History

Established in 1946 the Jehangir Hospital today stands as an institution renowned for the medical excellence and dedication of its consultants and the care and compassion of its staff.

Sir Cowasji Jehangir and Lady Hirabai Jehangir, who founded the Jehangir Hospital, invited Dr. Eduljee H. Coyaji to start a Nursing Home that would offer high quality and personalized care at affordable prices. Started with just a few beds, on the 6th of February 1946, it became the city’s first private hospital.

In 1953, The Nursing Home was registered and run as a Public Charitable Trust, headed by Sir Cowasji Jehangir and an eminent board of trustees. After his demise in October 1962, his wife, Lady Hirabai Cowasji Jehangir presided over the Board.

Soon the Jehangir Nursing Home increased to a 60-bed hospital and additional facilities were added to provide better care and more patient convenience. These include the Kitchen, to provide nutritious food to the patients, a full-fledged Linen Department and a full-fledged Nursing Department. From the mid to late fifties the bed strength and facilities had to be continuously increased to keep pace with patient demand.

Sir Hirji Jehangir became Chairman of the Board of Trustees after the demise of Lady Hirabai Cowasji Jehangir in 1976. As he later wished to be relieved of his duties, his elder son, Mr. Jehangir H. C. Jehangir, later Sir Cowasji Jehangir, Fourth Baronet, became the Chairman in June 1988 and continues ably with this responsibility to date.

In the year 1989, a major expansion project was undertaken, under the guidance and watchful eye of Maj. Gen. D.B. Doctor, and the Block V building was completed. The hospital bed strength increased to 199 beds, of which approximately 75 beds were General Ward Beds, where subsidized medical treatment was given to poor and needy patients.

In 1995 the Hirabai Cowasji Jehangir Medical Research Institute was established. It is recognised by the Government of India as one of its Scientific & Research Organisations and conducts research in the medical field.

After this the hospital made an arrangement with the Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College to provide training to their undergraduate medical students. Our hospital is now recognised as a teaching Institute for various MD and MS Courses of the Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University.

By the late 1990s, 5 decades since it’s inception, the Jehangir Hospital had established a rich tradition of providing value for money health care and personalized service while maintaining clean ethics. The management wished to build further upon these values and to take the institution to a new level of patient-centric care, for which, it was necessary to further modernize, up-grade and expand available facilities.

To achieve this and take the institution to the targeted level of patient care, professionalism and efficiency, the management decided to enter into an association with Apollo Hospitals Group. This arrangement was formalized in April 1998, Mr. Jaideep Gupta being the first Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, under this arrangement. Under his stewardship the hospital underwent a major renovation and expansion that transformed it from a multispeciality Nursing Home to a state-of-the-art superspeciality hospital. The Apollo CT Scan Centre was established in our hospital premises on May 28, 2000.

Under the next CEO, Mr. Sudhir M. Diggikar, took place the launching of an Emergency Management System – the 1066 EMS, in association with the Apollo Hospitals, in 2003 and the setting up of a dedicated and independent Cardiology Dept in 2005. These 2 significant milestones resulted in the hospital establishing itself as a tertiary care hospital of the highest repute.

This was the first Cardiology service in Pune that had a full time team of eminent Cardiologists and Cardiac Surgeons attached to it. A Flat Panel  Cath Lab with Stent Booster technology, Seamless Stainless Steel Operation Theatres, Intra-operative Flowmetry and Minimally Invasive Cardiac procedures were some of the unique features this service introduced to Pune. The objective was to offer a reliable and high quality cardiac service that could handle even the most complicated cases, with results matching international standards.

In April 2006 the Ishanya Foundation Diabetic Center was set up through a donation from the Ishanya Foundation, a part of the Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd., to combat the growing menace of diabetes.

The crying need for additional beds was addressed by constructing 22 additional rooms and a luxury suite on the 6th floor in June 2006.

In May 2007 was commissioned the first unit outside the premises of the hospital when the Emergency Center at Hadapsar became operational. This stand-alone unit, capable of providing prompt and life-saving medical aid to emergency and trauma victims, was established out of a generous donation given by the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust.

The hospital has plans to set up 3 more such centers to cater to the demand for such services in the peripheries of Pune, which are accident prone and where there is a lack of professional and reliable emergency care services.