The Mission Hospital, Durgapur, which started operations six years back is now set to add a dedicated cancer care unit adjacent to its existing facility.
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Dr Satyajit Bose |
Speaking to Express Healthcare, Dr Satyajit Bose, Chairman, The Mission Hospital said, “Initially, when we set up this 350-bedded multi-speciality hospital in a tier-III city like Durgapur, a lot of people were sceptical about the viability of the project. They were in doubts about the success of a such a project in a place, which is far off from the capital city where most of the other corporate multi-speciality hospitals were located. Proving them wrong was a challenging task. But, our team of untiring consultants, physicians, para-medical staff, support staff have helped us to establish The Mission Hospital as a leading healthcare institution in this part of the country.”
Buoyed by the success of the hospital and the financial model, the hospital now plans to scale up their operations. “We are setting up a dedicated cancer treatment hospital, which will be housed in an adjacent building within the existing campus equipped with state-of-the-art Linear Accelerators, PET CT and manned by renowned onco-surgeons, radiation-oncologists, who will be coming to the hospital from different parts of the globe,” Dr Bose said.
The cost for the project has been pegged at Rs 60 crores and will be set up in two phases. In the first phase, 100 beds will be set up, which will be scaled up to 200 at a later stage. The funds for the project will be sourced from internal accruals and lending from FIs and banks, he added. The construction of the project has already started and it should be operational by the first quarter of 2015.
Dr Bose said, “The hospital is the first multi-speciality in Eastern India outside Kolkata to be awarded the NABH accreditation.” He 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.
He also informed that the hospital has been the first to introduce the ‘close ended’ packages, wherein the patients would not spend beyond the decided amount. It has also introduced innovative strategies like ‘treat now and pay later’, wherein patients can treat now and make some part payment and pay off the remaining in equal monthly installments, of even less than Rs 1000 per month. Till now, they have facilitated more than 1000 procedures in this scheme and reportedly there have been no defaulters.
Dr Bose informed, “Besides, the cancer care hospital, we have acquired two acre of land in the upcoming airport city of Andal (Sujalam, The Sky City), near Durgapur wherein the country’s first ‘only transplant’ hospital would be built with an investment of Rs 200 crores, primarily performing heart, kidney, liver, pancreas and bone marrow transplants. It also plans to procure two air ambulances for organ harvesting and patient transfer, based on its proximity to the airport.
Keeping in view the quality improvement plan, the hospital aims to acquire the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibrating Laboratories (NABL) and JCI Accreditation soon.
EH News Bureau
