These were the words of Shri Rameshwardas Birla, the doyen of the Birla family, while forming the Bombay Hospital Trust, which was constituted on 06th September 1949, as a Public Charitable Trust, Registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950, with a main purpose of setting up hospitals.
Bombay Hospital Mumbai, the Flagship Hospital of the Trust was set up in 1952, with 450 beds, of which 150 beds were in the General Ward, for poor patients where no charges were levied for the bed, food, operation theatre or doctor’s charges. The free outpatient department was also set up, where free consultation was provided to the needy patients.
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