The Meherbai Tata Memorial Hospital (MTMH) caters to below-poverty-line patients by arranging grants through government schemes or private donations. It is empanelled for Mukhyamantri Gambhir Bimari Yojana and the Ayushman Bharat scheme. Patients can avail of special aid for childhood malignancies. It has tied up with corporate and public sectors to provide cancer care to its employees.
The Department of Radiation Oncology, MTMH treats patients with Varian True Beam LINAC and GammaMedplus HDR Brachytherapy – capable of some of the most advanced radiotherapy procedures such as 3DCRT, Electron Therapy, IMRT, IGRT and SBRT.
The Department of Medical Oncology, MTMH has three experienced consultants specialising in Medical Oncology. Besides solid tumours, they routinely treat leukaemia and other haematological malignancies.
The hospital is equipped with special neutropenia cabins and wards to ensure the safety of leukaemia patients. There are also separate daycare chemotherapy wards and specialised low-dose therapy wards for the treatment of hormone-resistant prostate cancer.
Surgical oncologists, general surgeons, and gynaecologists are available for OPD consultation, while minor surgical procedures can be performed in the OPD procedure room. Patients requiring surgery are seamlessly transferred to TMH.
MTMH has a dedicated palliative care unit, funded by the Suri Seva Foundation and helmed by specialists with more than 20 years of experience in the field.
The diagnostic centre at MTMH is equipped with two CT machines (128-slice and 32-slice emergency CT), a 3 Tesla MRI, a 1.5 Tesla MRI, PET-CT, ultrasound, digital mammography, and digital X-ray facilities. CT-guided and ultrasound-guided biopsies, as well as FNAC, are routinely done.
