Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital

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Name :

Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital

Address  :

1, Hashimpur Road

Town  :

Allahabad

State  :

Uttar Pradesh

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

211002

Phone  :

91 532 2466666

Fax  :

91 532 2466673

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

knmh_jkgupta@yahoo.co.in
Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Cardiology
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • Dermatology
  • ENT
  • General Surgeon
  • Gynaecology
  • Neurologist
  • Obestetrician/Gynecologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Pathology Lab
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 306

Other Facilities

  • Pathology
  • X-Ray
  • CT/MRI
Description
The Hospital has evolved into a multidisciplinary tertiary care centre with moderate facilities Specific emphasis is laid on Reproductive Health detection treatment amp research in Cancer The Hospital has 320 employees of which the clinical team comprises 30 eminent and distinguished Doctors 25 Resident Doctors 120 paramedical staff and 145 administrative support staff The Hospital is today equipped with 306 beds catering to different disciplines Of these 215 are basically free beds for the poor and needy

History
Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital Allahabad has been an edifice of selfless service to humanity The Institution can be justly proud of the years of providing succour to the poor downtrodden and under privileged suffering humanity The Hospital has served not only the people of Allahabad but practically most parts of Northern India and adjoining countries like Nepal and Bhutan

Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital traces its roots to the Freedom Struggle when in the year 1931 Smt Kamala Nehru converted some rooms in her ancestral house Swaraj Bhawan into a Congress Dispensary

This mini Hospital had both indoor and out door facilities manned by patriotic doctors and other paramedical staff Presiding over it all was Kamala herself a woman frail in health but indomitable in spirits

She gave to this institution her time labour and above all compassion till her untimely death in 1936

After her sad demise Mahatma Gandhi and other national leaders like Pt Madan Mohan Malviya Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru Dr BC Roy Shri Uma Shankar Dikshit and others took it upon themselves to see that the work for which she made herself responsible was carried on even after her death Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi amp other Dignitaries at the opening of Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital on February 28 1941
Gandhiji laid the foundation stone of this Hospital on Nov 19 1939 and later inaugurated it on Feb28 1941 the death anniversary of Kamalaji

KNM Hospital in fact was built as a national tribute to the memory of Kamalaji who was a living monument of selfless service sacrifice and compassion for fellow human beings

To start with it was a fledgling unit with just 40 beds of Obstetrics amp Gynaecology out of which 28 were free The first Medical Superintendent of the Hospital was DrMrs Satyapriya Mazumdar
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