Hyderabad :
With a view to boost the image of Hyderabad globally, Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao hinted at corporate hospitals to capitalise on their expertise and infrastructure in order to tap patients around the world. KCR was attending the launch of Apollo Hospitals ‘eACCESS’ in the city to mark the 26th anniversary of the group on Wednesday.
Touted as a new age technology for round-the-clock monitoring of 500 to 1,000 patients housed in far-away Intensive Care Units (ICUs) by a common pool of intensivists stationed at a command centre, eACCESS is an Apollo Hospitals initiative developed in collaboration with Philips.
Explaining the potential of medical tourism adding a feather to Hyderabad’s brand image, KCR said, “The city can take a lead in medical tourism and the best example has been shown by Apollo Hospitals Group, which attracts patients from 150 countries.”
While underscoring that the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) would attract more people to Hyderabad in addition to the existing 1.25 crore people estimated during the recent intensive household survey, he urged Apollo Hospital chairman Dr Prathap C Reddy to scale up services in the city to meet needs of the growing populace.
KCR also referred to his trips to Singapore and Malaysia and reiterated that the new Telangana government would frame the world’s best industrial policy and provide corruption-free administration for investors from all over the world to flock to Hyderabad.
Telangana deputy chief minister and health minister Dr T. Rajaiah suggested corporate hospitals like Apollo to take up campaign against superstitions, besides health awareness campaigns for preventing diseases in rural areas as part of their corporate social responsibility. “Just like our government’s ‘Mana Vuru Mana Pranalika’, hospital groups like Apollo too should come out with their action plan to benefit rural people,” he said.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Hyderabad / TNN / August 28th, 2014
