FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE - Digital Edition

hospital news
FICCI lauds move to accord
‘industry status’ to hospitals
The Federation of Indian Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),
the largest business organisation
in the country, has welcomed the
government’s announcement of
according ‘industry status’ and support
for land acquisition, clearances and
funding to private hospitals to boost
expansion of healthcare infrastructure in
tier 2 and 3 cities.
“In India, a skewed distribution
of hospital beds, with their heavy
concentration in the metros, has long
been a challenge in reaching the last
mile with quality healthcare provision.
This opportune step by the government
strongly reinforces private healthcare
providers’ commitment towards
improving access to quality care,” said
Sangita Reddy, Senior VP, FICCI, and
Joint MD, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd,
in a media release.
In the last decade, 70% of the
new bed capacity additions were in
the private sector, which also caters to
70% of the in-patient and 60% of the
outpatient healthcare demand in the
country.
“The key to engage more private
healthcare organisations will be a viable
model for their sustainability,” said Brig
Dr Arvind Lal, Chair, FICCI Health Services
Sangita Reddy
Committee and CMD, Dr Lal Path Labs
Ltd. The new hospitals, which would
be mandated to be empaneled under
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana
(PMJAY), or Ayushman Bharat, should
be allowed to charge other patients
who can afford to pay as per market
rates, as the current PMJAY package
rates may not be sustainable to set up
and run operations in such locations, he
said.
Apart from aiding the expansion
of bed capacity, the new hospitals will
open avenues for employment in tier
2 and 3 cities in the healthcare sector,
FICCI said in the statement.
Paras opens
multi-specialty
hospital at Panchkula
Paras Healthcare has inaugurated a new,
232-bed multi-super-specialty hospital
in Panchkula, Haryana.
Paras Hospitals Panchkula will
provide comprehensive cancer care
facilities ranging from chemotherapy,
surgical oncology, radiation therapy and
nuclear medicine. Equipped with a PET
CT scan centre, radiation oncology
will include the latest third generation
technology of LINAC along with VMAT,
IGRT and IMRT.
The hospital will have 44 specialties,
including cardiology, cardiac surgery,
orthopaedics and joint replacement,
nephrology and kidney transplant, cancer
care, gastroenterology and GI surgery,
urology, neurology and neurosurgery.
Located near Nada Sahib Gurudwara,
this is Paras Healthcare’s second hospital
in the city after Paras Bliss which has been
providing specialized mother and child
care, reports said.
Manipal Hospitals launches lifesaving
care training for public
Aimed at creating awareness
and training people with lifesaving
techniques, Manipal Hospitals
Bengaluru organized ‘You can save life
anywhere’ campaign coinciding with
World Ambulance Day.
The campaign kicked off with
Manipal Ambulance Response
Services (MARS) ambulance rally to
spread the message of ‘Give Way
Save a Life’ to the public. The training
programmes for the public included
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
and automated external defibrillator
(AED).
People can further avail these
training programmes across all the
hospitals of Manipal by booking via
the hospital’s website. The training will
be available every second Saturday of
the month. Initially, the hospital aims
to train people in batches starting
with admin staff of metro and malls
in Bengaluru, police, students and the
general public.
GPS-enabled MARS vehicles
are equipped with critical lifesaving
systems. Manipal’s fleet of ambulance
also has Central Monitoring System,
which relays images of patient
condition direct to Emergency
Response Centre.
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