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Wockhardt Hospitals

Wockhardt Hospitals
Public
Industry Healthcare
Founded 1989
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Key people
Zahabiya Khorakiwala, MD
Anupam Verma, President
Number of employees
2,500+
Website www.wockhardthospitals.com

Wockhardt Hospitals are one of the tertiary care, super speciality healthcare networks in India offering healthcare services. The chain of hospitals is owned by the parent company Wockhardt Ltd., India's 5th largest Pharmaceutical and Healthcare company with a presence in 20 countries across the globe. Wockhardt hospitals, originally called First hospitals and Heart Institute, were one of the early movers among corporate health-care chains in India. The company was established in 1989 and it started its first operations with a medical center in Kolkata, 1989 and a heart hospital in Bangalore two years later. Today the company has its presence across India with 9 multi speciality hospital networks.

Wockhardt Hospitals was incorporated on 28 August 1991 under the Companies Act, 1956 as a public limited company. The Company was originally named First Hospitals and Heart Institute Limited. On 11 September 2000 the name was changed to Wockhardt Health Sciences Limited and subsequently on 19 October 2000 the name was changed to Wockhardt Hospitals Limited.

South Mumbai

Situated at Mumbai Central, in the heart of the city’s business district, the New Age Wockhardt Hospital in South Mumbai is a 21-storeyed tertiary care hospital. It focuses on Critical Care and also has a Heart Care Institute in its facility.

The New Age Wockhardt Hospital is the first fully wireless hospital in Asia, first wireless ECG management system in India, first paperless ICU in Mumbai, first GPS enabled ambulance service that sends relevant statistics to the doctors & first Intelligent ICCA system enabling anytime-anywhere patient data retrieval system by doctors in Mumbai. In addition to this, it has the highest number of beds in ICU (100).

North Mumbai

Wockhardt Super Speciality Hospital, North Mumbai offers hi-end clinical care in Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Joint Replacement Surgery. It is a 14 storied & 330 bedded multi-speciality located in the northern region of Mumbai, Mira Road.

Wockhardt Super Speciality Hospital is equipped with 9 operation theatres with Laminar Air Flow System to achieve Zero Bacterial Count, ‘ICU on Wheels’ on call 24x7 & Critical Care Department.


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