AMRI Hospitals

AMRI Hospitals
The Advanced Medical Research Institute, Dhakuria. Feb. 2014
Geography
Location	West Bengal Odisha, India Bangladesh
Services
Emergency department	Yes
History
Founded	1996 at Kolkata, India
Links
Website	Official website

AMRI Hospitals is a private hospital chain which is headquartered at the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India and it is owned by the Emami & Shrachi group. The company's head office is in Kolkata, West Bengal, with 6 branches in the Indian State of West Bengal, 1 at Bhubaneshwar in the Indian State of Odisha and 6 branches in Bangladesh.AMRI Hospitals has 4 centres in Kolkata - Dhakuria, Salt Lake, Mukundapur and Kalighat.

AMRI Hospitals was co-founded by the Emami in 1996, two of Kolkata's developing groups, in a partnership with the Government of West Bengal to expand health coverage options for consumers. The AMRI hospital is a center for training students from the Institute of Radiology and Medical Imaging, and it is ISO 9001:2000 certified.

On 24 October 2013, the Supreme Court of India ordered AMRI Hospitals to pay compensation for medical negligence at their hospital in Kolkata that led to the death of Anuradha Saha, a US-based child psychologist, on 28 May 1998. The court described the standard of medical care at the hospital as "abysmal", and wrote that the court's decision was intended as a "deterrent and a reminder" to the medical community. The compensation, which with interest came to Rs. 11.41 crore (US$1.86 million in 2013), was the highest ever awarded by an Indian court for medical negligence.

A fire at the hospital occurred at Dhakuria in South Kolkata in the early morning of 9 December 2011. The fire was due to alleged negligence, which caused flammable substances kept in the basement of the building to catch fire after a short circuit in the electrical system. It is reported that 95 people, including members of the staff, died due to asphyxiation. Six board members of the hospital have been arrested on the charges of alleged culpable homicide. The license of the hospital was revoked after the incident.