Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata


Belle Vue Clinic is an NABH accredited premiere medical care institution that is one of the earliest hospitals established in Kolkata. The Hospital is a part of the M.P Birla Group that owns and runs a large number of businesses and enterprises in the city. Priyamvada Devi Birla, wife of the Late Madhav Prasad Birla is the founder of this Hospital. The Clinic had the first ICCU in the private sector in 1971 and the first centre to start renal transplant. Belle Vue also became the first centre in Eastern India conducting tissue typing for Organ Transplant patients.

Overview

Belle Vue is centrally located in Kolkata. It's one of the larger multi-specialty hospitals in the city and has a 241-bed capacity. The hospital opened in 1967 and was one of the earliest to be established in Kolkata and in the greater eastern region of the country. Many distinguished personalities from West Bengal, from artists to politicians have at various times been admitted to Belle Vue for treatment, some of whom include the 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a former Member of parliament, Somnath Chatterjee who died at 89 from cardiac arrest while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Noted Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist Mahasweta Devi was also admitted to Belle Vue in her last days when she was suffering from a urinary tract ailment.

Award & Accreditations

The hospital has several departments:
On 20th December 2018, a Kolkata metropolitan magistrate issued an arrest warrant against Pradip Tondon, the CEO of Belle Vue hospital. The warrant was issued as a result of the wife of a patient- who had died while undergoing treatment in Belle Vue Clinic- moving the West Bengal Medical Council against four doctors besides lodging a criminal case against those four doctors and also the hospital CEO. She alleged that her husband Sanjay Poddar, 51, had died on the 7th of September 2016, owing to medical negligence on part of the Hospital.