Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Feb 24, 2003
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New Projects Wockhardt planning cluster of hospitals Chitra Phadnis
BANGALORE, Feb. 23 WOCKHARDT plans to set up a cluster of four new speciality hospitals in a single complex in Bangalore over the next 16-18 months. According to the Bangalore Centre Manager, Mr Vishal Bali, the company has identified land in south Bangalore for the project. The Bangalore hospitals will be modelled on the recently opened speciality hospitals in Mumbai. The four hospitals in Mumbai are the Wockhardt brain and spine, bone and joint, eye and minimum access surgery hospitals. "Wockhardt has always believed in single speciality hospitals, dealing in any one area." The company is also putting up an IT infrastructure to connect all hospitals in the country together. The IT infrastructure will allow the flow of information between doctors of all the centres. It will also help put in place a system to allot each patient a unique ID number. Patients can go to any of the Wockhardt hospitals with their ID numbers, based on which doctors will be able to pull out patient records from their digital databases. This would be part of the hospital's focus on healthcare delivery to the "healthcare consumer" as the patient is now called. Wockhardt has a "preferred provider" alliance with the Harvard Medical School. A lot of the company's initiatives are based on inputs from Harvard, according to Mr Bali. The company is extending IT to yet another area - telemedicine. This will be restricted to the hospital and its associate centres initially. The Bangalore centre will have links to the Baptist Hospital on Bellary Road, Ananya Hospital in Rajajinagar and hospitals in Chitradurga, and Erode. The solutions are being created for dial uplinks, "which is the ground reality in these regions" rather than satellite links, Mr Bali said. A similar project will be implemented in and around Mumbai. And as in the case of IT, the medical field is also seeing the return of a lot of senior doctors to work in India from abroad. In Wockhardt alone, a cardiac surgeon from Boston, Dr K.N. Srinivas from Australia and an ophthalmic surgeon from London reflect the trend. As the infrastructure becomes better and on par with that in the rest of the world, people who have trained and worked abroad are now coming back, Mr Bali said.
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