KEM is an 1800-bed hospital and one of many largest hospitals within the state of Maharashtra, offering coaching to round 2000 college students in undergraduate, postgraduate and super-specialty medical programs. File |Photograph Credit score: Prashant Nakwe
The plaque on the gate of King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) has withstood 100 years of monsoons, midnight emergencies and silent disappointment in ready rooms, however now, on its one hundredth anniversary, the Mumbai civic physique is contemplating altering its identify to ‘Kaushalya Shreshta Eklavya Memorial Hospital’, however medical doctors and sufferers do not suppose that could be a precedence. Docs working with the institute burdened the necessity to enhance KEM’s companies earlier than specializing in altering the identify.
A brand new controversy is brewing over the renaming of KEM Hospital, which was based on January 22, 1926. On Monday (April 27, 2026), the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) staged a protest in opposition to the proposal and challenged KEM Hospital Director Sangeeta Rabhat. Shiv Sena (UBT) Parel MP Ajay Chaudhary and opposition chief Kishori Pednekar met the dean and filed an enchantment stating that the proposal needs to be withdrawn. “KEM is a hub for accessing medical services for a lot of poor sufferers from throughout the nation. The hospital is house to a few of the world-class medical doctors and has a wealthy historical past,” the letter stated.
KEM is an 1800-bed hospital and one of many largest hospitals within the state of Maharashtra, offering coaching to round 2000 college students in undergraduate, postgraduate and super-specialty medical programs. Based on KEM Hospital authorities, 390 workers physicians and 550 resident physicians deal with roughly 1.8 million outpatients and 85,000 inpatients yearly.
