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  "name": "Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital",
  "aliases": [
   "KDAH",
   "Kokilaben Hospital",
   "कोकिलाबेन धीरूभाई अंबानी हॉस्पिटल"
  ],
  "said": "Kokilaben, for Kokilaben Ambani. Mumbai says Kokilaben and means Four Bungalows in Andheri West."
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  "iso2": "IN",
  "ownership": "private",
  "founded": 2009,
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   "oncology",
   "orthopaedics",
   "neurosciences",
   "robotic surgery",
   "transplants"
  ],
  "draws": [
   "knee-replacement",
   "kidney-transplant",
   "gamma-knife",
   "cabg"
  ],
  "status": "open",
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   "English",
   "Hindi",
   "Marathi"
  ]
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  "what": "A 750-bed hospital at Four Bungalows in Andheri West, Mumbai, opened in 2009 and built by the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. It runs over thirty departments and states more than 410 doctors, and it holds four accreditations at once: Joint Commission International, NABH, NABL for its laboratories and the College of American Pathologists.",
  "story": "The hospital was conceived by the cardiac surgeon Nitu Mandke and completed after his death in 2003 under Anil Ambani, opening in 2009. It has since been described as carrying a run of firsts for India and for Asia, among them a three-room intra-operative MRI suite and an EDGE radiosurgery system.\n\n*Inference —* the equipment list is the hospital's pitch, and it aims at a particular patient. A three-room intra-operative MRI is not bought to compete on the price of a knee; it is bought to keep neurosurgical referrals in Mumbai that would otherwise leave the country. That is the other direction of this subject — a hospital built to stop outbound travel rather than to attract inbound.\n\nThe four-accreditation stack is worth reading as what it is. Joint Commission International inspects the hospital, NABH inspects it against the Indian national standard, NABL accredits the laboratories and the College of American Pathologists accredits pathology specifically. Four bodies, four fees, four scopes — and none of them a ranking.",
  "how": "*Trade practice —* Mumbai's corporate hospitals work the Gulf and East African referral routes through an international desk and a quoted estimate, with the visa letter issued against a confirmed appointment. This hospital publishes an international patient section describing what to expect and no price list.",
  "today": "As of 16 September 2026 the hospital states more than 410 doctors across all departments and names Joint Commission International, NABH, NABL and College of American Pathologists accreditation on its own front page. It publishes no price for any procedure. The bed count carried here, 750, comes from reporting rather than from the hospital's own pages."
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  "city": "Mumbai",
  "area": "Maharashtra",
  "country": "IN"
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  "url": "https://www.kokilabenhospital.com/"
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   "tag": "no-price-published",
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   "tier": "cited",
   "note": "no price or implant list on the hospital's own pages, checked 16 September 2026"
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   "by": "other",
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