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Surat Hospital additions

The 101-year-old Seth Rustamji Dhanjibhai Tarachand Parsi General Hospital is refurbishing some of its departments, Surat Parsi Panchayat (SPP) chairman Jamshed Dotivala told Parsiana on March 4, 2021. A new sonography machine has been installed. Pipelines are being laid for the supply of oxygen to beds in the general ward. "New equipment is being purchased for the laboratory… We have received a donation of Rs 20 lakhs from the N. M. Wadia Charity Trust,” he noted. The languishing Parsi-only Hospital with a one-time peak capacity of "nearly 100 beds” currently has only 10 beds occupied, noted Rohinton Mehta, SPP chief......



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Our Parsi Zoroastrian Trust Funds established in US, Canada, UK, Hong Kong Macao and so many individual Zoroastrians are awaiting to donate for the noble cause of revival and upgradation of this 101 years old philanthropic Institution - Sheth R.D.Tarachand Surat Parsi General Hospital. But they can't donate funds in absence of FCRA permission. Trustees of the hospital management - Surat Parsi Panchayat and Properties Funds are once again requested to come forward for this noble cause, leave colonialism imperialism and nepotism in overall administration of Surat's Parsi Panchayat under influence of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Chairman and Cotrustees of the Parsee Surat Charity Funds (Mumbai) and act with righteousness, transparency and effectively. CEO appointed at Surat's Parsi Panchayat is permanent resident of Mumbai. There are so many intelligent Officers at Surat to serve as SPP CEO. Hospital management should scrutinize themselves why Parsis are not coming to Hospital for treatment.
- Rayoman Sorabji Ilavia
- 27-Mar-2021

 

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