Two top Indian hitech hospitals have sealed a deal to set up collaborative medical services in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, said to be one of its kind. The new deal will turn the First Rivers Hospital Limited (FRHL) into a world-class medical tourist centre in Africa.
The Nigerian hospital signed two different agreements in the city of Pune, India, with Ruby Hall Clinic and Trans-medical Healthcare Limited. The agreements were facilitated by Reneva International Ltd, a management and training consultancy firm based in Port Harcourt.
A statement confirming the agreement which was made available to newsmen in Port Harcourt said the renowned hospital in the garden city, FRHL, achieved this feat in its quest to bring hitech medical solution to the needy in Nigeria.
By this agreement, medical cases can be properly examined and successfully managed in Nigeria without the extra burden of overseas travels while only complicated surgeries can be directed to Ruby Hall Clinics for specialist care requirements which of course will minimise the cost of medical care to patients and their families.
Details indicated that “the parties in these agreements agreed to upgrade the facilities and healthcare services at First Rivers Hospital to a world class level with the latest technologies in X-rays, sonography, CT scan/MRI, cathlab, dialysis centre, diagnostic laboratory, video conferencing suite, etc. as well as providing online/real time and direct access to specialist consultants’ expertise at Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, India”.
Ruby Hall Clinic is indicated as the award-winning hospital for the best medical tourism facility in India in 2012, awarded by the Ministry of Tourism Government of India. “It is India’s most preferred medical destination with internationally renowned healthcare facility and integrated world class healthcare services that blend the 21st century state-of-the-art technology with an upscale luxury environment”.
Ruby Hall is said to have over 700 beds and 150 intensive care beds, over 3,000 staff (including 300 specialist/super consultants, 750 panel doctors and 1500 paramedical staff), 12 diagnostic centres, 4 cathlabs, 20 operation theatres, 2 linear accelerators, PET CT scanner, 3 tesla MRI scanner with broadband facility, 14 MRI machines and 6 CT scanners.
Ruby Hall Clinic is able to provide superior and diverse medical services to patients from anywhere in the world under one roof at affordable costs.
The clinic has one of the largest cardiac centres and cancer units in India with over 150,000 coronary angiographies, 80,000 angioplasties and 70,000 bypass surgeries to date. It is widely recognised as a one stop shop for cancer detection and treatment. Ruby Hall Clinic also has the most advanced centre for bone marrow and stem cell transplant in India. The dialysis unit has 20 modern hemodialysis machines performing over 15,000 dialysis sessions per year.
Sola Olanrewaju, medical director, First Rivers Hospital, said it had been his long standing vision to provide the best healthcare services to the citizenry for some time.
source: http://www.businessdayonline.com / Business Day / Home> Health Business & Living / by Ignatius Chukwu / July 23rd, 2013
