The long queues before Ananta Beuray Ayurvedic Asthichikitsa evasadan speak volume about the clinic’s popularity and obviously its ractitioner Prataprudra Beuray, who is better known as Dev Babu. Beuray successfully treats broken and fractured bones and does not demand any money. At 70, he renders selfless social service and has carved a niche for himself.
Since the treatment prescribed by him has been yielding good results, people from far and near throng Kulailo, about 7 km from here. All he uses in treatment are some medicinal plants, bamboo sticks and cotton. He claims that all his patients, irrespective of age, get cured within a span of one to four months. There have been instances, when patients from the SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack got shifted to Kulailo for treatment in his hospital. Besides the treatment offered, popular orthopaedic oil Ananta Narayan Taila is also prepared in the hospital out of medicinal plants like sunaregeda, sabarmathia, hadakankuli and arjun to treat fractured bones. Except for material charges, Beuray does not demand anything from his patients.
His five generations, who were brought to this place from Khurdha by the then king of Athagarh estate Raghunath Bebarta Patnaik, were engaged in the work and his younger son Girish also has been assisting Dev Babu. Before the hospital was built, Beuray used to see his patients on the premises of a school. As more and more patients got cured with his treatment, donations poured in for a regular hospital and that is how the 'Anant Beuray Ayurvedic Asthi Chikitsa Sevasadan' came into being. Beuray has built Hanumanjew, Raghunathjew and Tulasidas temples inside the hospital campus too.
Beura bagged a number of awards, including State level Dhanwantari ward 2005, Baidyanath Ayurvedic Award, Dabur India limited, Baidya Award and Gopabandhu Sahitya Sansad Award, 2004 among others. He has also been actively involved with several educational and literary institutions here. However, neither his work nor his hospital has been able to get any attention from the State Government.
