Indian Naval Hospital Ship, INHS Sandhani was on Monday commissioned at Naval Station Karanja at Uran in Raigad district at the hands of Vice Admiral Girish Luthra, Flag-Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command.
Surgeon Vice Admiral Anup Banerji, DGMS (Navy) delivered the welcome address and Mrs. Preeti Luthra, President NWWA, Western Region, unveiled the commissioning plaque of the hospital. The Commissioning Warrant was read by the first Commanding Officer of the hospital, Surgeon Captain HBS Chaudhry.
With the steady expansion of Naval Station Karanja, over the last few decades, a need for a dedicated multi-specialty hospital was felt, in order to provide quality healthcare to more than 8,000 naval personnel and their dependents, who reside at the Karanja naval station.
The commissioning of this 30-bedded hospital, with a team of specialists in the fields of Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anesthesia and Dental Sciences; will not only improve the quality and speed of healthcare delivery, but also obviate the need for patients, including those with critical ailments and emergency cases, to travel by sea to Mumbai.
