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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India, Columbia Asia comes again for the 12th time!
It seems India is turning out to be a dream destination for multi-national chain of corporate hospitals. The latest to expand its footprint is Columbia Asia by opening its fifth facility at Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru. Spread over 2,60,000 sqft of built up area, this will be Columbia Asia’s biggest hospital in the country with 206 beds housed in eleven floors. The global hospital chain based out of Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia) is known to have 29 medical facilities across Asia; 12 in Malaysia, 12 in India, 3 in Vietnam and 3 in Indonesia. This tertiary care hospital in the garden city will have a team of highly qualified medical personnel and nursing staff practicing International protocols and providing the best possible care to the community. “It gives us great pleasure to launch this world-class facility in Bangalore. With the growth of specialty healthcare and focus on pr...
T Superspeciality hospitals withdraw cashless ESI services
Hyderabad: What has been simmering for years together has now erupted as a volcano with Telangana Specialty Hospitals Association (TSHA) announcing withdrawal of all cashless healthcare services to Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) beneficiaries from November 1, 2017. The drastic decision has been attributed by TSHA to ESI’s inordinate delay in reimbursement to hospitals with dues of several patients dating back to the year 2012 remaining unpaid, the TSHA said in a statement on Saturday. In their statement, over TSHA hospitals empanelled with ESI in Telangana have requested ESI beneficiaries to make a note of the same and get ready to pay in cash. For the record, 44.70 lakh ESI beneficiaries availed cashless insurance facility from these empanelled hospitals in Telangana in 2015 alone. (Check the state wise list of ESI beneficiaries) The agitated private empanelled ESI hospitals claimed that their attempts to resolve their issues with the central gove...