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Pune to get a quaternary super-speciality hospital

A quaternary super-speciality Woman and Child Hospital will set up near Pune Expressway by 2010. Interestingly, this super-speciality centre will be initiated on the lines of the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, Sydney Westmead Children's Hospital, Australia and Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women, London.

By late 2007, building of the centre will commence, while functioning is expected by 2010. Says Dr B S Ratta, a noted paediatric surgeon who will head the child health services in this hospital, "It was during my training at the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital at London, the idea to set up a similar speciality in India, in nexus with health consultants from the UK cropped up."

Tanveer Inamdar, CEO, TAIN Constructions, who at present is headquartered at Pune, will set up this super-speciality hospital in technical and medical collaboration with Health Systems Limited, UK, specialist e-Health consultants, with an extensive market knowledge in the US, the UK, Europe and other countries worldwide.

A meeting is expected to be conducted soon whereby international as well as national experts involved in the project will brainstorm and fine tune the important needs of the project, the cost and the final bed strength, which would be between 250 to 300 beds.

Says Prof Ricky Richardson, Clinical Director, Health Systems, and a renowned paediatrician, "It is exciting to be involved in the creation of the first super-speciality and maternity hospital in India. I feel that these Centres of Excellence linked by e-Health networks around the world will take care of sick children and improve maternity services in India."

The hospital will emphasise on two basic principles—providing the best medical care in India and making this care available to those who cannot afford it. "The hospital will provide state-of-the-art facilities without compromising on quality healthcare services even for the poor patients," says Dr Ratta. Since there are very few centres which conduct liver transplants, kidney transplants, bone marrow transplants for children, this super-speciality centre will emphasise on these particular treatments. Dr Rajesh Balakrishnan an IVF expert, who will head the obstetrics and gynaecology departments said, "As a practicing obstetrician, I have always felt an acute need for a dedicated women's centre that addresses all their medical requirements under one roof."

Though the project is still in its brainstorming stage, the founders of this ambitious project will give special stress on community health, whereby the poor and needy patients can access state-of-the-art treatments without discrimination. "A special trust will be set up to finance quality treatments for all needy patients," asserts Dr Ratta. In fact, the most noble aspect of this centre, according to Dr Ratta, is that the entire profit generated, will be internalised for this special trust and the developments of the departments.

- EH News Bureau