Ivy Hospital, Mohali celebrates 12th anniversary
KI Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
“ As we talk about the growth and development in the healthcare industry in india, home healthcare is one area, our country is gradually inching towards. With the upcoming technology and training’s given to healthcare professionals such as nurses and other specialists, we would be able to extend high quality, affordable home healthcare, which is a new concept in this region.”
This was stated by Gurtej Singh, Chairman of Ivy Group of Hospitals while speaking during 12th anniversary of Ivy Hospital, Mohali hospital on Tuesday.
We have planned to start home care for our patients soon, he informed. We are building a team of specialists who will extend high quality affordable home healthcare after the patient has been discharged from the hospital, said Singh.
He said further that home healthcare is not available in most parts of the region but it is needed by many patients. It will greatly reduce the cost of further hospitalization as the patients can be put under proper supervision at their own homes, he opined. Trained nurses under care of expert doctors shall be deputed by Ivy to ensure that patients recover properly after a critical surgery or long hospitalization due to critical illness, he asserted.
This service will also help to offer a panoramic view to patients like catheterization, dressing, physiotherapy, feeding tube, colostomy care, bed sore care, pain management and nursing support for the patients, he pointed out.
Th service will in fact be a boon for the patients, who are suffering from various deadly diseases like cancer, cardiac, neurological, ,kidney failure, Alzheimer, Parkinson etc.
Dr. Kanwaldeep, Medical Director, Ivy Group of Hospitals said that we treat almost 2-lakh patients every year across our 7 multi super specialty hospitals at Mohali, Khanna, Bathinda, Nawanshahr, Hoshiarpur, Amritsar and Panchkula. We have 24 super specialty departments managed by highly qualified and experienced doctors. We are empaneled with more than 100 organizations, insurance companies, TPAs and government departments, said adding our motto is to take super specialty healthcare to tier 3 towns of North India and to make it affordable for all.
