Parsee General’s 100th

The executive committee members of The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital join me in informing you that on March 27, 2011 our Hospital entered its 100th year of caring for our sick and less fortunate community members. Having reserved 53.6 percent of its total bed capacity of 222 beds for the poor and deserving members of our community, the Hospital provides a substantial volume of charity care. The total cost of providing free and subsidized medical care during last year was approximately Rs 8.42 crore, of which the cost of free medicine to the in-patients and OPD (out patients department) patients was Rs 107.20 lakh and for diagnostic and specialized investigation services for such patients was Rs 124.82 lakh.

Our free patients do not pay for bed, medicines, food, and all diagnostic investigations including X-ray, pathology, sonography, ICU (intensive cardiac unit) care, etc. Even investigations and tests done outside the Hospital, like CT scan, MRI, etc are paid for by the Hospital. The Hospital is able to sustain such a large volume of charity care to the poor only due to the continuing financial support from kind, generous and concerned members of the community. The Hospital management would be grateful if you would share our burden of caring for the sick by donating generously either on­line, through our website: www.bdpetit parseegeneralhospital.org, in person or by post. Your donations, big or small, will be used for the general purposes of the Hospital and in particular for providing medicines and diagnostic services to the poor, upgrading medical equipment or procuring new equipment in our efforts at improving the quality as well as the range of medical services offered.

The Hospital has four operation theaters with state-of-the-art instruments and a well equipped 16-bed ICU with latest equipment including ventilators and round the clock services of well trained, postgraduate intensivist/registrars as well as trained nursing staff. Besides, the Hospital has a well equipped physiotherapy department, pathology laboratory, sonography cum radiology laboratory, as well as state-of-the-art component level blood bank, all providing round the clock services.

The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital is completing a century

The 60 elegant air-conditioned/non air-conditioned rooms with attached bathrooms open out on a lovely broad verandah of the heritage building overlooking a beautiful verdant and flowering garden resplendent with old trees where patients can enjoy a rare luxury in Bombay — tranquility and fresh air! Patients occupying these high-end, elegant and well appointed rooms get in return the services of the most renowned consultants in various fields as also resident doctors and caring nursing staff round the clock. Apart from offering one of the most exquisite ambiances in a hospital in South Bombay, they also get the added satisfaction that, in a small indirect way, they help the Hospital in looking after free/subsidized patients at no extra cost to them, and that too at much less than is charged by other hospitals. We trust that our honorary doctors and the more affluent members of our community will make use of these high end facilities and rooms and increase their occupancy.

On an occasion such as this, let us recall the words of Sir Winston Churchill: "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

HOMA D. PETIT

President, The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital