Kolkata: On its 28th foundation day, Ruby General Hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday launched a special health benefits card for intellectually challenged children attached to Manovikas Kendra, one of the oldest organisations that work for these special children in Bengal.
This card offers exclusive IPD and OPD facilities to these children. The first 500 health cards were handed over to the parents of students of Manovikas Kendra.
Ruby which started in April 1995 is the oldest among the hospitals that dot along Kolkata’s EM Bypass today. Inaugurated by Jyoti Basu, the then Bengal Chief Minister as the first NRI hospital of Eastern India Mother Teresa visited the hospital in October of that year to inaugurate its cardiac surgery unit. Founded by Dr Kamal K Dutta, who graduated from R G Kar Medical College, Kolkata and went to the US in 1976, the hospital today is 356 bedded and has NABH accreditation.
Manovikas Kendra has been working on the education and rehabilitation of special children since 1974 and today has a separate unit for autistic children. Since the institute is located in its neighbourhood the hospital chose for its social project.
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