Covid-19 has been a challenging time for hospitals and the topmost doctors and administrations had to come down to the field level of managing the disease, people and also resources. Post-Covid the impact assessment has shown that collaborative team effort helps. Let’s hear what Dr Rahul Medakkar, Chief Operating Officer, CARE Hospitals, Banjara Hills shares on IndiGlobal Media Network, H-Factor, on the timely efforts taken during the pandemic and strategies chalked out for future.
The hospital started in 2000 with a group of highly recommended professionals. The genesis or the foundations of the CARE Hospitals is essentially the Science professionals came together and started the hospital. This genesis continues to be the spirit of clinical practice and care. Though we are a private sector hospital we take pride to say that we are accessible to below the poverty line. As well as to the higher sections of the society.
CARE Hospitals are known to do one of the best cardiac surgeries, not only in adults but also in neonates. Can you elaborate on what are the different cases you have tackled?
Since the founder’s members are from Cardiac Sciences, it continues to be the focus area. This is the hospital that has done a fetal intervention of the cardiac operation of newborns that means when the babies are at the womb that time surgery was done thereby detecting in advance the Cardiac disease. This specialization has brought many challenging surgeries and we have been able to detect and treat early to bring a healthy baby in this world.
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There are many other specialties at the power of excellence. If you see the length & breadth of the services which we are offering in the hospital there are neurosciences such as stroke management, neurosurgery and a special focus is on disease management of Parkinson’s. Epilepsy in adults and pediatrics are also the core areas where we have a good treatment regime. Those are essentially not procedure driven but largely a population is suffering from these kinds of problems and our neurosciences department is actively involved in managing these. We have an exclusive cochlear implant and a hearing correction ENT Department which works very actively.
We have tie-ups with certain government agencies and non-government organizations who support them with the implants and our surgeons too almost do the surgery free of cost. So lots of social causes other than the private sector business what we do.
Department of Women and Child, I think we are sort of regenerating now which is headed by Padmashri Dr. Manjula Anagani. The sports injury and rehabilitation centers are the things which are in our cart to start very soon. We have all the specialties which require disease pattern treatment in the community.
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We were not so prepared in terms of protocols, in terms of willingness to convince the patients for treatment in the First Wave of Covid-19. It was more of a pause to the other specialty other than the emergency. In the Second Wave we were doing almost every possible thing other then very high risk kind of interventions which could be at times the kind of high risk
In terms of preparedness, we could immediately create pathways of segregation, aseptic protocols, workforce demarcation and avoiding non-Covid 19 workforce in the Covid area. As far as shortage of healthcare workers is concerned, fortunately, We at CARE Hospitals Hyderabad have two different premises and we can always choose to do so services in both premises by converting one for Covid 19 and other for non-Covid 19. In that way the patient cycle was managed and the risk minimized.
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I think in a prevention space or in a health condition monitoring space, this is one space where technology plays an important role. There is the technology driving your regular health checkups and the volunteering pattern and then probably do productive analysis on what is likely to be your health outcomes or that are likely to be the risk factors for ones health.
I think that the process of innovation will play a vital role over the years and that’s something which is important. Lots of startups are doing lots of work over there and they are partnering with the players like us to get the clinical and technical expertise to understand the core medicine. These are tagging along with each other for better technology driven intervention to prevent and monitor the health status of the population. There is a significant amount of technology interventions which might be likely to have in population management which is good news to have.
How do you look at Hyderabad as a healthcare hub? How will it be in the future?
If you see the last 3-4 years of Hyderabad, the healthcare delivery spectrum has improved substantially. The collaboration between the public and private hospitals substantially improved. That gives another leverage in terms of clinical programs in the private sectors. If you see 5 years back probably one hospital doing the transplant but today almost 10 hospitals are doing all sorts of transplants. In that way Hyderabad is not becoming a hub, it is almost reaching a hub. More and more medical colleges are being added to Telangana. So those are the benefits of improvising healthcare facilities. Over the next few years, Hyderabad will have a better healthcare system.
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