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MUMBAI, Oct 1: Reliance Industries (RIL) on Thursday opened its 82-bed state-of-the-art hospital at Lodhivali, near Patalganga. The hospital is dedicated to providing free, round-the-clock trauma care like stabilisation to accident victims on the accident prone Mumbai-Pune highway.
Inaugurating the hospital, RIL's chairman and managing director Dhirubhai Ambani said that this is one of the several steps in pursuit of Reliance's commitment to safety and care of workers and welfare of the people in the neighbourhood.
"This is not the place where money and profit is important. Every single life saved or a patient cured would give me more satisfaction than crores of rupees of profit", he added.
The hospital has a fully equipped trauma care centre--the only one of its kind between Navi Mumbai and Pimpri-Chinchwad, outside Pune. It has also tied up with the National Highway Authority to provide highway police with wireless service so as to provide quick response to accidents.
Named after Dhirubhai Ambani,the hospital has two fully equipped ambulances to rush victims to the hospital with minimum time elapsed after an accident.
Lack of adequate facilities on the Mumbai-Pune Highway, which has one of the highest accident rates averaging about 1,000 casualities every year-- prompted Reliance to set-up the hospital. The hospital is expected to go a long way in reducing the number of fatalities by providing prompt trauma care.
It has a dedicated team of specialists in all the major areas of medicine and surgery. The hospital is co-ordinated by Dr SM Shanbhag, Reliance Industries' medical advisor and SKP Matwankar is the director of the hospital (formerly the head of the department of hospital administration, AFMC, Pune).
The hospital forms a part of Reliance's initiatives to provide medical care facilities for the common people. During the year 1997-98, Reliance had made a substantial contribution to the Harkisondas Narotamdas Hospital, one of the oldest and the most reputed hospitals in Mumbai providingmedical support primarily to the middle class. It also has round-the-clock community medical centre and fully equipped ICU ambulance service at Motikhavdi near Jamnagar, where the Reliance refinery-cum-energy complex is coming up.
The function was attended, among others, by Mukesh Ambani, RIL executive director Hital R Meswani and Reliance Telecom chairman BK Symgal.
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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