V N Desai Hospital in Santacruz East
V N Desai Hospital in Santacruz East V N Desai Hospital in Santacruz East V N Desai Hospital in Santacruz East The hospital admits 25 to 30 patients daily with 800 to 1,000 OPD consultations across general medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics and ophthalmology.
Dr Nagle said there is space for three porta-clinics, which HIC will provide within the compound, and a handful of additional ambulances are being arranged for. However, a senior doctor at Bhabha Hospital said it has adequate staff to manage additional patients, so sending manpower there would be counterproductive. The staff, including nurses and doctors, will be split between V N Desai Hospital’s OPDs and Bhabha Hospital’s in-patient services.
Patients who require emergency admission will be sent to Bandra’s K B Bhabha Hospital — which has 436 beds — in an ambulance with a medical doctor.
She said this would leave her dealing with new doctors and a fresh paperwork system in the final days of pregnancy. At large, patients from Golibar and Bharat Nagar visit V N Desai Hospital for every major and minor ailment. Some of them are left feeling at sea as Bhabha Hospital would be a new facility to navigate.
For instance, Nikhat Pervaiz, a pregnant woman with BP with an expected delivery date next week, said she was first advised admission today, but then doctors told her to get admitted at Bhabha Hospital.