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Apollo
Hospitals group to form JV with Parkway of Singapore
Apollo Hospitals
group is forming a joint venture with Parkway Hospitals group of
Singapore to set up psuper-speciality hospitals outside India and
Singapore. Apollo Hospitals group chairman Prathap C Reddy said that
to start with the joint venture would have 11 hospitals to manage.
Apollo Hospitals group has applied to the Insurance Regulatory
Authority of India for licence to operate as third party
administrators. Dr. Reddy said that after going through the
insurance guidelines, "We have decided to act as TPAs". He
said that the group has signed up 895 hospitals and 9,000 doctors
across the country to act as the link between patients, doctors and
insurance companies.
Apollo
Group is also setting up a healthcare portal – Apollolife.com –
where UTI has picked up around two percent stake at Rs.250 per
share. This is expected to go live by March 2001, Dr. Reddy said.
Apollo Group is also setting up Apollo Lifestyle Clinics across the
country.
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Accountability
Ordinance for Private Hospitals on the cards
A series of measures to improve health
services in the country, the Centre is considering promulgating an
accountability ordinance for private hospitals and nursing homes,
making mandatory a refresher course for doctors and setting up a
grants commission to help medical colleges.
"The government
will come out with an ordinance for the working of the hospitals as
there should be some minimum standard for private sector hospitals and
nursing homes," Union health minister CP Thakur said. The
government would bring a model Bill for this purpose later, the
minister said adding that he had convened a meeting of state health
ministers to discuss the issue aimed at giving top priority to the
accountability of mushrooming hospitals in the country. Stating that
the most of the medical colleges in the country suffered from
inadequate resources, the minister said he had mooted an idea of
creating a "medical grants council" on the pattern of
University Grants Commission to provide financial assistance to
medical colleges and hospitals. He said the government had also
decided to link medical colleges with the national medical library
here on-line.
Emphasising on the
importance of the Indian system of medicine, the minister said while
Ayurveda exports fetched Rs.30,000 crore to the Chinese economy, India
has been able to get only Rs.250 to Rs.400 crore a year. Keeping this
in view, the government had initiated action to constitute a Rs.1,000
crore "medical plant board" to encourage various states to
the cultivation of medical plants, getting depleted because of
deforestation, and explore the possibility of export potential, Thakur
said.
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Landmark
achievement by Nadiad Kidney Hospital
The Muljibhai Patel
Urological Hospital has added one more feather to its cap. The
hospital which is famous for treating patients who suffer from kidney
diseases has recently crossed the 1000 mark of kidney transplant
operations within a period of two decades, becoming the first
transplant centre in Gujarat State to achieve this feet. According to
chief surgeon and the trustee of the hospital, Dr. Maheshbhai Desai,
the hospital caters to the needs of patients from Gujarat, Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra predominantly. The cost for undergoing
kidney transplant operation in this hospital is the cheapest compared
to hospitals in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai.
The special feature of
this hospital is that the success rate of the transplant patients in
this centre is comparable to the international standard. This was
confirmed by Mr Peter Robertson, Clinical Research Co-ordinator of
Vidamed International, Australia. Mr Robertson has a wide experience
of having carried out the research activities in the hospitals in
Australia, the US, Singapore and Belgium.
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