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Medical Tourism : Hospitals, Maharastra State Govt Team Up To Lure Medical Tourists
The promotion of healthcare facilities in Maharshtra will be clubbed with promoting the state as a tourist destination, so that foreign patients obtain the benefit of medical treatment and recuperation in one package, says Anupam Verma, honorary secretary of the newly formed Medical Tourism Council of Maharashtra and director, operations, at Hinduja Hospital. The Council will be formally launched on November 19.
To begin with, the Council will target certain international markets from where some patient traffic already exists. These include the Middle-East and Africa. "Our idea is to leverage the advantage we have in these markets, before we scale up the programme to target other markets," says Mr. Verma.
According to some estimates over 80,000 foreign nationals and NRIs come to the country each year to get the medical treatment. And the number is estimated to be growing at a rate of about 30% every year. The influx is especially high in Mumbai, where an average of about 15% of the beds in many hospitals are occupied by foreigners.
However, southern states like Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are known to attract more foreign patients.
[Ref : Economic Times
Nov. 20/2003]
Dengue Detection Kit : CHPL tie-up with Panbio, a world leader in dengue detection kits
CHPL has a tie-up with Panbio, a world leader in dengue detection kits, and is the first company in India to make available the kits and is the market leader in this segment.
The kits are being made available in three categories the rapid test kit and secondary dengue infections in 15 minutes along with two other confirmatory test kits, IgM and IgG, which are enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) based and confirmatory in nature.
In the first ten months of this year alone (January-October), CHPL has sold over 1,000 kits in several dengue affected areas of the country.
[Ref : Business Standard
Nov. 12/2003]
Indian Makes It To The top
Surya Mohapatra , an electrical engineering graduate from Orissa's Sambalpur University, as next CEO of the $4.5 billion Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world's leading provider of medical diagnostics.
As an electrical engineering graduate from Orissa's Sambalpur University, Surya Mohapatra never imagined he would gravitate one day to the area of medical diagnostics, much less head the Fortune 500 leader in the field. But admitted to a London hospital in 1972, when he was doing his Masters, he saw the heart wrenching sight of a toddler undergoing a painful catheterization and invasive procedure to determine an oxygen leak in the heart.
"I didn't like hospitals and I don't like children crying. That was the day I decided to work on non-invasive diagnostic tools and techniques," Mohapatra told the Times New Network in an interview on Monday, hours after he had been penciled in as next CEO of the $4.5 billion Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world's leading provider of medical diagnostics.
He will be on of very few Indian-born to executives of a Fortune 500 company.
[Ref : Times of India Nov. 12/2003]
Rare surgery performed on baby to remove defective
kidney
An intricate laparoscopic surgery to remove a defective kidney was performed on a three month old girl at VS Hospital's department of
pediatric surgery recently.
"A normal kidney removal surgery involves a long incision of six to eight inches. But it is a painful operation and it is not possible to feed the baby for three days or more. Therefore, laparoscopy surgery is needed specially is case of
pediatric patients," he sail.
"Three small incisions of three millimeter each were made into the baby's right abdomen and the kidney was removed. The child had excellent post-operative recovery and could be fed on the same day of the surgery. This is not possible in a conventional surgery," Shah said.
On the first day of her birth, a sonography confirmed that the right kidney was abnormal and the baby's urine flow was blocked a condition known in medical terms as
hydronephrosis.
[Ref : Times of India
Dec. 06/2003]
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