[This article was published in the May 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The healthcare industry in India has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few decades and is now worth an estimated INR 2 lakh crores.
India has the potential to significantly improve healthcare in the next 25 to 30 years provided it steps up capacity for generating and translating scientific and technological advancements into medical innovations.
[This article was published in the April 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
A post-show report of the first International Conference on transforming healthcare with information technology organised by the Apollo Group during March 8-10, 2010 in New Delhi.
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiotherapy at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital has been offering specialized care to its patrons for almost 15 years now. With the up-gradation in the department the hospital continues to show its commitment towards the science of rehabilitation.
The SGRH Liver Program performs 150 transplants annually with a success rate of 95%, which makes it the second largest and among the most successful in the world.
Dr. Gurunath Reddy, graduate of Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad India is elected as President of the Harris County Medical Society, the largest county medical society in the United States of America, representing eleven thousand doctors.
HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd. (HCG), South Asia
Apollo group of hospital has announced the launch of its 49th hospital at Bhubaneshwar. The 350 bed tertiary care facility with state-of-the-art technology would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
The focus of the Union Budget 2010-11 is on rural healthcare with the allocations rising to a whopping INR 22,300 crores from INR 19,534 crores during the previous fiscal year. This escalation is in keeping with the evolving needs of the growing healthcare industry of the country.
Fortis Healthcare announced its plan to focus on its academics and research programme with the objective of fostering and facilitating academics and clinical research enterprise across Fortis network of hospitals.
Narayana Hrudayalaya, the Bangalore-based heart care hospital, will increase its bed capacity to 30,000 in five years across all its hospitals across India.
Diabetes Research Centre, Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) and Medical Council of India organized a Multinational Study Group Meeting on
Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals group said it intends to open a 2,000-bed multi-speciality hospital in the Cayman Islands in two years’ time as part of its expansion plans.
