Model hospital in Rajasthan, India

If you enter the J.Watumull Global Hospital & Research Centre at Madhuban, Rajasthan, India, as patient you are asked by which method you would like to be treated: Modern Western Allopathic, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Therapy of the High Mountain Air and so many other methods. Every treatment is open to scientific analysis and monitoring. Over 30 poor villages in the immediate environment of the hospital inhabitants are medically treated without charge.

The hospital presents a pragmatic approach towards holistic healing. It took an industrialist, a surgeon and a spiritual leader to come up with the novel idea of a multi-disciplinary secondary care hospital located in the verdant green hills of the Aravali range, in Rajasthan, India.

In 1989, eminent head and neck cancer surgeon from Mumbai, dr.Ashok Mehta, visited Mount Abu and was impressed with the meticulous team work of the Brahma Kumaris in implementing their global UN-dedicated project, 'Global Co-operation For A Better World'. He then realised, he had found a group of like-minded people who would implement his vision of a model hospital focusing on healthcare.

The project was adopted by Khuba and Gulab Watumull of Mumbai and Hawaii (U.S.A.) respectively, and named J.Watumull Global Hospital & Research Centre, in memory of their late father. At the time, district Sirohi’s roughly 700,000 strong population was served by 4 hospitals with a combined bed strength of 457 served the district's. J Watumull Global Hospital & Research Centre was commissioned on October 24, 1991.

Since then, word of the hospital and its philanthropic aims has gone around and financial support has been forthcoming from the Americas, Australia, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, Mauritius, Philippines, South Africa and United Kingdom. The hospital has expanded its scope of operation, both within the hospital premises and in field work conducted in numerous villages around Mount Abu, under the leadership of BK Nirwair, appointed Managing Trustee of the governing board formed in 1989.

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