Child care center

The renovated Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital (B. J. Wadia Hospital) in Parel will have 150 neonatal intensive care (NICU) beds for newborns, reported The Indian Express (IE) in its edition of May 12, 2016. Few hospitals in Bombay cater to newborns requiring critical care, with the Bombay Municipal Corporation run KEM (King Edward Memorial) and Sion Hospitals having 40 such beds each. With the reopening of the B. J. Wadia Hospital, the city will have 400 NICU beds to cater to the over 50,000 births every year, states the daily.
The structures of the Hospital and its sister institution, the Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity Hospital, in the Victorian style of architecture date back to the year 1929 and were in need of repairs and restoration, noted IE.
The B. J. Hospital, which offers a full spectrum of services for children, was where conjoined twins Riddhi and Siddhi were separated on January 17, 2014. On May 6, 2016 the two celebrated their third birthday in Ward No 21 which has become their permanent address since the surgery, reported Daily News and Analysis (DNA) on May 15, 2016. The little girls are children of a daily laborer from Panvel who works at a construction site and is unable to afford the cost of the treatment. The twins were conjoined at 180°, rendering it impossible for them to walk. They are now healthy though one of them requires further corrective surgery to stand on her feet. The hospital authorities have borne all their expenses, including for physiotherapy and speech therapy which they need.
"The twins are very popular in our Hospital. The entire staff knows about Riddhi-Siddhi. We are ready to bear all the expenses till they become fit,” Dr Mini Bodhanwala, chief executive officer at Wadia told DNA. She further explained: "When they were first brought to the hospital they shared a common uterus and urinary bladder, which the surgeons deftly cut into halves. Our team of 20 doctors, including pediatric surgeons, neonatologists, plastic surgeons, orthopedic surgeons and anesthesiologists, has been involved in the process. There is a different kind of bonding we have with these girls. We pray for their speedy recovery so that they can walk on their own feet.”
Asha Mahajan, matron of the Hospital told DNA, "These twins are not just patients for us, they are part of our family... Apart from nursing care, the administration has also appointed a fulltime caretaker who resides in the same room. If the children need any medical attention, the nursing staff and doctors are called immediately.”