Hyderabad-based Srikon Healthcare Services Limited, a home-based medical service provider for family members, launched its healthcare service – based on the concept of a family physician - in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
Srikon Healthcare has in-house doctors, who will be individually assigned for specific patients. Families can avail the service with an annual subscription package of Rs 8,000-Rs 10,000.
“A family physician is the one who knows an individual’s health history, and reduces confusion during acute medical emergencies. Healing is not just about treatment but also human attachments, which is why family doctors were preferred a few decades ago. Today, doctors do not have adequate time for each patient. So, the family physician concept is again gaining steam,” Srikon’s chairman Subrahmanyam Nanduri told mediapersons here.
According to a recent study done by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, around 50 per cent of the employees in India are under stress, 20 per cent suffer from depression and 30 per cent have problems such as addictions and marital discord. India is expected to have the largest cardiovascular disease burden in the world by 2020 between the age group of 30 and 69 years, reflecting its loss in terms of losing potentially productive years.
“Lifestyle diseases, including obesity, hypertension, diabetes and heart attacks, are growing and even affecting youngsters at an early age. In this case, a family doctor will play an important role,” he said.
