[1] Every year, the hospital admits around 70,000 patients, conducts 26,000 surgeries, and performs 6,500 deliveries.
[2] In 2019, the hospital inaugurated a new 1,200-bed building within the campus, built at a cost of Rs 395 crore.
[3] Earlier that month, hundreds of contractual employees of the hospital protested the incomplete payment of salaries.
[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Gujarat High Court highlighted the poor health infrastructure of the hospital, calling conditions in the hospital "pathetic" and "as good as a dungeon", highlighting the lack of ventilators and lack of accountability by senior physicians.
[5][6] After a few days, a new bench of the High Court noted that "administration has geared up and is doing quite well" after observing that the hospital had additional healthcare staff along with 47 ventilators.