Noble Hospitals to offer telemedicine

Noble Hospitals Pvt Ltd, promoted by a group of Pune-based doctors and the real estate player Magarpatta Township Development Company Pvt Ltd, will open its doors in the next week to offer special critical care to accident victims and also look at providing telemedicine facilities to the practitioners in the surrounding areas.

Dilip Mane, managing director of Noble Hospitals told media persons that the hospital has 250 beds including 64 beds in the Intensive Care Units and operation theatres and pathology laboratories with ultra modern equipment.

He said the hospital has been set up with an investment of Rs 32 crore which includes equity and debt in the nature of bank loans.

Built over an area of 1.80 lakh sq ft, the hospital will have 32 departments looked after by 70 consultants and experts, he said.

Mane said the location of the hospital is such that accident victims on the three highways passing by Pune will get quick attention and treatment as there will be three fully ready ambulance vans to reach the accident spot within a very short time of the intimation of accident.

"We will not wait for the victims to be brought to the hospital but reach where they are," Mane said.

According to him the hospital staff and experts will also be available for medicational practitioners from the nearby villages and even towns in the surrounding districts to advise on the Internet. This will save the patient all the bother to travel to Pune for expert opinion, he added.

Mane said the hospital has provided special and deluxe rooms and luxury suites for the patients visiting from abroad and their accompanying relatives.

He said the modern facilities instituted in the hospital will make it a hot spot on the medical tourism scene in India.

Noble Hospitals will also look at the increasing opportunities of organ transplant surgeries and joint replacement treatment, Mane informed. The fees for treatment have been finalised keeping in mind the paying capacity of all sections of patients though there will be free treatment to patients from below the poverty line category.

"The hospital will achieve operating break even in one year's time," he said.