The origin of Bhaktivedanta Hospital lies in the vision of a few dedicated doctors. Way back in 1986, immediately after completing their specializations in various medical fields, a dream weaved the association of a few like-minded doctors together. The collective dream was to provide quality healthcare to the medically deprived people at a very affordable cost.

This group of doctors began their endeavor by taking medical camps to various areas in and around Maharashtra to serve the many who had virtually no access to modern medical care. Many years of dedicated service to thousands of patients saw the birth of ‘Sri Chaitanya Clinic’ (now Gauranga Clinic), a small clinic in Mira Road, in a distant suburb of Thane, near Mumbai. Time has seen the 7-bed clinic grow to a state-of-the-art 79-bed hospital catering to the community of Mira-Bhayandar Road.

Bhaktivedanta Hospital services over 1.5 million people in its catchment area within a radius of 10 kilometers. Hospital offers twin advantage of ultra-modern medicine together with the ancient knowledge of different alternative therapies to provide a holistic approach to patient care.

Department of Spiritual Care fully equipped with counselors and nurses attend to the mental trauma of patients and their families. Many cases of alcohol & drug abuse have been treated successfully through this department. Treating the mind and the soul along with ailments of the body are integrated to provide complete healing to the patients.

Bhaktivedanta Hospital takes the onus of it being a pillar of the Mira-Bhayandar community with pride. It has initiated various services like the Green Paper forum (aimed at making Mira Road area better through collective participation) and many free medical camps.

The hospital is run by the Sri Chaitanya Welfare Trust under the chairmanship of Mr. Rajeev Srivastava, and a cohesive group of Trustees who provide the required strategy and guidance for growth. Our motto of‘Serving in Devotion’ is followed in spirit by all the 285 staff and the 100 consulting specialists of the hospital.

To keep pace with changing times, the hospital continuously augments its equipment, infrastructure and services. For Bhaktivedanta, primarily "a-not-for-profit" institution is possible only with the help of philanthropic and committed donors and supporters.


The positive influence of His Holiness Radhanath Swami on the team of Bhaktivedanta Hospital has been immense. Radhanath Swami has given the team a sense of purpose in serving the medically deprived people at a very affordable cost. Through his search for the ultimate benefit for the society and his practice he explains to us the importance and purpose of life.In 1970, at the age of only nineteen, Radhanath Swami left his home in America seeking adventure and spiritual knowledge. After trekking across Europe for months, he reached his long hoped for destination: India. After living there for many years as a sadhu or wandering monk, he returned to America in order to share the sacred knowledge and wisdom he had learned from the many holy men and women he had met there.

It was an extraordinary choice, given what he had survived to get there: a journey filled with bizarre characters, ystical experiences, and dangerous adventures. The story is recounted in his recently published memoir The Journey Home (San Rafael, CA: Mandala Publishing, 2009). Reviewers have called Radhanath's saga "at once an engaging yarn, a love story, and the evocation of a transcendent paradise in all its savagery, solitude, and plendor."Radhanath Swami emerged from his years of travel wanting to explain for others the beauty and rewards of a life devoted to God, and therein lay a dilemma. His many followers and friends describe him as completely selfless and consequently unwilling to take credit for his work and restless when a spotlight is focused on him. By choosing A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami (1896-1977), a spiritual activist, as his guru (after declining offers of initiation from several tyagis or renunciants in the Himalayas), Radhanath Swami cast his fate to the wind, cut his matted locks, and entered back into the society.More than a symbolic gesture, these were first steps toward an active, engaged form of devotion. This contemporary strain of the Bhakti or devotional yoga tradition maintains that people who become aware of their spiritual identity share an imperative to reduce suffering in the world-a truth slowly revealed to him in the years prior to his formal initiation by other famous spiritual teachers he had met including the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Ananda Mayi Ma, Swami Satcidananda, and many more who make their appearances in The Journey Home.In spite of his constant global travels over many years, Radhanath Swami established his spiritual headquarters at Radha Gopinath Temple in Chowpatty, Mumbai. For the past twenty years he has guided the community development and has initiated a number of acclaimed social action programs.

"He sees life as a continuous blessing of God's grace," one follower says, "and yet he never loses his humanness. His accessibility leaves people feeling that, with a little sincere effort, they too will find the path to inner peace and God realization."