KEM plans expansion in specialised services

Pune-based King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital plans to expand its specialised services as it enters its centenary year.
An ultra modern 11-storey building will soon come up on the premises with special units.

A discount of 10% on laboratory investigation in outdoor patient departments will be offered to all patients for a month from October 4 this year to mark the occasion.

Starting with just four maternity beds on October 4, 1912, the hospital, which has always been a registered charitable trust has come a long way.

At present it has over 600 beds with multi-specialty facilities. It provides services in all major areas like general medicine, paediatrics, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, anaesthesia, pathology, blood banking and the full range of imaging. It also has a well-equipped critical care section.

Director of the hospital, Dr Kurus Coyaji, told reporters on Thursday that the KEM is dedicated to giving the best medical services at affordable prices to the common man.

“We have been constantly upgrading our facilities and are planning to come up with more special units in the near future,” he added.

Renowned paediatrician and director of paediatrics department, Dr Anand Pandit who has been with the hospital for 38 years, said KEM has one of the most developed systems for treating children.

“In the centenary year, we plan to start nutrition clinic, immunisation clinic, paediatric endocrinology and paediatric pulmonology,” he said. 

A hepatobiliary and liver transplant programme, paediatric and adult thoracic surgery and a centre for urinary incontinence in children too will kick off.

To celebrate the centenary, informative sessions and health camps for the public, women and children will be held throughout the year. For general physicians and specialists, the hospital will organise workshops, seminars and conferences.