Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata
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. Ex Chief minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Mahanayak Uttam Kumar, Mahanayika Suchitra Sen, famous actor Saumitra Chetterjee, Oscar winner Satyajit Ray also admitted in this Hospital. Noted Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist Mahasweta Devi 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 The Week, an independent weekly amongst India's Best Hospitals, for three consecutive years, from 2011 to 2013.
- The hospital achieved NABL Accreditation for its Pathology 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.
See also
References
- ^ "Veteran politician and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away at 89". thenewsminute.com. thenewsminute. 13 August 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ^ "মহাশ্বেতা দেবী হাসপাতালে, দেখতে গেলেন মমতা". deshebideshe.com (in Bengali). দেশেবিদেশে. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ "ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITIONS". bellevueclinic.
- ^ "Arrest warrant against CEO of private hospital". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. timesofindia. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.