NMMC Hospital, Vashi

NMMC Hospital is the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation's general hospital at Sector 10, Vashi. It provides both inpatient and outpatient care, with a 24-hour emergency and critical care service, intensive care and neonatal intensive care units, trauma care and a blood bank.Treatment is free for senior citizens, patients below the poverty line, medico-legal cases and those covered by national health programmes, which is the defining fact about this hospital for most of the people who use it.Surgical departments cover general surgery, laparoscopic surgery, gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery, coloproctology, urology and paediatric urology, orthopaedics with joint replacement, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, surgical oncology, ENT, craniofacial and reconstructive plastic surgery, and dermatosurgery.Women's health covers obstetrics and gynaecology, gynaecological endoscopy and laparoscopy, and family planning services.Medical departments include nephrology with dialysis, gastroenterology, endocrinology and diabetology, ophthalmology, dermatology including paediatric dermatology, dentistry, psychiatry and psychology.Diagnostics run in-house across MRI, CT, ultrasound with Doppler studies, echocardiography, endoscopy, treadmill testing, pathology and biochemistry, with preventive health check-ups available.The hospital runs postgraduate training in affiliation with the College of Physicians and Surgeons.NMMC Hospital is located at JN3-3, Sector 10, Vashi, Navi Mumbai. Vashi sits at the Thane creek crossing, the first node of Navi Mumbai reached from Mumbai over the Vashi bridge, with its own harbour line station and the APMC markets alongside. A municipal hospital here with free treatment for those entitled to it serves not only Vashi but Turbhe, Koparkhairane, Sanpada and the market workforce.