26/09/2021
More at Masina Hospital.
In pursuit of its avowed goal to be "among the top medical facilities in city by 2025,” the nearly *120-year-old Masina Hospital* is introducing a slew of projects to upgrade, improve and expand its facilities. These plans include *an additional, exclusive-for-Parsis,* 10-bedded facility "before the end of this year.”
*Dr Vispi Jokhi, chief operating officer,* told Parsiana on September 6, 2021, "This whole (Parsi) facility will have all the features of a modern hospital with multi-function remote control automated and centrally monitored beds connected to the nursing station, bed head panels with dedicated gas and central suction facilities.” A technologically driven system of medical records with access to doctors on mobile apps and an Integrated Hospital Management Information System will be provided, stated Jokhi.
The facility will be situated opposite the existing Parsi Ward, and will offer multiple configurations — one executive suite, two single rooms, two twin-sharing rooms and one triple-sharing room.
*"We owe it to the community to give something extra,”* he noted. Charges in this area will be priced at "15 to 20% lower than other areas,” he stated. Added trustee Jimmy Parakh: "and there will be Parsi food.” "This ward was conceived having realized the superior clinical outcomes on account of the presence of multispecialty diagnostic and therapeutic facilities under one roof,” noted Jokhi in a detailed email to Parsiana on September 7.
*The Hospital has received permissions to conduct lung transplants from the relevant authorities, Jokhi noted.* "This is going to be a boon to those who suffered lung damage during the Covid pandemic,” he stated. The investment the Hospital made in the ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine will bear fruit, he said. "Through the ECMO system, support is provided to persons suffering from cardiac and respiratory issues,” states the Hospital’s website. "We have to be ready for the third wave of the pandemic as and when it comes,” he said. A planned executive health check-up for all sections of society includes "a component of mental health assessment added free of cost.”
An appeal for funds for refurbishment of operating theaters and rooms totaling approximately Rs 10 crores in May 2021 has already fetched approximately seven crore rupees, noted Jokhi. "The refurbishment of the three operating theaters is reaching completion,” he stated. Funds required for a new second phase of refurbishments are being worked out. "In the third phase, we may even add an additional floor to one of our existing buildings,” he noted.
*"We need good quality infrastructure to attract good consultants… We have now invited ex dean of Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals and director of Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital Dr Gustad Daver to chair the advisory board of the Hospital.* He has given great inputs in the refurbishment of the operating theaters… When completed, the Hospital will be able to conduct 15 to 20 surgeries a day,” stated Parakh. He is proud of the fact that for the financial year ending March 2021, the Hospital has "made marginal profits.”
The 270-bedded multispecialty Hospital offers primary, secondary and tertiary solutions in health care. Its facilities are spread out over multiple buildings within an eight-acre verdant complex. The building that crowns the driveway of the Hospital was gifted to the *founder Dr Hormasji Masina* by the famous merchant family of the Sasoon baronets and the land was purchased for Rs 25,000.
Jokhi acknowledged the following donors for supporting the extension to the Parsi Ward: Sir Homi Mehta Trust; Firoze Daroga Trust; executors of the estate of Banoo Damania; Sohrab and Dr Gustad Daver; Aspy Sohrab Gotla. Other general donors include: Banoo Daroga Trust; The Zoroastrian Charity Funds of Hongkong Canton and Macao; executors of the estate of Freny Parakh; Col Bharucha Trust; Parakh; estate of Aloo Polson Trust; executors of the estate of Rusi Shroff.
