ABOUT US

Varma Union Hospital PVT LTD was established during the year 1959 & is situated in the western part of Indore city since last 61 years.

LT. Dr. R.C. Varma graduated from Nagpur Medical College in the year 1953 having obtained first position in the University in the final M.B.B.S examination and was awarded Gold Medal for the same. Having completed one year’s house job in Medicine and Surgery he proceeded to England for further Medical Training and passed the F.R.C.S. examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London during the year 1957. The same year he returned to India and joined M.G.M. Medical College at Indore, as Lecturer in orthopaedic Surgery. Having served in this capacity for two years he resigned from Govt. service and started Varma Union Hospital PVT LTD at Indore in the year 1959. At that time this was the only fully fledged Surgical Hospital in the city. LT. Dr. Varma & Dr. Mrs Varma worked day in & day out. The Hospital flourished well from day first. LT. Dr. Varma being trained in general surgery & orthopaedic surgery and his wife trained in Anaesthesia made this hospital grew rapidly.

At the beginning this hospital was started in a rented building in the heart of the town and three years later the hospital was shifted to the present premises. Thus the hospital today is one of the pioneering Institutes of the city with a reputation spread all over the state fetching patients from far and wide areas.

Our greatest achievement in not that the hospital has treated thousands of patients but that it still retains shining reputation as a centre of excellence with ethical humanitarian medical practice.

Department of orthopaedic was established during the year 1959 by LT. Dr. R.C. Varma FRCS Eng. During the last 61 years few lac patients must have got the treatment and have got well.

orthopaedic Surgery deals with trauma and diseases of locomotors function of the body i.e. the part of the body which allows us to move about, perform, our daily routine work and also our specialized professional work and all that work that helps meet our living & loving requirements. This means this surgery deals with bones, joints, muscles, nerves, spinal column. Good posture, well poised gait, running, playing, excellence in work, writing all comes within the scope of orthopaedic. Trauma sustaining fractures of Bones, Joint dislocation, lacerations of muscles, nerve injuries are included in orthopaedic.

Setting & fixing of fractures, mobilizing injured and stiff joints, and repair ruptured muscles, tendons, and nerves are the basics of orthopaedic Surgery. Replacement of damaged or worn out joints has now become a routine practice in orthopaedic. Now days the numbers of patients in orthopedic department are increasing drastically because of increased number of accidents, injuries due to overcrowded vehicle on road and over populated cities.

Key hole surgery, closed nailing of fractured bones, arthroscopic surgeries, poly trauma, intensive care of poly traumatic patients, joint replacement surgeries are new in orthopaedic. All these facilities are included in our 100 bedded fully equipped hospitals with well trained and experienced staff both medical and non medical. Scope of orthopaedic surgery has greatly increased in the recent years.

LT. Dr. Varma had performed the first K nailing during the year 1959. It was big news in the local News papers that LT. Dr. R. C. Varma has inserted a steel rod in the Femur bone. It was the first operation of its kind in the central India. Dr. LT. R.C. Varma had performed the first total hip replacement surgery in Indore in the year 1983. He is the pioneer in the replacement surgery of Madhya Pradesh.

Medical Director

Varma Union Hospital Pvt Ltd specializes in trauma care. This part of orthopaedic is a strong footage of our organization. The hospital is well equipped with trauma care 24 hours a day. On an average about 150 trauma patients are getting the treatment in the hospital per month. Hospital is dealing with different kinds of poly trauma where multi organs are involved.

The Hospital has a very good team of Doctors, paramedics, ICU doctors to take care of the trauma patients. We in the hospital have a special technique for long bone fractures fixacation. Long bones like femur, tibia, humerus, radius ulna are treated with Key hole Interlocking nailing. Key Hole Interlocking Nailing is a technique where long nails are inserted the bone marrow without opening the fracture site. The operations are finished just in three stitches. One stitch for the insertion of nail second for proximal locking & third for distal locking. In this technique no incession is given at the fracture site which helps in the healing of the bone much faster & without a permanent scar on the body. The special techniques which we have are Interlocking Femur, Tibia, Humerus, Closed rush nailing for radius ulna, Gamma Nailing, Recon Nailing, Supra-condilar nailing, Liss platting. Special Techniques for the joint fractures we have Cobra platting, T platting for Barton’s Reverse Richards for supracondilar femur, hockey platting for tibial condyl, Liss platting etc.

All the necessary equipment & instruments are available with the hospital. The patient is mobilized the very second day with the help of the walker. In this technique joint stiffness in not there. By the time the patient is discharged, he has a complete range of movement in all the joints.

The whole spectrum for managing acute & choice illnesses with surgical for surgical, pharmacological & now pharmacological treatment modalution are available.

Managing Director

Mr. Ashwini Varma is the Managing Director of the hospital. He has a long term visionary plan to develop Varma union hospital Pvt. Ltd. into a state of the art super speciality development and research institute with national and international collaboration.
2021 marks the 63rd year of VUH’s excellence in patient care. From its small beginnings as a 5 bedded nursing home, VUH has transformed into a multi-specialty hospital with over 100 beds.
Throughout the years, VUH has remained at the forefront, being a preferred choice of hospitals. It has always had amongst the most reputed doctors leading each practice. Supporting our doctors is an outstanding team of nursing, technical and support staff who strive each day to ensure patients get the best possible care and treatment.
The outbreak of the pandemic has been a reminder to all of us of the immense importance of having robust healthcare systems and infrastructure. The provision of adequate healthcare has become a daunting challenge in every country across the world. In these very difficult times, we are proud that VUH has set a benchmark by providing the highest clinical care to COVID patients, as is evident from the recovery rate of our patients.
Yet, we recognise that we need to maintain a judicious balance between caring for COVID and non-COVID patients. At VUH, we have used our collective expertise and put in place the requisite protocol and segregations so as to provide care, comfort and utmost confidence to our non-COVID patients as well.
The role of the Management of VUH is to ensure that the highest level of medical ethics stays embedded in every sphere of activity undertaken at VUH. Nothing is more important to us than upholding the principles of equality, fairness and non-discrimination in treating our patients.
Whilst we face our greatest healthcare crisis in living memory, we know that at VUH we must, with renewed vigour, continue to focus on our expansion plans within our complex. We will put in concerted efforts to adhere to timelines for the completion of construction of the new building. We are excited about our future as this will enable us to accommodate a much larger number of patients in a new state-of-the-art facility.
As the Managing Director of VUH, it is indeed a personal honour to be associated with of one of Indore’s most renowned hospitals.
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