Message from President
Dear Friends,
On the completion of my 50 years association on the Executive Committee on 1st January 2020, it gives me great pleasure to address this brief message to all donors, well wishers and friends of the Hospital. The B. D. Petit Parsee General Hospital provides Medical services to our less fortunate brethren & community members for the last 108 years.
On this happy occasion of New Year, we would like to inform you that the Hospital continues to do yeoman charity service for the Parsee community particularly for free and highly Subsidized patients. A free patient gets totally free care – be it medicine, all diagnostic facilities (whether available in our Hospital or outside), or even surgery. The cost of medicine to the Free in-patients, & Free and highly subsidized OPD patients during the last 3 years is detailed below. Further, the Hospital spent approximately Rs.150 lakhs during the last year, on acquisition of new/replacement of high performance equipment, for upgradation of Operation Theatre, Intensive Care Unit, Pathlab, Radiology and Physiotherapy Departments which have extended linearity to our Patient Care Capabilities.
In view of various recent conflicting reports about the relevance of our beloved hospital, I wish to place on record the full facts with regard to the functioning and finances of The B.D.Petit Parsee General Hospital.
Thank you,
H. D. Petit
President
The admissions in the Hospital during the last three years were:
| Year | No. of admissions |
|---|---|
|
2016/17 |
2149 |
|
2017/18 |
1964 |
|
2018/19 |
1861 |
| Category: | No. of beds | Average occupancy % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
|
Poor Patients |
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|
Free Ward |
67 |
66.94 |
|
59.57 |
|
C and D Wards |
29 |
67.15 |
65.97 |
65.70 |
|
|
96 |
67.01 |
59.36 |
61.42 |
|
Paying Patients |
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|
A/1 Ward |
22 |
45.15 |
52.08 |
46.90 |
|
A/2 Ward |
19 |
71.73 |
52.76 |
48.64 |
|
A/3 Ward |
20 |
56.04 |
63.02 |
72.58 |
|
|
61 |
57.00 |
55.88 |
55.86 |
|
I.C.U. |
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|
Poor Patients per day (average) |
|
5 |
6 |
6 |
|
Paying Patients per day (average) |
|
6 |
4 |
5 |
|
|
|
11 |
10 |
11 |
|
Occupancy in
ICU (%) |
16 |
70.67 |
63.56 |
65.57 |
|
Total |
173 |
63.85 |
58.52 |
59.84 |
The average number of patients treated in the Outpatient Department (OPD) which caters only to poor patients and the cost of free medicine supplied to them during the last three years was as under:-
| Year | Average No. of patients per day | Cost of medicine (Rs. lakhs) |
|---|---|---|
|
2016/17 |
43 |
35.39 |
|
2017/18 |
41 |
38.63 |
|
2018/19 |
41 |
43.80 |
Patients in the Free Wards are not charged for bed charges, which includes cost food and nursing services. For “C” and “D” Wards, the cost of bed charges are heavily subsidized. For patients in the Free Wards the charges for all other services such as pathology, radiology, blood bank, physiotherapy, medicines etc. are free and for patients in the “C” and “D” Wards there is a subsidy of 50% to the normal charges. The total amount of subsidy in respect of these services borne by the Hospital during the last three years was as under:-
| Year | Amount of subsidy (Rs. lakhs) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Free Wards |
“C” & “D” Wards |
Total |
||
|
2016/17 |
386.42 |
166.88 |
553.30 |
||
|
2017/18 |
445.52 |
224.46 |
669.98 |
||
|
2018/19 |
462.06 |
225.83 |
687.89 |
||
When facilities for diagnostic or other procedures such as MRI, CT Scan etc. arenot available in the Hospital, the patients are sent to other centers. For poorpatients, the cost of such services paid to other centers is not recovered from thepatients but are borne by the Hospital. The cost borne by the Hospital in the lastthree years was as under:-
| Year | No. of patients | Cost (Rs.) |
|---|---|---|
|
2016/17 |
75 |
4,58,030 |
|
2017/18 |
84 |
7,47,819 |
|
2018/19 |
102 |
8,10,203 |
The Panel of Honoraries of the Hospital consist of some of the most eminentdoctors in Mumbai. It is a tribute to their dedication and concern for thecommunity that they provide services to the patients in the Free Wards entirely
The deficit of the Hospital for the last three years can be summarized as shown below:-
| 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
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|
Operating Deficit Cost of retrospective Wage Settlement in May 2019 |
1,556 …….. |
1,309   31 |
1,500  117 |
|
Adjusted Operating Deficit
Contribution from Munsiff
Fund |
1,556  167 |
1,340  224 |
1,617  226 |
|
Interest Income |
1,389  778 |
1,116  785 |
1,391  731 |
|
Deficit after Interest |
611 |
331 |
660 |
|
Donations |
513 |
421 |
423 |
The above facts and figures will show that:
The average number of admissions in the last three years has been almost2000 persons per year. Given the fact that the number of the community in Mumbai is estimated at less than 40,000, it shows that on an average more than 5% of the number of persons in the community got admitted to the Hospital each year. In addition, on an average over 40 poor members of the community use the OPD facilities of the Hospital each day.
Out of 173 beds in the Hospital, 96 beds i.e. 55% of the beds are available for the poor members of the community including 67 beds i.e. almost 40% which are entirely free beds.
The average occupancy in the Hospital in the last three years has been around 60% and there is no great difference between the occupancy in the beds earmarked for poor patients and beds earmarked for paying patients. This shows that even the paying patients who have the option of using other hospitals want to use the Hospital and are satisfied with the services.
The Hospital has an annual deficit which has varied between Rs.331 lakhs and Rs.660 lakhs in the last three years. To meet this deficit, the Hospital continues to be dependent on donations and therefore needs the continued support of the community.
The Hospital is able to sustain such a large volume of charity care to the poor only due to the continuing financial support from kind, generous and concerned members of the Community. The Hospital Management would be grateful if you would share our burden of caring for the sick by donating generously in person, or by post. Your donations, big or small, are greatly valued by us and will be used for the general purpose of the Hospital and in particular for providing medicines and diagnostic services to the poor, upgrading medical equipment or procuring new equipment in our efforts at improving the quality as well as the range of medical services offered. Donations are also welcome to our Corpus Fund, the interest from which helps us to provide charity care to the poor.
May you enjoy a memorable year and may all your wishes come true.
Thank you,
H. D. Petit
President