Mangaluru: Father Muller Hospital Thumbay (FMHT) will celebrate its fifth anniversary on May 1. In the five years, FMHT has grown from a simple general hospital care to multispeciality hospital with state of the art facilities, with the motto of “heal & comfort” and slogan of “we care for you at every stage.”
To commemorate this achievement, a “Mega Free Health Checkup Camp” has been organised on May 1. As part of the celebrations, eye camp and free distribution of glasses, blood donation camp will be held on the same day.
For the celebratory function on the evening of May 1, Dr. U M Bhushi, Principal, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management will be the chief guest, Most Rev. Dr. Aloysious Paul D’Souza, Bishop of Mangalore Diocese will preside.
Special FMHT health card scheme will be launched on the same day as part of the 5th anniversary celebration, the press release said.
FMHT has been a great blessing to the people of Belthangady, Bantwal, Puttur taluks. Strategically located, FMHT has been providing not only healthcare facility closer to people of the area but also by organising outreach community programmes, camps and health awareness programmes and reaching out to people residing in the outskirts of Mangaluru.
The hospital now has 150-bed multispeciality hospital with multi-departmental OPDs, 24×7 services, new state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities, convenient and spacious general and private wards, canteen and other facilities. The homeopathic and physiotherapy departments of the hospital also provide holistic care to the patients.
To mark the 5th anniversary, the hospital organised free health check-up camps in the months of March and April. Blood investigation RBS, Haemoglobin screening, Thyroid, Pap smear Test etc., were done free of cost. A Rs 1500 cataract surgery package, medicines and Father Muller Health Card were provided free of cost in these camps.
Facilities available at FMHT:
Multispecialty hospital with 150 beds:
General Medicine, Pediatrics, ENT, Dental, General Surgery, Opthalmology, Dermatology, Physiotheraphy, OBG, Cardiology, Radiology, Homeopathy, Orthopedics, Anaesthesiology, and Psychiatry departments are available for patient care.
24 hour services:
Accident/trauma care, ICU/NICU/PICU with ventilator, Labour Theatres, Operation Theatres, Opthal OT, Laproscopic Surgery Facilities, CT Scan, ultrasonography, laboratory services, digital X-rays, C-ARM, pharmacy, ambulance, health check-up schemes, mortuary and health card.
Doctors available at FMHT:
Father Muller Hospital Thumbay is equipped with state-of-art facilities with well qualified healthcare professionals in all the medical specialities. The hospital has skilled nursing department and support staff.
- Medicine department: Dr. Kiran Shetty, Dr. Anoop Joseph
- Paediatric department: Dr. Ganapathi Bhat, Dr. Sowmya
- Surgery department: Dr. Ram Prakash Arun K
- Dermatology department: Dr. Jyothi, Dr. Michelle, Dr. Meryl, Dr. Roshal
- ENT Department: Dr. Deekshith Shetty
- Orthopaedics department: Dr. Rajessh.S, Dr. Nithin Elliot Nazareth
- Opthalmology Department: Dr. Saritha Gonsalves
- OBG Department: Dr. Jameela, Dr. Jessy Maria D’Souza
- Dental department: Dr. Zeena D’Costa
- Anaesthesia department: Dr. Nichelle M Saldanha
- Radiology Department: Dr. Peter P Joshuwa
- CMO: Dr. P V Kamath
Health Card benefits and free care:
Father Muller Hospital Thumbay has more than 18000 health card holders. For the past 5 years hospital has crossed nearly 75,000 outpatients and 7,500 inpatients. Free care worth Rs 65 Lakh is provided to patients during financial year 2017-2018. The hospital has also introduced free meal facility for the general ward patients and subsidised mess facility for the employees.
Credit facility available for corporate insurance TPAs:
Sampoorna Suraksha, Star Health and Allied Insurance, KCC card, Mukyamantri Santwana-Harish scheme, Rastriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), Dedicated Health Care Services (DHS), TPAC, Yashaswini scheme and Religare health insurance are accepted in the hospital.
Community centres:
There are 8 community centres in Bollary, Jarandagudde, Ammuje and Badagabellur, Ammemar, Ulaibettu, Canara Engineering College and Loreto Matha, Loreto.
