The Stalwart

About 1,700 operational beds, 17 buildings, 1,500 OPD footfalls daily, 23 OTs, all spread across an area of 45,000 square meters — this is BYL Nair Charitable Hospital & TN Medical College for you. Situated in the heart of Mumbai, this Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika-run hospital is the hub for not only urban poor, but also for people from distant suburbs of Mumbai, many towns and villages of India.
When you step inside the campus of the entity, it completely absorbs you. It feels like a separate world altogether, completely capable of taking care of itself on its own, with limited resources.
In 1925, Dr. Anandrao Laxman Nair donated a
well-equipped hospital in the memory of his mother and named it after her as Bai Yamuna Bai Laxman Nair Charitable Hospital. Dr. Nair wanted to serve humanity without discrimination based on caste and creed. The 20-bed hospital rose to heights slowly but steadily.  
Nair Hospital is synonymous with quality care, a rare achievement for a municipal hospital. Not only the poor, the rich and the middle-class people also flock to this hospital for the kind of tender care it offers with a touché of world-class services.
The hospital is self-sufficient and is known to have pioneered many techniques and surgeries in its 83 years of standing. It is the first municipal hospital to have adopted robotic surgery in Mumbai. It also has the credit of the city’s first successful separation of a pair of conjoined twins, with patients being alive and healthy after the operation. The first cardiac surgery too was done at Nair Hospital in the city. Yet another feat and a highlight of the institution is, five of its departments are ISO certified, which the hospital claims no other municipal hospital has! The departments are of medical intensive unit, paediatric surgery unit, anaesthesia, forensic medicine and psychiatry.
Recently, the hospital added yet another building with 400 beds for its ever-increasing load of patients. The hospital has a grand staff of 3,000 and has 120 students in MBBS and 178 in its various postgraduate courses. Nair Hospital at any given time runs at a bed occupancy of 85 per cent!

Unique facilities at Nair 
Nair Hospital has as many as 41 departments catering to numerous specialities. However, the highlights of the hospital are some of its unique services like...
Forensic medicine
The department offers courses of undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma in forensic medicine, recognised by Medical Council of India/Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. It also does
medico-legal examinations in cases of trauma, victims and assailants in child and adult sexual offences, mechanical asphyxiation and poisoning. It also works on cases of sudden, unexpected, unattended or unexplained death from natural causes, unnatural deaths and deaths occurring in circumstances suggestive of foul play. Visits to scenes of incidents, when requested by the police, expert opinion on cases referred by the police and other investigating agencies/private individuals or agencies are also done. Examinations of skeletal material and expert evidence in courts of law are undertaken. Also, the department undertakes and encourages research activities.
Cancer Radiotherapy Centre
The department was started in May 1998 as a unique facility for treatment of cancer and is the only such set-up amongst all municipal hospitals in the city. The department offers radiotherapy to cancer patients on OPD basis. It has a modern cobalt teletherapy machine, simulator, 3D treatment planning system and brachytherapy facilities. It offers radiotherapy and chemotherapy to more than 2,000 cancer patients regularly at a reasonable cost. It also houses a surgical oncology OPD and a gynecological oncology OPD.

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