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Orthopaedics
   Sector C, Vasant Kunj,
 opp Vasant Valley School,
     New Delhi - 110070
 email: info@ isiconline.org
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Vision
Vision

With our vision to bring back hope into the lives of thousands of spinal injured we are a trusted 
provider of medical care, rehabilitation, research, education and advocacy. 

We aim at making patients and their families achieve their greatest possible level of independence. 
We understand that when we assist patients to become independent and productive, it is in their best interest, as well as the best interest of their families, employers, and society as a whole. We are also a resource to our former patients and to the professional community through our CME publications, presentation and consultations.

Our philosophy is not to deprive anyone of medical treatment due to dearth of funds. We strive to 
provide equal services to the economically deprived sections of the society by offering a percentage 
of free and subsidized services.
Besides treating disorders of spine, here at the centre, we are equipped for complete health care. And we believe our task is to strengthen every patient's body mind and spirit. The centre aims to reach the lives of thousands of newly spinal injured every year, by being exclusive in quality and totally accessible in the services.
The saga of the centre began in September 1965 in the war-torn area between India and Pakistan. The two countries had gone to war for the second time in seventeen years, after being one nation just twenty years earlier. A young army officer Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia who had reached the summit of Mt. Everest on 29th May 1965 with the Indian Everest expedition was wounded in the war with Pakistan in September 1965. It was a gunshot wound which left the young officer paralysed, what followed is the triumph of determination - a conquest of the physical problems. "I realised that life was all about climbing the Everest within," says Major Ahluwalia. 
Hardly any facilities existed in India at that time. Major Ahluwalia was thus sent for rehabilitation to Stoke Mandeville Hospital in UK, the worlds then premier Spinal Injury centre. Ahluwalia made up his mind to make his contribution to the spinal injured, as no such centre existed in India. Thus started the Indian spinal Injuries Centre, a tiny seed in the mind of one, who after rehabilitation was now moving from peak to peak, in an effort to conquer the new ones.

Thus a trust was formed in 1984 with Mr. H.C. Sarin (former Ambassador and senior bureaucrat ) as the chairman and registered under the laws of the country. Prime land was purchased in Vasant Kunj adjacent to 8th century historic monument. The then Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone of the centre on 30th March 1989. The civil works were inaugurated in March 1990.

ISIC Now

At present, the Hospital has a state-of-the art Intensive Care Unit apart from the present 90 beds and is in the process of being expanded to 250 beds. It also has three operation theatres with the latest medical equipment that allows surgeons to perform even the most complicated surgeries with ease, ambulance services and a 24 hours emergency centre.
Indian Spinal Injuries Centre has 15 acres of land. The entire covered area of the building as per plans would be around 20,000sq meters. One of the unique features of the building is to provide a totally barrier free environment.

The aim of the centre is to provide world class facilities for medical management, comprehensive rehabilitation (including physical, psychosocial, sexual and vocational rehabilitation), research and training in the field of spinal injuries. The philosophy is to provide equal services to the economically deprived sections of the society by offering a high percentage of free and subsidized services. Since providing spinal cord injury management is most expensive as compared to any other service, and since most of these injuries take place in the economically deprived sections of the society, it became increasingly apparent that generating the recurring expenditure required for quality services at the Centre would pose a major challenge.

GOALS FOR THE MILLENNIUM

  • Upgrading Health & Rehabilitation Services to International standards.
     
  • Expansion of the centre to 250 beds, of which 100 beds are devoted exclusively for management of Spinal Injuries.
     
  • Networking of the centre with the San Raffaele Bio-Medical Scientific park, the largest Centre for biomedical research in Italy.
     
  • Establishing a Specialty centre introducing new techniques in Neurosurgery, Plastic surgery, Urology & Neurology.
     
  • Hi-tech set up for the purpose of training, catalysing and conducting the development of basic and applied biomedical research.
     
  • Establishment of regional centres in India to serve as referral centres.
     
  • To establish a vocation training centre, a gait clinic and a half-way home.
     
  • Profit to be ploughed back for future expansion of the centre for treatment of the economically deprived and indignant patients.
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