Surgical Neurology at the Bombay Hospital, Mumbai

Abstract

Bombay Hospital Trust started as a philanthropic organization for quality patient care for the common man in the new spirit of independent India in 1949 under the chairmanship of Mr. Rameshwardas (R.D.) Birla. The amalgamation of the Singhania trust and Marwari trust within the new entity resulted in the formation of a hospital building (presently called the Old Wing) located at the marine lines in South Bombay (now Mumbai), which was inaugurated by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, then home minister of the new Indian Republic in 1951. Soon thereafter, the neurosurgery service was started at the hospital by the first neurosurgeon in West India, Prof. Ram Ginde in 1953.