PSRI was established in 1996 with a unique concept of putting together two specialities together viz. nehphrology and gastroenterology including liver disease. Chronic liver disease very often ends up with renal failure (the so called hepatorenal syndrome) and advanced chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis get often infected with hepatitis B or hepatitis C requiring specialised care from liver specialists.
Promoted and managed by the Singhania family who own JK Industries, medical care decisions pertaining to patients are made by a group of doctors headed by the medical director. Such an arrangement ensures perfectly ethical practice of medicine done in the best interest of their patients without any bias to benefit the hospital owners or administrators. JK family has a legacy of establishing non-profit social organisations in different parts of our country and to continue this corporate social responsibility forward, they wanted to create a super speciality healthcare facility which fills the gap felt in the healthcare system of our country. It was then that they decided to establish a gastroenterology, nephrology tertiary care institute which was not present in this fashion and combination, at that point of time, in the health sector of our country.
Late Shri Hari Shankar Singhania along with the immediate family members were the main pioneers to envisage the idea of PSRI. Their vision was to create a world class tertiary care centre for gastroenterology and nephrology for the specific care and management of these diseases, through well known experts in the country as well as develop it into a knowledge centre through clinical research and seat of teaching and training to help medical experts of these specialities to cater more centres for such specialities.
The first and foremost challenge was to develop an identity of chosen combination of healthcare facilities which did not exist in this form in the entire country with stand-alone super speciality tertiary care centres being rare. The next challenge was to grow the size of the institute so that a large number of patients could be catered for comprehensive care in the chosen specialities. Still another was to establish the institute as the super speciality referral centre for different states of our country and for foreign patients also. PSRI was able to overcome all these challenges through excellent team work, and setting mile stones of success through the world class clinical work by the nationally and internationally acclaimed faculty members, as well as consistent guidance and encouragement by the managing committee and inputs from eminent national and international medical experts.
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| Dr Rakesh Kumar Tandon |
The hospital started out with 37 beds including a seven-bed ICU and just one operation theatre with a very basic endoscopy unit and a dialysis unit having four machines. Today, it is a 106-bed facility with three critical care areas (medical ICU, surgical ICU and post transplant ICU) manned by well qualified staff with rich experience in all the departments. Endoscopy unit of gastroenterology department and hemodialysis unit of nephrology department are one of the premier and highest patient processing units of Delhi. Surgical facilities have grown substantially creating many national and international records, for difficult and unique surgeries.
The hospital has since grown into a well known centre of clinical research recognised by ICMR and Director of Science and Technology. The comprehensive diabetes centre and gamut of regular support specialities eg. chest, psychology, gynaecology, neurology, medical oncology, dietetics, pain management, orthopedics and ENT provides comprehensive patient care.
The surgical counterparts of both the specialities ie Urology and gastrointestinal (GI) surgery at PSRI have excelled in their own rights. GI surgeons are most proficient in doing minimally invasive surgery e.g. laparoscopic cholecystectomy and laparoscopic thoracotomy. Similarly, the urologists are capable of doing most procedures through minimally invasive approach performing about six to eight kidney transplants per month with 90 per cent success.
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| Dr Dipak Shukla |
Supporting specialities include paediatric gastroenterology, diabetes and endocrinology, general medicine, gynaecology, psychiatry, clinical nutrition, cardiology, respiratory diseases etc. Doctors from certain other specialities like haematology, oncology, dermatology, neurology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and ENT services are available for consultations and referrals. The ICU has two sections, one for medical and another for surgical patients. Other essential services include a full range of laboratory and radiology services that work round the clock and provide a full range of tests at reasonable price. A hospital ambulance is available 24 hours for transporting critically ill patients on vital support.
The hospital also has an active DNB teaching programme and research cell, with regular updating of its clinical services. A well equipped library with Internet facility helps greatly too. NABH and ISO accreditation gives it the stamp and confidence of high quality. The hospital has all the equipment and technology to address the full spectrum of medical and surgical solutions for the patients which has made it one of the premier referral centre for the chosen specialities. Telemedicine is an area where the doctors constantly work with several African countries.
The hospital plans for expansion including adding facilities for liver transplant, cath lab and cardiology services. All these will be housed in a new building, which is coming on the same premises along side. This is to be completed within two years time. With this expansion the number of patient beds will be doubled. Bed numbers will also increase in the critical care units, dialysis stations and endoscopy facilities. Apart from these several allied support services will be added.
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