Hyderabad-based Yashoda Hospital plans to set up a 330-bed multi-speciality hospital in the city at an investment of Rs 180 crore. The proposed hospital would come up on an area of five acres in the city and it is expected to be operational within two years.
Addressing mediapersons here, Dheeraj Gorukanti, director, Yashoda Hospital, said, "We are scouting for land to set up a multi-speciality hospital in Bhubaneswar. Apart from the multi-speciality hospital, we are also exploring the possibility of setting up a cancer institute in Bhubaneswar similar to the one existing in Hyderabad."
Besides Bhubaneswar, Yashoda Hospital is also aiming to set up its hospitals in Chennai and Kolkata but the details are yet to be worked out. At present, Yashoda runs three multi-speciality hospitals and a standalone cancer institute in Hyderabad.
With a bed strength of about 1250, Yashoda is run by 600 doctors in 62 specialities and 1,500 nurses. The hospital offers treatment to over 5,00,000 patients every year out of which 5,000 patients are from Orissa.
Yashoda Hospital formally launched its 150-bed integrated cancer institute in Hyderabad on February 4 this year at a cost of about Rs 150 crore. The cancer institute has so far treated around 50 cancer patients through the Rapid Arc Radiation Therapy, which the Yashoda Hospital claims to have introduced for the first time in Asia at an investment of Rs 20 crore.
PP Mohanty, senior radiation oncologist, Yashoda Cancer Institute, said, "The Rapid Arc radiation therapy, the latest in cancer radiation therapy comes as blessing to both doctors and patients. This therapy is eight times faster than any other radiation therapy as a single revolution of the arc can treat a volume of cancerous tissue within two to three minutes."
The benefits of the Rapid Arc radiation therapy include better target coverage of cancerous tissues, superior protection of critical structures like spinal cord, brain stem and eyes as well as less scattered dose to the surrounding structures.
The Rapid Arc radiation therapy is applicable to all forms of cancer including oral cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer and brain tumours. Yashoda Hospital is also operating a large mobile cancer screening unit for free screening and early detection of different forms of cancer in rural and semi-urban areas. The mobile screening unit would undertake its campaign in Orissa in May this year.
The mobile screening unit is equipped with digital mammography, digital X-Ray machine with computed radiography room, ultrasound scan as well as smear and semi auto analyser.
