Radiation Center of the Holy Spirit Hospital

Diagnostic Center of the Holy Spirit Hospital

The Holy Spirit of Bombay is a hospital with multiple specialties, registered as a public hospital, run by the missionary sisters of the Holy Spirit. It is a hospital with 300 beds and between 400 and 450 external patients.

Since its creation in 1967 the Holy Spirit has worked to provide quality services to every patient without any discrimination.

Through their more than 40 years of service, maintaining their objectives has been difficult because in the health field the cost and velocity of updates and technological renovations make it difficult to sustain their projects.

The Holy Spirit has worked specifically with the poor and lower castes of Indian society, and accordingly, provide 70% of their services free or with a symbolic fee for those that cannot afford it.

There are also six health clinics in the slum zones around the hospital, facilitating the medical care of the most disadvantaged sectors of society. A team of doctors, nurses, social workers and paramedic personal work daily in disease detection and prevention and health programs.

Radiotherapy is very important to help alleviate pain and symptoms in 60% of cancer patients. This radiotherapy clinic represent a new service of the Holy Spirit Hospital; it offers a new alternative to patients that do not have access to it at anywhere else.

Project to build the Radiation Center

The project consists of constructing and equipping the radiotherapy unit of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit. It includes a center of medical control, Lineal Acceleration radiotherapy and day center of chemotherapy that treats cancer patients from the slums.

The building has four floors with a total area of 1918 m2 with all the adequate installations necessary to guarantee services and safety.

This project is of great importance and shold be financed jointly between multiple organizations and Bombay Smiles along with individual collaborators who which to contribute to the Unit of Treatment Planning.

In this photo we see Jaume Sanllorente and Cristiane Tolotti, from the institutional department, visiting the new radiotherapy center with one of the missionary sisters of the Holy Spirit.

The principal objective of this new project that will be supported by our organization is to improve universal access to health services without caste, race or financial discrimination.

Every cancer patient can use this center to receive treatment, but the principal beneficiaries of this new center are the patients who cannot access other services due to their financial situation, movement restrictions or because they are on a waiting list.

Photographers: Holy Spirit Hospital and Bombay Smiles