HINDUJA HOSPITAL

  Hinduja Hospital (Mahim)

 

Shri Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja

The Founder

Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, Founder, Hinduja Group and Hinduja Foundation believed from his early childhood that health and education were the fundamental rights of each individual.

This belief led him to establish the "National Health and Education Society" in 1954. He would visit the hospital devotedly every day to meet the patients, enquire about their needs and ensure that they were comfortable and received adequate treatment.

He would pay particular attention to the poor and the needy. His method of screening patients to qualify for free treatment was quite simple.

He would make the patients declare before the deities of his or her Guru and the Almighty that they did not have the means to pay the bills, and provide them with free medical care. Hinduja Hospital continues to fulfil his dream of providing world-class medical care to all sections of society.

P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre, is an ultra modern tertiary care hospital, internationally acclaimed for it’s world class medical services with 381 inpatient beds including 57 critical care beds, covering all specialties and diagnostics. The inpatient services are complemented with a day centre, outpatient facilities and an exclusive centre for health check of executives.
Behind this mission to assimilate the finest in medical and surgical talent and technique, lies a 58 years old dream of our great founder, Shri Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, who laid the foundation of the National Hospital, way back in 1951. It has, over the years, systematically worked on people, processes and technology to deliver quality healthcare.
It was the 1st hospital to pioneer the concept of “full time consultants”. Today it has 86 such committed doctors. This approach of permanent association, coupled with education support, has earned laurels for both the doctors and the hospital. It’s doctors have been awarded prestigious awards like the Dr.B C Roy award, Medical Association awards, Order of the British Empire, Young Scientist Award and many others. It has its own Nursing College, which graduates 30 well-trained nurses every year. The graduates from this college are respected across the industry for their skills.
The hospital has laid special emphasis in developing processes to deliver reliable patient care. A testimony to this is the fact that Hinduja Hospital was the first multi disciplinary tertiary care hospital to have been awarded the prestigious ISO 9002 Certification from KEMA of Netherlands for Quality Management System. Hinduja Hospital’s fully automated Laboratory Medicine Department is the First Hospital Laboratory in India to be Accredited by the College of American Pathologists. The department participates in International Quality Control programme conducted by the College of American Pathologists, WHO & National Quality Control Programme where it has achieved and maintained a high ranking consistently for a number of years. Hinduja Hospital was recently awarded the IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj Award for Quality.
The hospital has been at the vanguard of technology by acquiring new state-of-the-art diagnostic & therapeutic equipment. The new technologically sophisticated Operation Theatre complex is the 1st in many aspects in the country and can match the best in the world. These have been designed keeping in mind, the surgeon, anesthetist, nurses and other OT personnel’s working requirements through ergonomically designed, proper ventilated, advance surgical environment, reducing the chances of infection during surgery to the minimum. The new operation theatres follow the principal of Guided Air Flow mechanism, a patented technology.
It was the first Hospital in India to acquire the Gamma Knife - gold standard in Radio Surgery, a non-invasive neurosurgical tool, Twin Speed MRI, a revolutionary technology in neurovascular and cardiology imaging. The Oncology Services are holistic & complete with the addition of the Linear Accelerator with Multileaf Collimator (MLC) & Micro MLC. The Nuclear Medicine has also acquired the Gamma Camera / PET Scan, which redefines the treatment in cancer management, orthopaedics, neurology and cardiology. Hinduja Hospital has recently acquired the GE Volume Light Speed CT, which captures images of the heart in just 5 heartbeats at the speed of light. To enhance the specialized services in Invasive Cardiology, the hospital has installed the GE-INNOVA 2000 Cath Lab machine for better visibility of blood vessels, in the procedures carried out. The Radial Lounge, First of its kind in India, is a unique concept for carrying out Coronary Angiographies and Angioplasties procedure. In support of the Nephrology services at the hospital, a new state-of-the-art AKD (Advance Kidney Dialysis) Department has been setup to provide the best of care for dialysis patients.

History

The situation faced by Bombay in the aftermath of India's partition was grim due to the influx of refugees and sanitation in the crowded camps was poor.
Health problems had multiplied. It was beyond the ability of city's public hospitals to cope with the situation. Provision of essential health care facility to the ailing poor thus became the need of the hour.
It was at this crucial juncture that a band of Sindhi philanthropists under the leadership of late Shri Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja came forward to extend a helping hand.

The Beginning

Mr. Parmanand Hinduja pooled resources and set-up an outdoor clinic the 'Seth Deepchand Gangaram Hinduja Health Care' in December 1951 in Dubash House, a rented building on Cadell Road (now Veer Savarkar Marg), to cater primarily, to the needs of the refugees.
A few motivated doctors from the Sindhi community formed the core of the medical faculty. It had elementary outpatient facilities and its own dispensary. Just a year later, in February 1953,the 'National Hospital' came into being with 30 beds; the bed strength gradually went upto 70.
To make the hospital's management broad based, it was handed over to the National Health & Education Society after the society was formed and registered under the Public Trusts Act.

The Growth

In 1956 the society purchased a plot of land opposite Dubash House and the National Hospital was shifted in 1963 to a new two storeyed building constructed on this plot (now called the East Building) with 100 beds; in addition, expanded outpatient facilities were made available.
It was soon realized that the 100-bed hospital would not be adequate for a major modern health care and Medical Research Centre, which was the ultimate aim. Accordingly, Dubhash House, along with the land on which it stood was purchased in 1967.
Unfortunately, Shri Parmanand Hinduja passed away in 1971 before concrete steps could be taken to implement his ideas. Thereafter his sons carried forward the legacy of their father, of translating his dream into a reality.
In 1976 the society renamed the National Hospital as the "P.D.Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre" as a humble tribute to the Founder's pioneering efforts to bring modern health care within reach of the common man.

The New Hospital

The family soon took steps to create a tertiary care hospital. The main goal was to blend technology with human skills and ingenuity by providing state of the art equipment, assembling a team of talented and committed professionals and creating an atmosphere comparable to what exists in foreign countries to dispense quality health care.
The Hinduja brothers entered into a collaborative arrangement with the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the oldest and largest of the teaching hospitals associated with the Harvard Medical School for assistance in planning, equipping and staffing the new complex.
Detailed plans were formulated to construct a 16 storeyed building on the newly purchased plot and it was also decided to add two more floors to the east building.
1986 was a landmark in the history of the Hinduja National Hospital. On August 16th, the dream was realized with the commissioning of the new 300-bed tertiary care hospital complex. The project funded by the family, had state-of-the-art equipment and was staffed by a team of brilliant doctors, many of them with foreign qualifications and experience.
The concept of full time consultants, which was new to Mumbai, was introduced against odds, while maintaining the pluralistic pattern of hospital-based, visiting and part-time consultants. The principle that all payments to consultants should be through the hospital was also laid down.
In 1991 a new plot of land close to the east building was purchased and two new buildings were constructed to accommodate the nursing school and provide residential quarters for doctors, nurses and nursing students thus making available additional space for medical activities in the east building.