Mangalore : AJ Hospital and research Cente has been accredited with NABH Accreditation. National Accreditation board and healthcare providers (NABH), is  a fully autonomous Constituent Board of the Quality council of India (QCI), that  has been set up to establish and operate accreditation programs for hospitals, health care organization and sets benchmarks including industry, consumers and government  and  is itself accredited by the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua).

This was informed to reporters here on March 21, Thursday by Dr Prashanth Marla. He said the accreditation would benefit the patients the most as they will get best care, services and treatment by professionally trained and well qualified medical and para-medical staff.

 The A J Hospital and research centre was set up  in the year 2001, with the objective of providing world class healthcare facilities in Mangalore. A J Hospital and research centre has many firsts to its credit in the field of patient care and of providing latest equipment. The hospital has also maintained very high quality standards and was the first hospital in this region to get

Dr Ramesh Pai, Dean of A J Institute of Medical Sciences, said a student of the institute Dr Santhosh Narayanan, has individually bagged highest number of gold medals and secured 1st rank from first year to final year and this is the first time in history of the university to get first rank and bag highest individual gold medals.

Dr Santosh Narayanan will receive the “A J Institute President Gold Medal” from the Chairman of A J Hospital A J Shetty, while  Dr Ramesh Pai will confer, “Highest scoring Student Award”  to him on convocation day.

Vice President Prashanth Shetty, Dental Dean Dr Suresh Chandra and others were present.