Mangaluru: Late Rev. Fr. Augustus Muller laid the foundation for Father Muller Charitable Institution in the heart of the city, Kankanady Mangalore in 1880. Today, it has broadened its horizons and is providing world class healthcare services to the people in and around coastal Karnataka.

Father Muller Hospital Thumbay is a part of FMCI which is situated in Thumbay Bantwal taluk. It was taken over from B.A Group Thumbay on May 01, 2013 and was inaugurated on June 02, 2013 Father Muller Hospital Thumbay is happy to announce that it is completing 10 years of its existence. The hospital being NABH Pre entry level accredited has added an extra star to the quality of patient care. Over the past years, we have increased our bed strength from 50 bed to

100 bed health care facility magnifying our services from multi specialty to super specialty.

Our hospital is known for its 24x7 services in the following departments, emergency and trauma care. 16 slice CT scan, laboratory, pharmacy, Labour room, ultra Modern OT, Nursing. From the last 10 years our healthcare services has benefited patients from Bantwal, Belthangady, Puttur, Vittia and Kerala. As we reach the 10th year milestone keeping in mind the welfare of the rural area around our hospital, especially that of the girl child education, the management had inaugurated the first ever B.Sc. Nursing College with an intake of 40 seats in Bantwal Taluk and the new college building construction is moving at a faster pace.

As FMHT complete a decade of useful existence on May 1, 2023, we are organizing a Mega Health Check-up and Blood Donation camp for all the departments. The attendees of the camp will be provided with free service for the following month.

The Decennial Celebrations of Father Muller Hospital Thumbay will be held on May 2, 2023 at 10.30am in the Hospital premises. The Bishop of Mangalore and the President of Father Muller Charitable Institutions Most Rev. Dr Peter Paul Saldanha will be the President for the celebrations and Mr Manjunath Bhandary, MLC, Karnataka Legislative Council will be the Chief Guest for the Programme. The programme will be coordinated and guided by the Director of FMC Rev. Fr. Richard Aloysius Coelho, the Administrator of FMHT Rev. Fr Sylvester Vincent Lobo, Dr Kiran Shetty, Medical Superintendent and Sr Dhanya Devasia, Principal FMNCT will be gracing the event with their presence on that day.

In remembrance of the Decennial Celebrations "Muller@Thumbay" the annual magazine of the Unit and the Documentary of FMHT will also be released. The management will be felicitating the doctors and employees who have been continuously serving the Institution for the last 10 years.

Future Plans

On May 1" the newly designed Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Department along with two new Dialysis equipments will be blessed and inaugurated by Rev.Fr Richard Aloysius Coelho, Director, FMCI.

⚫ Father Muller Hospital Thumbay is in the process of achieving full accreditation under the NABH 5th edition for which trainings and implementation process is being carried out.

The hospital has facilities for Arthroscopy/ Key Hole Total Knee & Total Hip Replacement Surgeries. All these services will certainly escalate the number of OP/IP patients. Father Muller Nursing College Thumbay has admitted its very first batch of B.Sc. Nursing students for the Academic Year 2022-23. At present the intake is 40 and gradually we will apply for 100 intake for B.Sc. Nursing as the new building with the state-of-the-art facilities is getting ready.

We also plan to start GNM program and a few AHS courses.

• Every year Hospital gives concession to the deserving poor patients to the tune of 75 lakhs in the previous financial year.

Director Rev Fr. Richard Aloysius Coelho gave the information. Other administrative head's were present.