New state-of-the-art facility to meet surging demands for patient care, and accommodate the future growth in clinical care, research and education…

Mumbai – For over 56 years, Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital has provided the best in specialized care to hundreds of thousand of patients as they've grown through the years.To ensure future generations of people from across Mumbai and around the country continue to have access to the highest quality of medical care; after several years of a steady growth Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital is on the threshold of a quantum leap into the future.

The “Telemedicine Department” was commissioned at Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital on August 29, 2006 by Mr. Priyam Jhaveri- Vice Chairman,. The Hospital is one of Mumbai’s premier health care institutions and has now joined the group of selected top hospitals of India using this most modern technology to deliver health care services to remote hospital at Silvassa (U.T.).The Chief administrator of Silvassa – Daman Mr. R. K. Verma on occasion of the inauguration spoke to Mr. Jhaveri and thanked him for selecting the Civil Hospital, Silvassa for the tie-up. Many doctors of national and international repute are attached to Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital and their varied expertise would benefit the patients

Telemedicine is a facility by which patients at a remote village or hospital can have direct communication with all the multi-specialty doctors nationally as well as internationally via the T.V. / computer screen. The patients can now consult with doctors at the hospital without having to visit them personally. The medical fraternity at Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital can diagnose the disease by examining patient by tele-stethoscope and other such high end equipment as well as provide guidance for treatment at the remote centres or at the Hospital.

The Indian Health Service is moving rapidly in deploying state-of-the-art technology to bring primary care and specialty medicine to remote locations to reduce geographic barriers between remote, smaller communities and health care providers. For example, clinical engineers are now equipping small remote villages in interior Maharashtra and other surrounding areas with tele-medicine systems to provide transmission of digital images of patients’ ear drums, skin conditions, and even tonsils to distant health care providers. Tele-medicine also enables small rural communities to communicate during emergencies with hospital consultants through video conferencing when transportation is difficult or impossible (especially in the current road conditions & distances).

For decades, Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital has been committed to providing people in the community and throughout the state and country with the best health care possible. And to this day, Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital expertise in family-centered patient care, combined with research, education and the development of tertiary care specialties, are virtually unmatched in Mumbai

This public - private partnership spearheaded by the management team of Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital is an extension of its expansion plans to meet the requirements of modern medicine.. Dr. Balabhai Nanavati Hospital, to realize & fulfill social obligation towards quality patient care, in the coming months is planning to open more such satellite telemedicine centers.

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