About Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital (LTMG, Sion Hospital)
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital (LTMG, Sion Hospital) is one of the premier medical institutions of India. It is one of the four major municipal teaching hospitals in Mumbai, recognized nationally and internationally for its contribution to healthcare. This hospital is in a unique situation of being at the junction of the two major highways entering the city of Mumbai and is the first major referral hospital within the city. It caters to all trauma and disasters from both major highways and has developed into a Trauma Care Centre of international repute.

The hospital caters to more than twenty lakh OPD patients and has more than 80,000 admissions annually. It provides services in all specialties and super specialties.

One of the main strengths of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital has been the Department of ENT with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. The department performs over a thousand major surgeries in a year which include endoscopic sinus and skull base surgeries, head and neck cancer surgeries, airway reconstruction surgeries, microlaryngoscopic surgeries, and ear surgeries including cochlear implants. It is a tertiary referral centre for angiofibroma, being the first department in the country to operate on this tumour endoscopically.

The motto of the hospital and also of the department is ‘Service through Excellence’.

About AOI Mumbai West
ENT and Head Neck Surgery as a speciality has existed for more than a century now; however, the speciality has grown exponentially since the late 1980s and has now turned into a niche field with many subspecialties. With the growth of the specialty, knowledge dissemination and keeping abreast of newer advances became of paramount importance.

Mumbai’s western suburbs also witnessed an exponential increase in population and correspondingly a steady increase in the number of practising ENT surgeons. This led to the recognition of the need for a branch of AOI (Association of Otolaryngologists of India) specifically catering to ENT and Head and Neck surgeons practicing in the western suburbs of the city. By the year 2000, a need to have a registered body was felt. This is how AOI Mumbai West Branch was formed.

Most members of AOI Mumbai West Branch are private practitioners. The very aim of this association has been to provide to our members a platform where they can present their work. Over the last 25 years, members have learnt how to present papers, to prepare surgical videos, and have developed oratorial skills.

AOI Mumbai West Branch is a very vibrant organization. It routinely conducts a number of seminars, CMEs, conferences, and surgical workshops. The Association has won the Best Branch Trophy three times, given by the Federation of Maharashtra State Branches of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India.

It has been conducting the Mumbai Manthan conference successfully for the last two years.