Parel

 

Health and the City 

Dadar West + Parel

 

Dr E Borges Road

Cancer Patients near Tata Memorial as the Covid19 infections started in India

Vashi

Assam Bhavan, Navi Mumbai 

Lachit Borphukan statue and a cancer patient's caregiver who is staying in Assam Bhavan.

Dadar Station

The news buses from Dadar to KEM are super convenient 

Hindmata

Caner patients and their families living under the Hindmata Flyover. 

Dr BR Ambedkar Road

Acharya Donde Marg

Metastasis:Cancer in Mumbai.

Patients from Bengal living on the road divider under the Mono Rail Station. KEM/Haffkine Institute watching youngsters from Parel village practicing drums before the Ganpati festival.

Jerbai Wadia

Metastasis:Cancer in Mumbai, Children Of Mumbai.

VL Pednekar Marg

Jerbai Wadia Road

Sion-Panvel Highway

Far away from the two Tata Memorial Hospitals, this desperate message from a patient stuck at a bus stop. 

VT

Metastasis:Cancer in Mumbai. 

 The reserved coach for cancer patients in a Mumbai Local train.

Jerbai Wadia Marg, Pednekar Road, St Xavier Street

Metastasis:Cancer in Mumbai

A few lodges around the Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel. Hotel rates in Mumbai are high compared to the rest of India and beyond the reach of most patients who come here from the East. Affordable rooms for patients in OPD and their relatives and familiar food is found all around the hospital.

Even Google Maps marks the place in Bengali/Bangla.

While there are several small Bengali eateries all around, you also get the standard Indian vegetarian restaurant. Here is one called New Arogya Bhavan or the House of Health (new).

Unlike the old days, there are fewer posters selling Ayurvedic and other alternative cures around the hospital. This poster for Ayurvedic Treatment promises treatment for side effects for Chemo Therapy.

The C/O address for the treatment of side effects is the caterer who runs the eatery in the background.

Parel

A message from Christian evangelists outside the Tata Memorial Hospital for cancer, 

A message from Brahmakumaris, a religious sect outside the Tata Memorial Hospital for cancer treatment. 

Metastasis. 

Like everything else in this city, even the fallout of Cancer spills out on to the streets of Mumbai. While hospitals try to cure the body, cancer seems to attract the fishermen of souls as the signboards around the hospital show.

A small shrine for the Father of the Nation outside a shop opposite the cancer hospital. 

People come from far and wide to the Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel, Mumbai. Bengali signs are common.

prayer bells