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Phone
  
020 2616 3391

Founded
  
1959

Ruby Hall Clinic

Location
  
Pune, Maharashtra, India

Address
  
40, Sassoon Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411001

Hours
  
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Ruby Hall Clinic is a prominent hospital in Pune, India. It is a 550-bed hospital facility with a staff of 150 consultants, 500 panel doctors and 1400 paramedical staff and was accredited by National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) in November 2009.

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History

Ruby Hall Clinic was established in 1959 by Dr. K B Grant. In 1966, Ruby Hall Clinic was converted from a private institution owned by Dr. Grant to a public charitable trust, Poona Medical Foundation. It was later converted to the Grant Medical Foundation in 2000, of which Dr. Grant was the chairman and managing trustee.

The Clinic in collaboration with Kalyani Group announced to launch a special Institute for Research for Prostate Cancer.

Ruby Hall has been awarded a Best Healthcare Brand 2016 by the ET.

The CEO of Ruby Hall has been awarded among the top 25 Living Legends of Healthcare in India.

Facilities

Ruby Hall Clinic has state of the art facilities in cardiology, cardiac surgery, neurology, nuclear science center, diagnostic center, intensive care units, a blood bank and cancer unit.In 1999, the Hospital ranked first in India for having the most number of ICU beds i.e. 76, leaving behind other renowned hospitals like Bombay Hospital, Jaslok Hospital, Hinduja Hospital, etc. The number of ICU beds available now has increased to 130.

Controversies

Despite being a leading hospital in Pune, Ruby Hall Clinic has received many complaints and has had several accusations of medical negligance. Aman Galande, a 19 year old who was admitted for pneumonia died in Ruby Hall Clinic's ICU in Aug 2013 due to alleged negligence in treating him. Following this incident, an angry mob vandalized the hospital. Dr. Lamkhede who was admitted in ICU for rapidly deteriorated health following his first chemotherapy round administered in Ruyb Hall Clinic, died of cardiac arrest caused by endotracheal suctioning. His family too, accuse the staff for his mistreatment on multiple occasions and his death on June 28, 2014. Urmila Santosh Jagdale (Ojhar, Pune District, Maharashtra) lost her eye sight due to an inappropriate amount of anaesthesia administered during a (possibly needless) surgery at Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune on December 22, 2008. Pune District Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum found Ruby Hall Clinic negligent and asked to pay INR 1,150,000 to her family in compensation. A criminal case was filed on 31 August 2016 against Ruby Hall Clinic for causing death of Nandakumar Hiwarkar(age 42) in 2015. His brother also claims cheating by the hospital by serving them a staggering INR 35,00,000 bill. Ruby Hall Clinic is contesting that this complaint is malicious. Advocate Ashutosh Srivastava recently filed a police complaint under offence of murder with the Koregaon police station, alleging negligence and cruelty, leading to the death of his 54-year-old mother. Ashok N. Kulkarni died on 21st Sept, 2015. His daughter Anjali Kulkarni claims severe delay in responding to her father deteriorating medical condition and improper medications while hospitalized as the primary cause of his death Suman D. Mane et al. filed a consumer complaint(Case No. CC/11/96) of medical negligance with Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal and alleged that Late Dattajirao Balwantrao Mane's death on Nov 11, 2009. Dattajirao Mane had a bypass surgery and his kin alleged that incompetence and negligence post-surgery led to his demise. This case was dismissed as the complainants failed to show substantial evidence of negligance.

References

Ruby Hall Clinic Wikipedia