Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata Explained

Belle Vue Clinic
বেলে ভিউ হাসপাতাল
Location:Dr. U. N. Brahmachari Street (Formerly Loudon Street), Elgin, Kolkata
Region:Kolkata
State:West Bengal
Country:India
Coordinates:22.5425°N 88.3549°W
Type:General
Standards:NABH
Emergency:Yes

Belle Vue Clinic is a NABH accredited for-profit private hospital chain that is one of the earliest hospitals established in Kolkata. The hospital is a part of the M.P Birla Group that owns and runs a large number of businesses and enterprises in the city. Priyamvada Devi Birla, wife of the late Madhav Prasad Birla, is the founder of this hospital. Belle Vue Clinic had the first ICCU in the private sector in 1971 and was the first centre to start renal transplants. It also became the first centre in eastern India to conduct tissue typing for Organ Transplant patients.

Overview

Belle Vue is centrally located in Kolkata. It is one of the larger multi-specialty hospitals in the city having a 241-bed capacity. The hospital opened in 1967 and was one of the earliest to be established in Kolkata and the greater eastern region of the country. Many distinguished personalities from West Bengal, from artists to politicians have, at various times, been admitted to Belle Vue for treatment. Some of them include the 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a former Member of parliament, and Somnath Chatterjee who died at 89 from cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Noted Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist Mahasweta Devi was also admitted to Belle Vue with a urinary tract ailment.[1] [2]

Belle Vue Clinic will set up two hospitals at Rajarhat a 164-bed general hospital and a 400-bed multispecialty facility.[3]

Award & accreditations

Departments

The hospital has the following departments:

Controversies

On 20 December 2018, a Kolkata metropolitan magistrate issued an arrest warrant against Pradip Tondon, the CEO of Belle Vue hospital. The warrant was issued as a result of the wife of a patient- who had died while undergoing treatment in Belle Vue Clinic- moving the West Bengal Medical Council against four doctors besides lodging a criminal case against those four doctors and also the hospital CEO. She alleged that her husband Sanjay Poddar, 51, had died on 7 September 2016, owing to medical negligence on part of the hospital.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Veteran politician and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away at 89 . 13 August 2018. thenewsminute.com. thenewsminute. 13 August 2018.
  2. Web site: মহাশ্বেতা দেবী হাসপাতালে, দেখতে গেলেন মমতা. 31 December 2015. deshebideshe.com. দেশেবিদেশে. bn. 31 December 2015.
  3. News: Belle Vue Clinic to invest Rs 500 crore to set up new hospitals in Bengal. The Economic Times Dec 23, 2020, 12:11 PM IST. 23 April 2021.
  4. News: ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITIONS. bellevueclinic.
  5. Web site: Arrest warrant against CEO of private hospital. 22 December 2018. timesofindia.indiatimes.com. timesofindia. 22 December 2018.