Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | 1, Hashimpur Road, Tagore Town, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Coordinates | 25°27′32″N 81°51′41″E / 25.4590264°N 81.8614173°E |
Organisation | |
Funding | Government of India |
Type | Not-for-profit |
Affiliated university | NABH NBE |
History | |
Opened | 1931 |
Links | |
Website | knmh |
Lists | Hospitals in India |
Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital (KNMH) is a not-for-profit hospital in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] The hospital had its beginnings in 1931 as a dispensary founded by Smt. Kamala Nehru in her ancestral house Swaraj Bhawan. Gandhiji laid the foundation stone of Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital in 1939. KNMH is the only hospital in the country for which he had collected donations. Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated this hospital in the memory of Late Smt Kamala Nehru on 28 February 1941, the date she had died in 1936.[2] Since 1994, the Oncology Department of the hospital is a Regional Cancer Centre, recognized by Government of India.