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Following is an excerpt from a report in Hindu.

"As India has been declared as diabetes capital of the world, a world class diabetes care facility is badly needed in the country," director of Cuttack Diabetes Research Foundation (CDRF), Dr Alok Kanungo, told reporters here.

Billed as the first of its kind in eastern India, the ultra modern Rs 15 crore Kanungo Institute of Diabetes Specialities (KIDS) would be inaugurated here by chief minister Naveen Patnaik on November 14, coinciding with the World Diabetes Day, he said.

World centres like Karolinska institute of Sweden which decides Nobel prize in medicine has joined hands with KIDS and CDRF to extend all technical support for advance research and training, said Kanungo.

"The institute will be equipped with latest equipment, trained manpower, fully computerised systems and everything which is required for diabetes management," he said adding it would be a boon for not only Orissa, home to over 30 lakh diabetics, but for entire eastern India.

Diabetics are 25 times more likely to turn blind, 17 times more prone to kidney ailment and three times more prone to heart disease, said Kanungo.

Kids would initially have a 100-bed hospital block, out patient block to handle 1000 patients per day for treatment, major and minor operation theatres, foot care, eyecare, kedney, cardiology, neurology, nutrition, physiotherapy and other departments.

Following is an excerpt from a report in Economic Times.

IT major Infosys today said it would invest Rs 500 crore in Orissa for setting up an SEZ in IT and ITeS sectors and take care of children’s mid-day-meal scheme and healthcare services.

“We have proposed to set up an IT SEZ in Bhubaneswar. The project will require 50 acres of land”, T V Mohandas Pai, Director HR, ER and administration and member of board of Infosys, told reporters here.

… Pai who had been funding mid-day meal for 10,000 school children in Nayagarh district, also agreed to extend the programme to Gajapati and Kandhamal districts, official sources said. Besides, 30,000 children in Puri district were also getting midday meal in Puri district.

“We have been spending Rs 6.50 per child to provide quality food,” Pai said pointing out that Infosys had spent Rs 5.5 crore towards its corporate social responsibility.

Shetty, who had been providing health care service to BPO staff, urged Patnaik to allot five-seven acres of land in the city for setting up a 1,000-bed heart hospital.

As the city was gradually becoming a IT hub of Eastern India with almost all major players opening their development centres, employees required quality heath service, Shetty said.

“We have also requestedthe state government to help Shetty set up a heart hospital here”, Pai told reporters.

Following is an excerpt from a report in New Indian Express.

Sparsh Hospital is planning to come up with a 250-bed set up in the City. The new project would house all super speciality facility under one roof.

Currently, Sparsh is an 80-bed hospital with a modern OTS, ICU, dialysis unit, casualty, pathology and radiology units.

Promoted by a team of young professionals and cancer specialist Dr Ghanashyam Biswas, the hospital has tied up with a number of corporate houses and is running a series of programmes like free health check-up camps.

Following is an excerpt from a news report in Pioneer.

Vedanta Aluminium Limited signed an MoU with the Apollo Health & Life Style Limited on Tuesday to open two units of The Apollo Clinics at Lanjigarh and Jharsuguda.

The MoU was signed at the Vedanta office in Bhubaneswar by M Siddiqi, Director and CEO, Aluminium Sector, Vedanta Group, and Ratan Jalan, CEO, Apollo Health & Life Style Ltd, in the presence of Vedanta Aluminium CFO Virendra Agrawal, GM and Head, PR & CSR, Prashanta Hota and other officials form both sides.

The MoU deals with the establishment and management of the two well-equipped Apollo Clinics, which would be fully supported by Vedanta Aluminium. Funded fully by Vedanta, the two units have accepted the responsibility of recruiting doctors, providing all kinds of diagnostic facilities, specialist treatment, extending other modern healthcare facilities and running the clinics at both locations.

Involving a total investment of about Rs 5 crore, the day-to-day operations would also be fully funded by Vedanta.

Besides rendering quality healthcare services to the project-impacted people and employees of Vedanta Aluminium and their dependents, the clinics would be running a Sick Bay Unit in the plant premises and regularly conduct Outreach Programmes in the periphery villages.

Update: Also reported in http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/200803/market17.shtml.

Following is an excerpt from a report in Moneycontrol.com.

… Asian Heart Institute, India’s most trusted leading Cardiac Care Hospital announced the plans of opening its latest multi specialty hospital in Chandrasekharpur, Orissa. Spread on an area of 1,50,000 square feet, a 300 bed hospital is being built with an investment of Rs 150 crores.

The foundation stone of Asian Hospital and Research Centre (AHRC) has been laid and the hospital will start functioning from 2010. The hospital will provide treatment to various medical specialties such as Cardiology, Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Orthopedic, Urology, Endocrinology, Dental, Dermatology, Diabetology, Gastroenterology, ENT, Geriatrics, Hematology, ,Neonatology, Nephrology ,Neurology, Obstetrics, Gynecology ,Ophthalmology, Urology, Paediatrics, Physiotherapy, Cosmetic surgery, Orthopaedic surgery, Respiratory medicine, Rheumatology , Thoracic surgery, and several others.

… The hospital will offer round-the-clock emergency services to the patients. It will have 12 ultra modern operations theatres, 100 intensive care units, fully equipped modernized Pathology Services, Radiology, Imaging Services, Blood Bank, 24hrs Pharmacy Services and Cardiac Ambulance Services with Mobile Cathlab.

Following is an excerpt from a report in New Indian Express.

Announcing the formal operationalisation of this 120-bedded multi-specialty care hospital, one of its promoters Dr Ashok Acharya said, the centre would set new benchmarks in health care facilities in the State.

The hospital has earmarked 39 beds for critical care, in keeping with the prescribed national ratio. The hospital will have full time consultants in all super specialty branches along with two tier of senior and junior residents.

Besides, there will also be floor free operating theatres and ICUs. Dr Kamal Lochan Mohapatra, the other promoter of the hospital, informed that Ayush Hospital will have advanced radio diagnostics for 0.35 Telsa MRI units, multi detector CT scan, mammography, all kinds of video scopies besides a critical cardiac care ambulance.

While the hospital project took 18 months to be complete, the promoters are busy adding to its infrastructure.

Following are excerpts from a report in the New Indian Express.

Bhubaneswar: … L V Prasad Eye Institute here on Wednesday opened three new specialised eye centres. They are ‘Centre for diabetic eye disease,’ ‘Centre for sight enhancement’ and ‘Eye trauma centre.’

… The ‘Centre for diabetic eye disease’ would play a critical role in attending to diabetic patients suffering from visual disability. It is estimated that about 5.7 million people in India alone suffer from ‘diabetic retinopathy.’

It is preventable and can be treated. All that a diabetic individual needs to do is consult a physician in such centre for annual retinal examination and early detection of diabetic retinopathy. Such a step would significantly reduce the risk of visual loss in diabetic individuals.

National Thermal Power Corporation has donated about Rs 2 crore for setting up the three centres. The ‘Centre for sight enhancement’, similarly, promises quality treatment for children suffering from low vision. Estimate suggests that about 2.70 lakh children in India suffer from this defect.

In fact, congenital conditions such as ‘hereditary macular degeneration,’ ‘congenital glaucoma’ and ‘congenital eye’ anomalies account for the majority of visual impairment seen in children.

With the opening of the ‘Eye trauma centre’, the hospital aims to provide a comprehensive one stop care to patients with eye injury. Over a period of time, the institute plans to extend this to a 24X7 service, as in most of the accident cases, one needs immediate treatment to salvage the vision.

On the occasion, L V Prasad Eye Institute director Dr T P Das said the institute is contemplating to set up a school for eye care professionals in the next five years.

The institute provides 25 percent of outpatient services and 40 percent surgeries free of cost.

Following is an excerpt from a report in Statesman on this.

Care Hospital today announced its plans to commission a 100-bed multi-specialised Aditya Care Hospital located near Municipal Kalyan Mandap at Chandrasekharpur.
… The Group will be investing around Rs 15 crores in the project and the facility will be scaled up to 300 beds over the next two years with an additional investment of Rs 50 crores.

The Bhubaneswar centre will be equipped to handle comprehensive cardiac services, including catheterisation procedures and cardiac surgeries. The focus will also be on gastroenterology, laparoscopic/gastro surgery; nephrology and urology; neurosurgery along with critical care and trauma care. For the first time in Orissa, a team of eight cardiologists will be attending to the needs of patients at the Aditya Care Hospital.

Talking to reporters here yesterday Dr Veeraprasad, Chief Operating Officer, Care Hospitals said, “… Nearly 20 full-time professionals will provide comprehensive medical services in a unique concept of teams and the unit will be networked to support secondary and primary health care units in the state.’’

Following is an excerpt from a Hindu report.

Apollo will offer the services of Deccan Aviation’s helicopters at its centres in Bangalore, Delhi, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata, where it has either roof helipads or landing facilities.

Various news reports mention this in the context of Apollo’s recent announcement regarding its plan in Mumbai and Chennai. Following is an excerpt from a Business Standard report.

She said the company would soon start work on construction of their hospitals in Ahmedabad, Vishakapatnam and Bhubaneshwar.

Last year news reports mentioned about this with numbers. Following is an excerpt from a Money control� report of last year.

She also says that they have acquired a five-acre land in Bhubaneswar where they are putting up a 250-bed hospital.

Pioneer reports on Orissa government’s plan to increase the number of beds in the Cuttack cancer center. Following are some excerpts.

The State Government on Tuesday decided to increase the number of beds in the Acharya Harihara Regional Cancer Centre in Cuttack. This is the only Government institute in the State that offers medical treatment to a large number of cancer patient in and outside the State. The State Government has already accorded autonomous status to this institute.

… However, the State now, boasts of a few private medical institutions which offers treatment to the cancer patients. But, still it is beyond the reach of the common man.

… the State Government has decided to refurbish the medical institutions. …

As per the decision, another 70 beds will be added to the existing strength of 146. With this the number of beds will come to 216. Out of the 70 beds, 50 will be accommodated in the cabins and other in general wards.

Another 150 staff nurses will be given appointment. All the patients will be provided AC room facilities at least for a period of four months and provided with colour TV sets, having cable connection.

… the State Government had approached the Centre to provide at least Rs 7 crore to get modern equipment like the Linear Accelerator. “Once this hospital gets the machine, cancer treatment will be more scientific and the treatment will be made more focused one,” …

Telegraph reports that AMRI hospital plans to set up a state of the art hospital in Bhubaneswar. Following are excerpts of that report.

AMRI Hospitals today unveiled its ambitious expansion plan to set up four state-of-the-art hospitals in four state capitals — Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Raipur and Patna.

Each of the four hospitals will be set up with an initial investment of over Rs 110 crore, with room for future expansion. …

AMRI Hospitals, a joint venture between Emami and Shrachi group of industries, is venturing out of Calcutta for the first time.

… Aditya Agarwal, director, told The Telegraph that the first of the four hospitals will come up at Bhubaneswar.

The hospital will come up at Khandagiri Square, a prime location in Bhubaneswar and will have 300 beds initially.

“It will come up on 5 acres. Initially, it will be a five storey affair, but we have plans and enough room for further expansion,” Agarwal said and added that the hospital at Bhubaneswar is expected to start operation by 2009.

It will have, apart from facilities available at any multi-speciality hospital of international standard, super-speciality thrust on cardiology, orthopaedics and neurology, Agarwal claimed.

“Our hospital in Bhubaneswar will have emergency and outdoor facilities. We will deploy most sophisticated equipment and staff, including doctors, there. It will also have state-of-the-art ICCU, ITU and NITU and life-support systems,” the director informed.

Apart from giving people access to ‘healthcare facilities of international standard’, the hospital will also generate a lot of job opportunities, he claimed.

“The hospital in Bhubaneswar will initially have some 1,000 employees, including medical, para-medical and non-medical staff. The first preference will obviously be to recruit local people. …

Among other facilities, the hospital will have a parking bay, cafeterias and playground to mention only a few standard facilities available in any major hospital, he said.

“We have earmarked an estimated Rs 120 crore on this hospital. However, more investment will be made according to the requirement for future expansion.”

“The foundation laying ceremony at Bhubaneswar will be held on July 14. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik, finance minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadai, industry minister Biswabhusan Harichandan, minister of works and housing A.U. Singh Deo and health minister Duryodhan Majhi will be present on the occasion,” Agarwal informed. …

Agarwal added that AMRI Hospitals, a joint venture between Emami and Sharachi groups, has plans to establish at least one medical college in one of the four state capitals.

“Talks in that direction are on. We also plan to have some specialised medical and nursing training facilities. A decision on this matter will be taken soon,” he declared.

(Thanks to Jibanendra babu and Orissa Today google group for pointer to this report.)

Various news reports mention that CARE hospital plans to open a 100 bed hospital in Bhubaneswar in July.

Financial Express reports the establishment of a new multi-specialty hospital in Bhubaneswar. Following are excerpts of that report.

The Orissa-based Ayush Hospital & Trauma Care Pvt Ltd (AHTC) is setting up a multi-speciality hospital in Bhubaneswar with an investment of Rs 13.5 crore.

“The hospital is ready and it will be thrown open for patients from the first week of July 2007”, the founder director of the hospital, Dr Ashok Acharya, told FE. …

Besides the cardiac facilities, the hospital will have to its credit an MRI unit and a critical care ambulance that can bring critical patients from any corner of the state.

The site orissamedical.com has a lot of information on the medical and health infrastructure of Orissa. Among them it not only has a comprehensive list of the various medical, pharmacy and nursing colleges in Orissa but also has the list of doctors in the three private medical colleges in Orissa:

• Hi-tech medical college and hospital, Bhubaneswar
• Kalinga Institute of Medical Science (KIMS), Bhubaneswar
• Inst of Medical Sciences and SUM hospital, Bhubaneswar

Note: KIMS now appears in the MCI site that lists MCI approved medical institutions of India.

Tyre and Accessories reports the Applo Tyres group plans to invest Rs 4,000 million in expanding health care venture. At present the company is looking at a number of prospective cities including locations in Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Vadodara, Coimbatore, and Bhubaneswar.