Hospital Overview

History of JNI

Jindal Nature Cure Institute (JNI) was founded by Dr. Sitaram Jindal, an eminent industrialist and a philanthropist, in 1978 on the outskirts of Bangalore in a 100 acre campus of lush greenery. Initially it started operating as a charitable hospital under Sitaram Jindal Trust and was known as Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Science (INYS). In 2007, the name was changed to JNI.

Patients with chronic diseases, tired of continuous medication, saw a new lifeline in the Institute’s firm and devoted approach to naturopathy. For a patient, benefit was instant and palpable. Within no time the devotion, discipline and principles of JNI started getting spread by mouth through sharing of experience amongst the patients.

In the late nineties, JNI started with a bed strength of 107 and due to popular demand, exclusively for mid-income group patients, a separate block of 112 beds in standard rooms were added.

By the turn of the millennium, as the Institute moved forward, overall extension took place in phases. Physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Gym, Pathology and Imaging were made available in Manav Charitable Hospital (MCH), an adjacent mainstream hospital together with about 20 other active departments to cater the emergency need of patients. Simultaneously the demand rose further – this time from patients who also looked for better facilities for a comfortable stay. Perforce, JNI came out with a set of accommodations especially suitable for patients who also look for luxury in stay. Gradually, in phases, bed capacity rose to 550 in various categories.

Presently JNI treats about 15000 patients annually suffering especially from various chronic and acute diseases which are otherwise not curable in any other branch of medicine. As JNI treatment is prophylactic, and offers insight as to how to change life for better, the patients carry the learning home for lifelong benefit and many return with their near and dear ones periodically to refresh their learning.

Today’s JNI is a role model of drugless therapy in India and abroad. If there is an awareness today that abuse of drug is dangerous, and a natural lifestyle is the way out, we feel that, – however humble – JNI has a contribution thereto.