Belle Vue Clinic is a

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hospital chain that is one of the earliest hospitals established in

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. 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

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, 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

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to conduct tissue typing for Organ Transplant patients.

Overview

Belle Vue is centrally located in

. 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

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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

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and a former Member of parliament, and

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who died at 89 from

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while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Ex Chief minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Mahanayak Uttam Kumar, Mahanayika Suchitra Sen, famous actor Saumitra Chetterjee, Oscar winner Satyajit Ray was also admitted to this Hospital. Noted

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was also admitted to Belle Vue with a urinary tract ailment. Belle Vue Clinic will set up two hospitals at Rajarhat a 164-bed general hospital and a 400-bed multispecialty facility.

Award & accreditations

* Belle Vue was acclaimed by

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, an independent weekly amongst India's Best Hospitals, for three consecutive years, from 2011 to 2013. * The hospital achieved NABL Accreditation for its

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Department in January 2011.

Departments

The hospital has the following departments: * Cardiology * CCU & ICCU & ICU, KTU, NICK * Radiology & Imaging * Cardiac Surgery * Operation Theaters * Neurology * Cardiology Surgical in ICU * Neurotology (Vertigo Care) * Blood Bank * Urology * OPD * Gastroenterology * Pathology * Emergency Department * Oncology & Onco Surgery * Nephrology & Kidney Transplant * Physiotherapy * Gynaecology & Obstetrics * Pharmacy * Orthopaedics & Spine Surgery * Composite Health Plans * General Medicine * General Laparoscopic * Bariatric & GI Surgery * Diabetology & Endocrinology * Pulmonology * Rheumatology * ENT & Endoscopic Surgery * Sleep Apnea * Mother & Child Care * Digital X-Ray (Digital X-ray, CT Scan, MRI, Mammography, B.M.D., USG & Echocardiography)

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.

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