Breach Candy Hospital is a

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located in

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. It is located in the

Breach Candy Bhulabhai Desai Road, also well known by the old name Warden Road (and the part at and near the swimming pool as Breach Candy), is a niche up-market residential and semi-commercial locality of South Mumbai. The area has many famous landmarks be ...

area of

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. It is well known for the rich and famous patients that have been in the hospital.

History

It was established in 1950 at the upmarket

area in South Mumbai, and designed by an English architect Claude Batley. It started functioning as a 25-bed nursing home. Today, BCH is a multi-specialty hospital with over 220 beds. The hospital's specialists include some of the most distinguished names in the Indian medical profession. Before 2005, the

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funded a wing of the hospital known as the Pirojsha Godrej Wing.

Services

Breach Candy Hospital is managed by the Breach Candy Hospital Trust. It provides the following services: * Anesthesiology * Bariatric services * Blood bank * Cardiology and thoracic surgery * Dermatology * Endocrinology * Ear, nose and throat * General surgery * Gynecology * Hematology * Neurology * Oncology * Opthomalogy * Pediatric surgery * Plastic surgery * Psychiatry * Radiology * Rheumatology * Sleep laboratory * Urology * Vascular surgery BCH is a leader in interventional cardiology.

Notable patients

The following notable and famous persons were patients at Breach Candy hospital: * Former

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underwent a knee surgery at the hospital in 2000, when he was in office. *

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, who was admitted to the hospital, breathed his last on 6 July 2002 after a major stroke. *

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, a former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was admitted to the hospital in the first week of August 2012. He was diagnosed with both liver and kidney failure. He was later taken to Global Hospital in

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, where he died on 14 August 2012. * Socialite and philanthropist

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died on 11 October 2016 due to a lung ailment at the hospital. * Singer

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died on 6 February 2022, after a long battle with COVID-19 and

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. She was admitted on 8 January 2022. * Indian cricketer

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and actress

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's daughter Vamika Kohli was born on 11 January 2021. * Actress

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was born on August 12, 1995. * Indian actor

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and former actress

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's daughter Nitara was born on 25 September 2012 * Indian actor

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and actress

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's daughter Nysa was born on April 20, 2003. * Indian billionaire and

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, stock trader and investor

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died on August 14, 2022.

References

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