From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 07:02 PM IST
This west coast metropolis Monday got a new world-class healthcare facility in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute (KDAH), a 730-bedded private hospital with over 100 outpatient departments, that has come up in the southern suburb.
The KDAH, located in the posh Four Bungalows area of Andheri, a north-west suburb, was inaugurated Monday.
The hospital also has 115 intensive care units, including paediatric and neo-natal, plus centres for bone and joint, brain and nervous system, cancer, cardiac sciences, children and rehabilitation, according to a hospital statement.
The 17-storeyed building with two basements has facilities on one million square feet area, a health saloon, a medical mall, patient research centre and a clinical research division with medical services available round-the-clock.
Himanshu Modi, a doctor, said the hospital would prove a 'boon' to many patients in the western suburbs who were compelled to seek advanced, high-quality medicare either at Lilavati or AHI, or go all the way to south Mumbai to hospitals like Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy Hospital, Hinduja Hospital or Saifee Hospital.
'The KDAH will not only help save time for patients travelling from far flung places in the suburbs, but also enable quicker treatment without a waiting list as is prevalent in some of the other big hospitals,' Modi explained.
The KDAH is the first major hospital to come up in the western suburbs. Apart from the private Nanavati Hospital in Vile Parle and several hospitals run by the civic body in the city, the other two notable facilities in the city are located in Bandra - the Asian Heart Institute for cardiac care and the Lilavati Hospital for general care.
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"hospitals in most parts of the world, especially in the US, have become so greedy that the doctors prescribe so many unwanted tests and prescribe irrelevant medicines and also prolonged hospitalization". The truth is that the hospitals are generally owned by moneyed people like traders, merchants and agriculturists with a lot of unaccounted or tax-free money which they invest in other fields, like Hospitals with buildings and equipment. These people being just literate or half-educated,dictate the doctors to maximise revenues in these ways. Some of them even employ fake doctors who are more pliable in these respects.What is forgotten is that hospitals, like catering, cannot be a totally profit oriented business, but must have a large commitment to service with humane approach even to poor patients. The US.govt.has made it a law that patients cannot be refused treatment by hospitals on monetary considerations.Mr Ambani can follow this law, though nonexistent in India, voluntarily.
World class for hospitals will be good as an advertising point. However, it is true that hospitals in most parts of the world, especially in the US, have become so greedy that the doctors prescribe so many unwanted tests and prescribe irrelevant medicines and also prolonged hospitalization especially when hospital occupancy is low. This is due to commercial greed. Hence Mr Ambani should ensure that this, and other malpractices of hospitals, are scrupulously avoided, and only the relevant tests on patients are done based on preliminary examination for proper diagnosis and treatment. High quality doctors will be required for achieving this goal. The commitment should be to provide low cast services so that his hospital does not become unaffordable for the poor and those who are not covered by medical insurance.
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