Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai

Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital is a 595+ bed hospital in Vile Parle West, Mumbai. The institution was inaugurated in 1950 and now contains 55 speciality departments. Its clinical workforce is supported by more than 350 consultants and over 600 full-time doctors, according to the hospital’s own profile.

Care is organised through institutes and specialist units. These include cancer care; bone, joint replacement, spine and sports medicine; haematology and bone marrow transplantation; renal sciences and kidney transplantation; liver, intestine and pancreas sciences; neurosciences; cardiology; urology; and critical care. The hospital lists procedures such as deep brain stimulation, robotic prostate surgery, radical nephrectomy, hepatectomy, hemicolectomy, lumpectomy, kidney transplantation, liver transplantation and robotic knee replacement.

A 10,000+ sq ft imaging centre houses a 3 Tesla 32-channel wide-bore MRI with MR-guided focused ultrasound and a 64-slice PET-CT with cardiac capability. The separate technology directory also names EDGE radiosurgery with HyperArc, MAGNETOM Vida XT 3T MRI, a Philips FD10 cath lab, digital mammography, endoscopic ultrasound, stereotactic body radiation therapy, ECMO, a gamma camera and continuous renal replacement therapy.

Patients outside Mumbai can submit medical reports through the hospital’s online second-opinion service and choose a hospital and specialty for review. This may help families obtain a specialist opinion before deciding whether to travel.

Nanavati Max may be relevant for patients considering cancer surgery or radiotherapy, kidney or liver transplantation, functional neurosurgery, complex orthopaedics or cardiac care. Its named institutes and broad imaging resources are especially useful when diagnosis, surgery, pathology, intensive care and rehabilitation must be coordinated within one hospital.