Dr. Arun Halankar
Medical care & Health
Health care today is at crossroads. It is proving beyond the reach of common man especially low and middle income group. It is estimated that around 10% to 12% of family income needs to be spent on taking care of emergency health care needs and age old problems. The emergency and specialty care is well beyond the reach of an average citizen. The awareness to create financial capability is shockingly lacking.
Shushrusha Citizens’ Co-operative Hospital is a unique experiment who offers total health care, including super-specialty care at affordable cost based on the principle of health care as a right without exploitation with self participation and health care which is ACCESSIBLE, AVAILABLE ON DEMAND, AFFORDABLE AND ACCOUNTABLE.
A path breaking venture in this regard was started to put up and run a hospital on co-operative basis managed by members who joined to form a Society, establish the hospital and run it for the people. Shushrusha Citizens’ Co-operative Hospital was thus set up about 40 years ago in Mumbai by late Dr. V. S. Ranadive. There are doctors’ co-operatives elsewhere. However Shushrusha is not a doctor’s co-operative. It is a hospital built through the organised efforts of citizens and equipped by them through their own funds, managed professionally on competent basis. This is the essence of co-operative movement in its true sense in providing medical care.
Initially this co-operative clinical care hospital had 80 beds and assets worth Rs. 28.71 lakhs. The membership was less than 1500. In the last 40 years the movement has grown in strength by the dedicated work of specialists, the management of the co-operative Society, the staff and workers. As of today the hospital can pride itself in having a six storey building with the bed capacity of 130 beds and an ICU with a capacity of 17 beds. The fixed assets are approximately Rs. 50 Crores and have thus grown substantially. The hospital invests Rs. 2.5 millions annually to equip itself with modern state-of-the-art technology.
022 2444 9161
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http://www.shushrushahospital.org/
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Ranade Rd, Dadar West, Dadar, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400028-
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http://www.shushrushahospital.org/
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