Haryana CM Lays Foundation Stone of Mata Amritanandamayi’s 2,000-bed Hospital in Faridabad

●        State-of-the-art facility, with dozens of super-speciality departments and centres of excellence

●        With 2,000 beds, to become the largest hospital in Delhi-NCR

●        Will include highly specialised multidisciplinary children's hospital, with all specialties and subspecialties for complete mother-child care

●        Entire block dedicated to original research, focusing on low-cost healthcare solutions

●        Strong charitable and subsidized component for providing quality care to the poor

●        Will be a teaching hospital as part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math’s No. 1-ranked private university

●        Green building: no carbon footprint, zero wastewater discharge, more than 45% solar-powered, use of environmentally friendly construction materials

Mumbai, 10^th May 2016 – Haryana Chief Minister Sri. Manohar Laltoday laid the foundation stone for the Mata Amritanandamayi Math’s new 2,000-bed Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre (Amrita Hospital) in Greater Faridabad, in the presence of Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Vice Chairman of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.

The Haryana Health Minister, Sri. Anil Vij; the Union Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, Sri. Krishnan Pal Gurjar; and a host of other dignitaries also graced the occasion, which marked the beginning of construction of the state-of-the-art healthcare facility spread across nearly 100 acres in Sector 88, Greater Faridabad.

Swami Amritaswarupananda welcomed the dignitaries and read a statement from Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), the world-renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader who is the hospital’s founder: “May this new hospital become an abode of service to humankind and a place of solace for the sick. We should never forget that we require two types of health -- external and internal. While external (bodily) health is no doubt important, internal health, which involves cultivating a sharing and caring attitude and compassion for the less fortunate, is no less crucial.”

Sri. Krishnan Pal Gurjar unveiled a scale model of the Amrita Hospital at the ceremony, while Sri. Anil Vij handed over the ceremonial first brick and tools to be used in construction.

“With a planned facility of 2,000 beds, the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre is set to become the largest hospital in Delhi-NCR,” said Sri. Satyananda Misra, the former Chief Information Commissioner of India, who will serve as the new hospital’s Executive Director.

Dr. Prem Nair, Medical Director, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi (the forthcoming hospital’s predecessor),said: “The new hospital at Faridabad will feature the complete range of specialities, super-specialties and Centres of Excellence. These will include a heart institute, an institute for high-precision cancer diagnosis and therapy, organ transplantation, an advanced centre for neurosciences and epilepsy, an institute for diabetes and metabolism, a centre for liver and biliary diseases, an institute for minimally invasive and robotic surgery, a burn unit, a centre for bone and joint diseases, an advanced centre for lung diseases and transplantation, an institute for physical medicine and rehabilitation, a centre for spinal disorders, an advanced laboratory for molecular diagnostics,

an advanced centre for medical imaging, and interventional radiology, among others. It is our goal to have most, if not all, of these facilities provided and rapidly scaled with the new hospital’s launch.”

Amrita Hospital at Faridabad will also have a strong focus on mother-and-child healthcare. The new hospital will include a highly specialised multidisciplinary Children's Hospital with maternal and foetal medicine and all paediatric subspecialties, including paediatric cardiology, heart surgery and transplantation, rheumatology, endocrinology, pulmonology, neurosciences, paediatric genetics, gastroenterology, paediatric orthopaedics and paediatric and foetal surgery. Added Dr. Prem Nair: “It’s important to have a place where complete medical assistance and treatment for mother and child, including advanced paediatric medicine, can be attained under one roof. This is something lacking in many localities throughout India, as many private hospitals do not see mother-child care as monetarily sustainable.”

Dr. Nair pointed out that since the inception of the Amrita Hospital, Kochi, in 1998, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math has provided totally free medical care to more than 41 lakh [4.1 million] patients, and, during that time, MAM has provided more than Rs. 536.33 crores [$85 million US] in charitable medical care. He said that the new Amrita Hospital would continue the Mata Amritanandamayi Math’s tradition of providing a strong presence of charitable and subsidized care.

Said Sri. Satyananda Mishra: “The new hospital will dedicate an entire block to conducting original research, particularly with a focus on finding low-cost solutions to healthcare problems to make medical care more affordable to the common man.”

Thehospital is being constructed to be GRIHA- and LEED-certified: a green building, with no carbon footprint, zero wastewater discharge, and to be powered eventually by more than 45% solar power. Construction materials used in the project will also be environmentally friendly. More than 70% of the campus acreage is planned as a green area filled with local varieties of trees, plants and shrubs and water bodies.

Amrita Hospital, Kochi, is part of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math’s No. 1-ranked private university, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), and Dr. Nair said the Delhi NCR hospital would become a teaching hospital under the same university system.