Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital & Research Centre here on Saturday.
located in South Mumbai, the hospital in its 90th year, has been rebuilt by Reliance Foundation into a most-modern 19-storey tower and two heritage wings. The foundation is headed by Nita Ambani.
Founded in 1925 as Mumbai’s first general Hospital, it has a rich history behind it. It witnessed the freedom struggle and the Second World War and one of the most frequent visitors then was Mahatma Gandhi.
The Hospital celebrated its silver jubilee with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as its Chief Guest, while lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was the guest of honour at its golden Jubilee celebrations. The PM will throw open the newly refurbished hospital at 5 pm.
This hospital has collaboration with John Hopkins, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Southern California. “This hospital has state-of-the-art operation theatres equipped with robotic surgery and on-line video conferencing enabling live consultations with specialists across the world, a hybrid cath-lab — India’s first for emergency heart operations, state of the art diagnostics facility with Asia’s first new generation CT scan,” Hospital’s spokesperson Tushar Pania said.
According to Pania, the hospital is also equipped with high-end Obstetrics & Gynaecology services and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a learning centre, adapting the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.
“The general wards of the hospital will have the same level of treatment for the citizens at the bottom of the pyramid. The hospital has an outreach program that currently covers over 310,000 individuals in the vicinity providing preventive and primary healthcare on a digital platform virtually free of costs,” the spokesperson said.
The hospital’s digital initiatives include RFID tags for patients, end-to-end digitization of medical records and real-time remote access to these records.
Reliance Foundation and its Chairperson Nita Ambani said she would be delighted to see the hospital being dedicated to Mumbai city at the hands of the Prime Minister.