Hyderabad: While the whole country celebrates World Health Day aiming to eliminate health inequalities on Wednesday, Hyderabad and the Telangana districts find themselves in a unique position that they have seen a massive growth in medical infrastructure that makes healthcare accessible to patients, both private and public health care sector.
Within a few years after the establishment of the state, Hyderabad quickly emerged as the capital of health care in the country and provided an alternative choice for medical tourism, which is usually a measure of the quality of health services, compared to metro Cities like New Delhi and Mumbai. .
The estimates indicate that the expected revenue from medical tourism in 2009-10 was about 3 million in Hyderabad, which now moves between 15 million and 18 million annually. While the last year has been dominated by the Covid pandemic, remains the fact that the best private healthcare institutions in Hyderabad attract many patients from neighboring states like Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Karnataka, except patients from Africa and Southeast Asia.
To further strengthen their position, the corporate hospitals and laboratories in Hyderabad continued to upgrade their facilities to obtain certification from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) and the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration of Laboratories (NABL). Eventually, the NABL certification came in handy to private laboratories in Hyderabad, as the certification became mandatory to be eligible to perform RT-PCR tests for Covid-19 diagnosis.
Apart from Hyderabad, other major urban centers, such as Warangal, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Rangareddy, have also experienced large investments in public and private health care services over the years. While the state government focused on setting up teaching hospitals in the districts, the private health care institutions continued to add satellite branches in districts, which eventually became reference centers for their tertiary care facilities in Hyderabad.
While private healthcare resources have invested resources to improve medical infrastructure, the Telangana government, for its part, has also spent nearly $ 700 million to purchase new diagnostic medical equipment, develop non-clinical infrastructure at state hospitals, and its direct phase-in initiative to maintain cash. benefit scheme for pregnant women by KCR sets.
On the other hand, supported by venture capital financing, private health care institutions have invested heavily in new and emerging areas of Hyderabad, especially in the suburbs like Gachibowli, Nanakramguda, Madhapur, Kondapur, etc. The booming ITES sector in these parts of Hyderabad and the increasing influx of families from other parts of the country have fueled demand and forced industrial hospitals to expand and set up new facilities. According to estimates, business hospitals are expected to invest more than R5 million in the next few years to develop their clinical and diagnostic facilities in the famous IT band of Hyderabad.
Apart from private clinical services, the government’s efforts to validate the manufacture of medical devices by establishing the country’s largest medical equipment park in Sultanpur, the place of Hyderabad as the best urban center providing the overall ecosystem for the health industry.
Medtronic, which is investing nearly R200 million to invest its research and development in Hyderabad, Sahajanand Medical Technologies (SMT), the largest stent manufacturer in Asia, and a number of healthcare companies have already started investing. in the medical equipment park. The Covid pandemic has also made Hyderabad a hub for vaccine manufacturing, with pharmaceutical companies capable of producing more than 2 billion doses of vaccines annually.
Source: Telangana Today