessings of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba varu. Divine Message Outlining the purpose of Nursing College "Swami willed that there should be a sufficient number of trained nursing personnel and therefore training facilities for nursing personnel will be established. It is easy for doctors to perform operations. The real difficulty is in taking care of the patients after the operations. It is easy to slice vegetables. But, to prepare a tasty dish out of that is very difficult. This task of “cooking” is done by the nurses. If there is no good nursing, even the operation may be a failure. Therefore in order to train a good group of nursing personnel, training facilities are being provided. All those who are pure-hearted and filled with a spirit of service, may approach the Director for undergoing training to serve in the hospital. They need not incur any expense. The entire training is free. Elsewhere, if people want to undergo such training, they have to pay all kinds of fees. Here nothing will be. charged. Everything will be provided free. Only, we want persons with pure hearts to join the course. Today we have quite a large number of people working in our hospital. But, there is more work to be done because of the ever-growing number of patients seeking relief. Hence, we need many more nursing personnel. We are asking for nurses not for Swami’s sake but for the sake of the nation." - Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Poornachandra Auditorium, Guru Pournima message, 14 Jul 1992 #NursingCollege #Service #SSSIHMS