Low cost heart hospital to come up in Bhubaneswar, Mysore and Siliguri
Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, HEALTHCARE and HOSPITALS, Khordha October 29th. 2010, 1:33amFollowing is an excerpt from a report in Times of India.
India’s first low-cost hospital will be up and running in Mysore early next year.
These state-of-the art hospitals will be built at a cost of Rs 16 crore, about one-fifth the cost of constructing a 300-bed super-speciality hospital.
The brainchild of renowned cardio-surgeon Dr Devi Shetty, this unique hospital will be piloted in Mysore and then in Siliguri (West Bengal) and Bhubaneswar (Orissa). The Union health ministry has evinced interest in the project.
… Narayana Hrudayalaya has tied up with Larsen & Toubro to execute the Mysore project which uses pre-fabricated material transported from Puducherry. The general wards will receive daylight to the desired levels. Only the OT complex and pre/post operation and ICU areas will have a conventional concrete structure.
"Most hospitals today have huge vertical structures with heavy airconditioning. The best sanitiser for hospital is sunlight and fresh air. We don’t want patients to feel intimidated by the hospital. Besides having the best medical facilities, we’ll allow one family member to provide moral support to patients," Dr Shetty said.
In this chain of hospitals, heart surgeries will be performed for Rs 50,000 (compared to Rs 2 lakh or more depending on degree of complications) and other surgeries like gall bladder and hernia will cost between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000.
While hospitals in Mysore, Bhubaneshwar and Siliguri will come up on land given at subsidized rates by the respective state governments, other hospitals will come up on the public private partnership model. "We haven’t come up with a name yet of these hospitals," Dr Shetty said
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October 30th, 2010 at 12:30 am
It is refreshing to note that somebody is thinking differently. Healthcare is increasingly becoming out of reach for many people in the country. At least some positive steps such as the low cost hospital model will help bridge the divide between lackadaisical government hospitals and the hyper-corporatized private hospitals.
It’s also commendable to note that Narayana Hrudalaya is thinking of building a hospital that relies more on sunlight and fresh air.