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Apollo
to intensify its nation-wide presence, plans to go international
Apollo Hospital Enterprises is planning to intensify its presence
throughout India by setting up 120-bed hospitals in seven
mini-metros and a couple of pure cardiac hospitals in the
South. Besides, its also planning to establish an Institute
of Minimal Invasive Surgery in association with Johns Hopkins
Medicine International, USA, in one of the major cities in
the country.
Dr
Agarwal Hospital installs endothelial cell microscope
Dr Agarwal group of eye hospitals has upgraded their eye treatment
facilities in Bangalore, recently. It has installed endothelial
cell microscope (ECM) in Hosur Road hospital for actively
pursuing stem cell research and has achieved some promising
results.
CMC
becomes India’s first infectious diseases training and
research centre
Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore became the first
hospital in the country to open an Infectious Disease Training
and Research Centre (IDTRC), in collaboration with the Centre
for Tropical Diseases, Haukeland University and Bergen, Norway.
His Excellency Jon Westborg, the Ambassador of Norway inaugurated
the training centre at Vellore.
India
needs a continuously improving, self-regulating, patient-centred
healthcare delivery system
If India is to improve its healthcare delivery mechanism and
become a preferred healthcare destination, as pronounced in
the National Health Policy, a necessary prerequisite is the
setting up of internationally acceptable and highly credible
accreditation systems. This was the central theme that echoed
during the proceedings of the “National Convention for
Achieving Excellence in Healthcare in India” held recently
at Delhi.
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