16th Annual Report 2011-12 - Fortis Healthcare

20 16th Annual Report 2011-12 Message from Chief Executive Officer - India
in Fortis Hospital at Bannerghatta
Road. Also, a rare case of Multiple
Laminotomy and Decompression
of infected cervical spine was
successfully operated upon by our
team of doctors at Fortis Hospital,
Anandpur in Kolkata.
We launched CritiNext (Tele
ICU), a proposal for the integration
of over 500 beds within three years,
to provide distinctive patient care to
the population in Tier 2 and Tier 3
cities. The initiative - “CritiNext –
Converging Critical Care” intends
to bridge the demand-supply gap
of trained manpower in ICUs in
hospitals in remote areas. It will
also help improve the skill set of
the clinicians and nurses in these
cities. Patients would be monitored
and managed by clinical experts
from the Fortis Escorts Central
Command Centre. The three
phase project will witness the
integration of 150 beds in the first
phase. Fortis Escorts has gone live
with the project at Raipur and
Dehradun and plans to add one
facility every month.
Another milestone was the
launch of Fortis International
Centre for Robotic Surgery (Fortis
ICRS) at Fortis Escorts Heart
Institute. It offers comprehensive
robotic surgery procedures
in cardiac, thoracic, urology,
gynaecology, general, head &
neck surgeries and orthopaedics.
This science introduces micro
millimetre precision in the way
surgeries are conducted. Robotic
Surgery is extremely useful in
high risk operations where it is
vital to conserve neighbouring
tissue and protect it from any
collateral damage.
Clinical expertise was further
demonstrated with many more
innovative procedures that were
performed to save patient lives. All
these represent significant strides
that your hospital network has
made in realising the enormous
potential of medical science in
improving the overall quality of
human life.
Many patients require lifelong
care and repetitive assistance
in ensuring that they live life
comfortably and normally. To
address this need, we initiated
the move of routine procedures
such as dialysis to stand-alone
neighbourhood centres. We
launched Renkare, our branded
chain of dialysis centres to further
enhance patient proximity and
our reach in meeting the rising
demand for quality renal dialysis
in the country.
We also launched Fortis
General Hospitals, our secondary
care format focused on making
reliable and affordable healthcare
accessible to a larger section of
the population in Tier 2 and Tier
3 towns. Our endeavour is to make
more of these available across
the country so that many more
patients have access to quality
healthcare at price points that they
can afford.
We aim to significantly enhance
our existing bed capacity with
plans afoot to open new hospitals
in a number of cities such as
Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru
and others. We look forward to
the expected commissioning of
the company’s flagship quaternary
care hospital in Gurgaon in Q2
this year. The hospital will have
many firsts to its credit and will
set a new benchmark for state-ofthe-art
medical care not only in
India, but across the world.
We have had a fine tradition of
medical expertise in the country
and our doctors are highly
regarded for their knowledge
and professional acumen around
the world. This, coupled with
the high level of medical care at