Mahatma Gandhi
FounderFounder of Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital
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Mahatma Gandhi is the founder of Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital (1941)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare, palliative & cancer care and women & children from Prayagraj.
Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital
Born of the freedom struggle, Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital traces its roots to the Congress Dispensary Kamala Nehru ran in Swaraj Bhawan from 1931. Its foundation stone was laid by Mahatma Gandhi in 1939 on land donated by Jawaharlal Nehru, and the hospital he inaugurated in 1941 began with 40 beds, 28 of them free. Today the charitable trust hospital is the region's foremost cancer centre, running a regional cancer centre, multispeciality departments, a school of health sciences and a rural base hospital for the underserved.
Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital reports the following, on its own site:
- 500+ patients treated daily across 20+ specialties after 85+ years of service
- Started in 1941 with 40 beds of which 28 were free for the poor
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Prayagraj
- Founded
- 1941
- Press
- 3
References
- [1] “Founded and dedicated to the service of the nation by Mahatma Gandhi in 1941, KNMH is the multispeciality hospital in Prayagraj and the foremost charitable hospital in Uttar Pradesh” — Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital. Source
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