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Tie-up
Astron Ties up with JCI
It will facilitate the availability of JCI publications
locally and by paying local currency
Delhi-based ASTRON Hospital & Healthcare has tied up with Joint Commission
International (JCI) to be the latter's resource organisation for all publications,
manuals, materials etc. All these resources would be made available at ASTRON
on consignment basis and clients from Indian subcontinent would be able to source
it from ASTRON.
Said Dr YP Bhatia, Managing Director, ASTRON Hospital & Healthcare, "The
access to publications and books on quality in healthcare and healthcare management
is limited in India because of lack of local titles and reluctance to access
these from abroad. We are trying to facilitate the availability of these books
locally and by paying local currency. We are shortly signing a separate MoU
to create a Joint Commission Journal on quality and patient safety available
for the Indian subcontinent through ASTRON."
"Regarding commercials, we would be getting these publications at a special
price, the benefit of which, we can pass to our beneficiaries too. The main
objective is not to make money, but to make Indian healthcare professionals
get easy access to books and journals on healthcare quality and management and
create an enabling environment of knowledge base to make healthcare quality
a habit," he added.
Meanwhile, ASTRON has been signed up as consortium with Mathur & Kapre Associates
for AIIMS-like apex institute project at Jodhpur for functional and medical
planning. "We have also signed for a diabetes hospital at Pitampura, Delhi
in addition to Manav Rachna Hospital in Faridabad by Manav Rachna Group, right
from concept to commissioning of the hospitals. Our public health division has
recently signed up with Clinton Foundation for undertaking baseline studies
on prevention of parent to child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Rajasthan, MP,
Karnataka and Maharashtra," added Dr Bhatia.
Additionally, the Quality and Accreditation division of ASTRON has been entrusted
by QCI to provide consultancy to prestigious Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi
under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India. This is
in addition to six Gujarat Government Hospitals which ASTRON is already working
on. It also tied up with the Sterling Group for preparing their hospitals in
Baroda and Ahmedabad for NABH accreditation.
Rita Dutta
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