About Voluntary Health Services in , Chennai

Voluntary Health Services, VHS Hospital as it is popularly known, is a multispecialty tertiary care referral hospital in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, reportedly serving the economically weaker sections of the society. It was founded in 1958 by Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi, an Indian physician, social worker and a winner of Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards and is run by a charitable non governmental organization<ref name="U.S. AND INDIA COMBAT HIV/AIDS THROUGH AFRICAN PARTNERSHIPS"> of the same name. The hospital is situated along Rajiv Gandhi Salai at Taramani, in Chennai.HistorySrinivas Sanjivi, a senior official with the Madras Medical Service, resigned from the government service in 1958 and with the assistance of some of the prominent social leaders in Chennai such as Kasturi Srinivasan, T. R. Venkatarama Sastri, M. Bhaktavatsalam, and M. A. Chidambaram, he registered a charitable trust under the name, Voluntary Health Services, in July for serving the economically weaker sections of the society. The foundation stone of the hospital building was laid by Jawaharlal Nehru, then prime minister of India in October 1961 and the hospital became functional in July 1963.

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