17-storey super speciality hospital at Parel

In four months, Global Super Specialty and Transplant Centre will come up close to five-star ITC Grand Central and house 400 beds, with world-class surgeons dropping by for consultation

A 17-storey, super specialty hospital is yet another fancy structure scheduled to become part of Parel's rapidly-changing skyline.
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Formerly a working-class area housing mill workers, Parel is now home to spiffy commercial towers and housing complexes with private cricket pitches.



Global Super Specialty and Transplant Centre, the global hospital chain's first western India project (it has a presence in Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru) aims to plug the vacuum for super specialty centres in Mumbai, with a focus on gastroenterology, liver, kidney, minimal access surgery, cardiology, trauma, orthopedics, neurosciences, oncology, digestive and urological diseases, multi-organ transplantation and stem cell therapy.
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Still under construction, the hospital is coming up close to the five-star ITC Grand Central, opposite Shirodkar High School.

Says Dr Amit Maydeo, gastroenterologist and endoscopist, who is on the board of directors, "The hospital has an apt address since the entire stretch on which the construction plot stands is known as Hospital Avenue.

The area has a cluster of hospitals KEM, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, and Tata Memorial are all in the vicinity."

Construction is expected to be complete in four months. "Phase I of construction will see 11 floors and 200 beds. On completion, the hospital will measure 17 floors, and house 400 beds," says Dr Maydeo.

Incidentally, Dr Mohamed Rela, one of the top liver transplant surgeons from King's College Hospital, London, and now, Head of the Department for Institute of Liver, Pancreas Diseases and Transplantation, Global Hospitals & Health City Group in Chennai, is expected to work out of the Mumbai centre periodically.
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Dr Rela had flown in from London to treat the late Bharatiya Janata Party politico Pramod Mahajan in 2006, at PD Hinduja Hospital when he was battling for his life after being shot by brother Pravin Mahajan.