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New Projects
Bangaluru to Get a Tertiary Care Hospital
It is the brain child of three doctors
Artistic impression of Yashoda Hospital |
Bangaluru, which has healthcare giants like Manipal, Apollo,
Narayana Hrudayalaya, MS Ramiah, Wockhardt (earlier Fortis), Columbia Asia,
HCG, and many more, is ready to welcome one more hospital. Yashoda Medicare
and Research Centre, located in Marathalli, is scheduled to be commissioned
in September, this year.
This is not from Hyderabad-based Yashoda Group. Yashoda Medicare
and Research Centre is the brain child of three doctors— Dr Amit Kumar
Kesari, Dr Abhishek Kumar Keshri and Dr S Ravi. While Dr Amit is an intensivist,
Dr Ravi specialises in internal medicine and Dr Abhishek is a pediatrician
This is a 240-bed modern multi-speciality hospital, spread over 1,50,000 square
feet, with high-end diagnostic and treatment facilities. The cost of setting
up the project is Rs 110 crore; the nature of funding is from promoter directors
and public sector banks.
The various facilities offered would be in anesthesiology, cardiac sciences,
dentistry, ENT, general surgery, endocrinology, gastro-enterology, neurology,
nephrology, urology, oncology, paediatrics, dermatology, pulmonology and psychiatry.
"Highly specialised, superior-technology care and treatment would be given
to patients here," says Dr Amit Kumar Kesari, Managing Director, Yashoda
Medicare. One fifty beds 150 would be commissioned in the first phase.
Equipped with nine specialised OTs with laminar flows ensuring zero infection,
the hospital has advanced MRI and 64 slice Cardiac CT scan for non-invasive
diagnostic procedure to detect coronary artery blocks. It brings cutting-edge
technology to compliment the skills of consultants and surgeons to perform minimally
invasive procedures.
"Regular health-check programmes as part of preventive
medicine would be given importance at Yashoda Medicare. Flexible health-check
packages are specially designed to have an early diagnosis of lifestyle diseases
for varied sections of people from different age groups," says he. Among
the various equipments for diagnostic and treatment installed at 30-odd departments
within the hospital, the flat panel digital cathlab from GE with IVUS software
and other high-end imaging equipments have put the department of cardiology
and diagnostics at Yashoda Medicare to world standards, he added.
Yashoda Medicare is coming up with a 200-bed multi-speciality
hospital in Ranchi. "The hospital in Ranchi would be started six months
after the inauguration of our Bangaluru unit," said Dr Amit.
Rita Dutta
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