MILESTONES OF MPUH

1978, March 20th

• Shri. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, Honorable President of India, inaugurated Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH).

1980

• First Live Donor Kidney Transplant Operation in Gujarat performed.

1981

• Urodynamics Laboratory started functioning.

1984

• Muljibhai Patel Society for Research in Nephro-Urology (MPSRNU) was formed, approved by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.
• Donations made to MPSRNU qualified for 200% exemption U/s. 35(1)(ii) of the Income Tax Act,1961.

1985

• Started Department of Endourology for treating kidney stones through Endoscopic Procedures for the first time in the country.
• Introduced Ureteroscopy for the first time in the country.

1989

• Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Hon. Vice President of India, inaugurated the new building and Shri. Haribhai Desai Lithotripsy Centre.
• Acquired Lithotriptor and Laser for the treatment of stone.

1991

• New Urodynamic Laboratory installed.

1992

• Government of Gujarat recognized our institution by granting reimbursement to its employees for treatment received at the hospital.

1993

• Received approval from the National Board of Examination, New Delhi, for conducting DNB Teaching Programme in Urology and Nephrology.
• 24 hours Medical Store started functioning.
• Biochemistry section of our Laboratory fully automated.

1994

• Started Department of Andrology for treating male infertility and sexual impotency.

1995

• Acquired state-of-the-art equipment for the treatment of prostate known as Transurethral Needle Ablation (TUNA) of Prostate.
• Started Angioplasty Procedure in Reno vascular Hypertension. 

1997

• Our department of Nephrology selected as “Sister Renal Centre” by the Department of Nephrology of Arkansas University, U.S.A.

1998

• Department of Pediatric Urology started functioning.

1999

• Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy was performed in this institute for the first time.
• Animal Laboratory started functioning.
• ISO 9001:1994 accorded to the institution, which is the first charitable hospital in the country for this recognition.
• Acquired state-of-the-art colour doppler.
• Acquired video dynamics machine.

2000

• Launched website of our Hospital “ www.mpuh.org ”
• Hosted the 12th Video Urology World Congress at Goa.
• Ranbaxy “Centre of Excellence” inaugurated.
• Crossed 1000 Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Operations.
• Hosted the Millennium International Urology Congress at Delhi.

2001

• Dornier Lithotriptor acquired for the treatment of stone.
• Fellowship Exchange Program with Cleveland Clinic Foundation,USA.

2002

• Recertified for ISO 9001:2000 by BVQI.
• Hosted the 1st World Summit on Radical Prostatectomy.

2003

• Hosted 1st World Summit on Kidney Surgery.
• Got the first prize from World Endourology Society for our clinical assay, first time in Asia.

2004

• Installed O.R-1 (Major Operation Theatre) System. First Installation in India; equipment from Karl Storz Germany.
• Installed Riwo-net Operation Theatre System. First Installation in India; equipment from Richard Wolf Germany.
• Hosted 22nd World Congress on Endourology (WCE’2004) at Mumbai.

2005

• Re-certified 2nd time as per ISO 9001:2000 by BVQI.

2006

• Awarded CRISIL Healthcare Grading “A” to the institution – 1st Charitable Hospital in India recognized as Grade “A”.
• Implemented Excelicare Software – a full fledged Hospital Information System for hospital.

2006 (Continued…)

• Tied up with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre (CCHMC) for developing advanced pediatric service, training and research in the field of pediatric urology and its allied branches.
• Acquired Digitised X-ray (Agfa CR25), modern technique in radiology.
• Installed CORE-Richard Wolf (Major O.T.), an unique operation theatre in India having combination of OR-1 and CORE-O.T.
• Established the central office for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Registry of India; a project of Indian Society of Nephrology.

2007

• Inaugurated Jayaramdas Patel Academic Centre (JPAC) by Honorable Governor of Gujarat Shri. Naval Kishore Sharma on 21st January 2007.
• Received approval from the National Board of Examination, New Delhi, to conduct DNB Teaching Programme in Anesthesia.

2008

• Inaugurated High-speed 16-Slice MDCT Scan Centre.
• Inaugurated Veeda Clinical Research’s CPU (Clinical Pharmacology Unit) – India’s 1st Clinical Pharmacology Unit for Renal impaired patients.
• Re-certified 3rd time as per ISO 9001:2000 by BVCI.
• Upgraded our Urodynamic laboratory with Duct Logic G-2.
• Microbiology section of Laboratory updated with Microbial Detection System.
• Modified Karl Storz OR-1 and HD.
• Acquired Robotic HIFU – EDAP TMS for the least invasive treatment of Prostate Cancer without surgery first time in India.

2009

• The quality management system upgraded to ISO 9001:2008 by BVCI.

2010

• Inaugurated Rohit J Patel Department of Uro-oncology by Honorable Minister of Health, Government of Gujarat, Shri. Jaynarayan Vyas on 11th January 2010.
• Acquired state-of-the-art da Vinci Si Robotic Surgical System, MPUH became the first charitable hospital in India.

2011

• The quality management system at MPUH re-certified for the 2nd time to ISO 9001:2008 by BVCI.
• Crossed 2000 Live Donor Kidney Transplantations.
• MPUH becomes the first hospital in India to install the “Prostate Histoscanning”.
• Installed Prostate Histoscanning for the first time in India.

2012

• MPUH was awarded the prestigious IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award Trophy – 2011, the first hospital in Gujarat to win this award.
• Launched a new website www.centreforroboticsurgery.com, for public awareness and education about advantages of Robotic surgery at MPUH. This is in addition to our current website www.mpuh.org .

2013

• Crossed 300 Robotic surgeries in the last two years at MPUH successfully.