Which corporate hospital in Hyderabad has the best Facebook Cover image? “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Most of you thought it is Apollo Health City's Facebook cover image but it's not. Surprised? Read on. Though Apollo Health City Facebook page has 65k followers, using a generic campaign creative on its cardiac treatment expertise looks vague. My feeling is that either a patient or a star heart transplant surgeon should have been at the heart of the cover image. In case of the latter, my bet is on Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Cardio Thoracic Surgeon, who could have been featured instead but the management may be wary of a doctor becoming bigger than the hospital. This creative goes well with the violet color of Care Hospitals but the designer should have run a spell-check on November! By the way, lung cancer being the most common cancer in Indian men could be factually incorrect. It s...
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Winning Strategies For Rare Disease Survivors
Fifteen-year-old Sai Teja from Hyderabad was surrounded by a battery of journalists at Hyderabad Press Club, Somajiguda and for a moment, he would pass off as some celebrity. Alas! He wasn't. Rare disease survivor Sai Teja His attendant/relative Sukya Naik was taking questions on behalf Sai Teja - a survivor of a rare disease called muscular dystrophy - on the sidelines of an event to mark the World Rare Diseases Day-2019 organised by 'Indian Organisation for Rare Diseases ( IORD )', a not-for-profit organisation based out of US and India. Questions flooded and it turned out that Sukya Naik had spent several lakhs for Sai Teja's treatment and faced several discriminations too along the way. I added one: What type of muscular dystrophy is he suffering from? "I don't know but it is there in his medical papers," he replied. I was curious and followed him to the cafeteria to find out if he could tell me exactly more about Sai T...
Leonia Resort's CMD Arrested Over GST Evasion
It may be late but the law will catch up with GST violators in Hyderabad. In a major development, Leonia resorts CMD GS Chakravati has been arrested by Director General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Hyderabad, for evasion of GST to the tune of Rs. 13.81 crores. Sources said the resort has been collecting GST from their customers/guests and retaining the same with them, besides diverting the tax amounts so collected for private purposes, instead of paying it to the government since July 2017. The GST law stipulates that all the amounts representing GST collected from service recipients have to be mandatorily credited into the government credit and that periodical returns are filed by a specific date, every month. However, the resort and its management chose to not to pay the tax to the government and not filed any statutorily prescribed returns, with a deliberate intention to evade GST. The management of the resort has a dubious history of not paying applicable servi...
Why your home should be the next hospital
The Next Big Thing: Home Care Services It’s a paradox facing corporate hospitals in India: How to get patients & how to free hospital beds after their surgical procedure? Enters home care services - welcome to the future of healthcare. It’s an emerging market in India that is likely to grow by 39.23% in 2020 - from $4.46 billion in 2018 to $6.21 billion in 2020 - as per a report by Cyber Media Research (CMR) Ltd. Down the years, it won't be a surprise if you witness a major overhaul in the corporate hospital set-up with the clear protocol from ICU to 'homeward' shift instead of the usual general wards. The insurance players too might come down, agreeing to extend cover for home care services. For a nation with only 9.6 lakh registered doctors (as on 2015) for 1.2 billion people, no hospital can afford to put up a ‘hospital-beds full’ board like what theatres do on weekends at multiplexes. The only way out is to provide hospital-like care at ho...
Six-year-old boy is first to undergo HiRes Ultra Cochlear Implant in India
Hyderabad: In what is touted as a first in the field of ENT in India, doctors at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, has successfully performed a HiRes Ultra Cochlear Implant on a six-year-old boy. Dveloped by Advanced Bionics – the s a global leader in developing the most advanced cochlear implant systems in the world- t he first successful HiRes Ultra implant in the country was performed at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad on a 6-year-old boy named N Yeshwanth. The device was successfully switched on by the doctors at Apollo Hospitals, giving Yeshwanth a whole new sensory experience, one which he was deprived of, since birth. Born to Narisingrao, a BPO employee and Nithya, a housewife, N Yeshwanth was diagnosed to be profoundly deaf at birth. Yeshwanth’s parents noticed that their child had hearing problems when he was around 6-month-old as he didn’t respond to the sound of their voice or react to audio stimulus. They then spent almost five years consulti...
When Alemam from Yemen visits Maxcure Secretariat
H yderabad seems to be on a fast-track to get the coveted medical tourism destination tag for visiting foreign patients in India. It is now not uncommon to see news reports of corporate hospitals featuring medical success stories of these international patients. Maxcure Secretariat, formerly Mediciti Hospitals, has now joined the medical tourism bandwagon with a dedicated online service being made to international patients for facilitation. You can access the webpage here at their website . In a recent case, Maxcure Secretariat doctors treated a patient from Middle East. The patient had come all the way with catheter attached (to divert his urine flow post an accident), in search of a hospital for urinary reconstruction. , upon suggestion from friends and is now back to normal is heading back to his country. Skilled and qualified doctors at MaxCure have been treating international as well as local patients with World class facilities and infrastructure at affordable prices....
For a doctor, nothing happens before 40. Their life begins at 60.
Interview: Dr Amitava Ray Outside my medical acquaintance, the fresh face I encountered at ‘Not Just Meds – Let’s talk beyond Medicine’ conference on Sunday was Dr Amitava Ray, senior consultant Neurosurgeon and Clinical Lead, Neurosciences, Apollo Research and Innovations. With a decade long association with Apollo Hospitals, Not Just Meds – Let’s talk beyond Medicine turned out to be Dr Amitava Ray’s brainchild, with whom I had an interesting tete-a-tete on a host of issues surrounding the lives of modern day medical practitioners. Excerpts from our conversation: On pressures There is always enormous pressure on a doctor – right from competing with six lakh medicos for 2000 NEET PG seats to pressure on getting married. The struggle goes on as even after they successfully cross one stage, they find themselves at the bottom of the pile when they step in to another stage of their professional life. On Suicides Of the 2500 doctors supposed...
Not Just Meds – Let’s talk beyond Medicine
When I started writing my health blog last year, I made a promise to myself that I would contribute at least one story every day but things did not turn up that way. Of course, some promises are meant to be broken and there were several reasons for my failure in keeping the promise I made to myself. One reason that I could single out was that there were not many medical events happening in the city that excited me enough to mark my presence that I could easily manage, thanks to my old medical network & acquaintances in the medical profession. Not Just Meds – Let’s talk beyond Medicine The desire to contribute something for my health blog rekindled on Saturday when I noticed an invite from Apollo Hospitals about ‘Not Just Meds – Let’s talk beyond Medicine’, touted as a one of its kind conference to address issues doctors confront every day. Though I was skeptical at first, there was an element of excitement and curiosity for me as such a medical event that brought toge...