The Mission Hospital, Durgapur has recently received NABH accreditation. Dr Satyajit Bose, Chairman, The Mission Hospital said, “The hospital is the first multi-speciality in Eastern India outside Kolkata to be awarded the prestigious NABH accreditation.”
Dr Bose added that the accreditation was given only after the hospital met 102 stringent standards and 636 objective elements that cover all aspects from infrastructure, facilities, services to skills of all the staff.
The patients are the greatest beneficiary of NABH accreditation as it ensures a high quality of care and patient safety at the hospital. It implies that the patients are looked after by credential medical staff and their rights such as respect for personal dignity, confidentiality, refusal to treatment, record accessibility are respected and protected.
He said, “The NABH certificate is an added feather in the hospitals’ endeavor to provide quality healthcare. This accreditation has reaffirmed the quest for quality of services and would help the hospital in performing up to its full potential and achieving benchmarks which it has set for itself.”
The 250-bedded Mission Hospital, Durgapur has been the first to introduce the ‘Close Ended’ packages, wherein the patients would not spend beyond the decided amount. Also the ‘Healthy Heart for All’ initiative offers ‘treat now and pay later’ facility for the patients based on equated monthly installments.
The city of Durgapur was chosen to set up the medical institute keeping in mind the excellent infrastructural facilities like rail and road and the upcoming air connection, excellent economies of scale, fantastic educational system and an equally knowledgeable and intelligent and health conscious population.
Commenting on the expansion plans of the Group, Dr Bose said, The Mission Hospital has started work on its second phase for adding additional 150 beds, three operation theatres and a second cath-lab by September 2013.
A dedicated cancer treatment hospital will be housed in a separate building within the same campus, with state-of-the-art Linear Accelerator, PET CT, in association with Royal Marsden Hospital, London to be completed by the year 2015.
The hospital has also acquired two acres of land in the upcoming airport city of Andal (Sujalam, The Sky City), wherein India’s first ‘Only Transplant’ Hospital would be built with an investment of Rs. 200 crore primarily performing heart, kidney, liver, pancreas and bone marrow transplants. The brand also has plans of procuring at the outset, two air ambulances for organ harvesting and patient transfer, based on its proximity to the airport.
Keeping in view the Quality Improvement Plan, The Mission Hospital aims at acquiring the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibrating Laboratories (NABL) by the year 2014 which covers all the scope of services under Department of Laboratory Services.
EH News Bureau – Kolkata
