Hyderabad-based Global Hospitals today announced the opening of their information and telemedicine centre here, which would help patients in the city get advice regarding aliments from specialists sitting in the Andhra Pradesh capital and Chennai.
“We have a large population of patients who have undergone treatment at our hospitals. They have been asking us if our doctors could come here and help in followup treatments and advice them further,” K Ravindranath, Chairman and MD, Global Hospitals, told mediapersons here.
The telemedicine centre will help them to reach out to the specialists in Hyderabad and Chennai without taking trouble of travelling to the hospital, he said. “The patients and their local doctors would be able to interact with super specialist doctors via video conferencing, who would suggest medicines and treatment,” Ravindranath said.
The telemedicine centre in the city is the fourth after Kolkata, Puducherry and Bhubaneshwar. The hospital group was contemplating setting up a super speciality hospital in Ahmedabad soon, Ravindranath said.
About expansion plans of the Global Hospitals, he said they plan to open over 30 more information centres in the next five years. Ravindranath said they presently have nine hospitals in Hyderabad, Bangaluru and Chennai having a total capacity of 2,000 beds.
The Deccan Herald