Monday 30th October 2024: Over 100 Hindu medics at Manchester Royal Infirmary came together to mark Diwali. In addition to switching on lights across the Oxford Road Campus, Lakshmi Puja was performed inside the Board Room of the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT). Covering 11 hospitals, the MFT is the largest NHS trust in the UK. This year’s Diwali celebrations at the MFT was the culmination of 3 years of effort by the Hindu Staff Network at the Trust.
MFT was not the only NHS trust to mark Diwali, celebrations were held in Leciester, Plymouth and Bradford, and for the first time in Stoke.