The Rs 500-crore integrated healthcare project is also looking at starting production and commercial supply of biological implants.
The health city, which now comprises a 1,000-bed medical college as well as super specialty hospital, nursing and dental colleges, diagnostic centres and utility centres, was opened for the public in November 2007. In the first phase, the hospital had invested
Rs 200 crore, said Venkat Phanidhar, chief executive officer of Chettinad Health City. “For the teleradiology and telemedicine projects starting soon, we will tie up with secondary care centres across the country and West Asia,” he said.
“Every fourth patient in our hospital is from the north-eastern states and this region will receive special focus. We will tie-up with at least two to three hospitals each in the north of India, north-east, in the south and West Asia,” Phanidhar added.
The secondary care hospitals that CHC is eyeing are 100 to 200-bed ones with essential facilities required for telemedicine and teleradiology. Telemedicine facility will make use of the service of all the experts in different specialties at the hospital. Further, CHC intends to introduce production and commercial supply of implants such as stents, valves and those used for knee-replacements soon.
The Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute is also looking at tie-ups with international institutions. It has already collaborated with Murdoch University in Western Australia, School of Dental Medicine in Tsurumi University, Japan, Nilai University College of Nursing and Masterskill College of Nursing in Malaysia. Around 400 students attend different programmes at its medical, dental and nursing colleges.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Sangeetha G
Quelle/Source: mydigitalfc, 24.05.2009
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