| The latest addition to the growing list of hi-tech corporate hospitals in the twin cities is Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS).
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| It is setting up a Rs 150-crore upmarket multi specialty hospital on the five-acre Deccan Continental Hotel site, acquired for the purpose, on the Ministers Road in Secunderabad.
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| The first phase of the project with a 150-bed capacity costing Rs 60 crore (including the property purchase cost of Rs 20 crore ) is fast nearing completion and is likely be launched very soon.
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| An eminent cardiothorasic surgeon B Bhaskar Rao, the chief executive of KIMS, who has promoted the successful Bollineni Group of Hospitals in major Andhra Pradesh towns like Nellore, Rajahmundry, Cuddapah, as well as Mahavir Cardiovascular Centre in Hyderabad, has roped in seven other specialists in various medical fields as well as the Rs 500-crore B Seenaiah & Company to promote the venture.
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| Speaking to Business Standard, Bhaskar Rao said that the vision of the group was to provide best medicare, with unique personalised attention at around 25 per cent less than the costs charged by other corporate hospitals in the city.
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| KIMS bought out the Deccan Continental estate last year at a cost of Rs 20 crore.
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| Since January when the first phase project was launched, over Rs 5 crore had been spent on renovation and adaptation of the hotel environment to world's best maintained hospital environments, the KIMS chief executive said.
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| He said KIMS would initially have around 30 specialties, each headed by an expert specialist. Around 60 consultant specialists would work solely for KIMS and would not practise anywhere else.
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| This is not the case with other major hospitals, he pointed out. With the rapid pace of other disciplines being put in place, the KIMS group would finally emerge a hydrocele-to-heart transplants centre in a short span of time, he hoped.
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| According to Bhaskar Rao, KIMS has acquired most modern medical equipments under all the specialties with an investment of Rs 35 crore inclusive of miscellaneous expenditure.
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| Some of them include digital cardiac and radiology cathlab, 1.5T MRI, multislice CT, color doppler, digital radiography, full-fledged bloodbank, well-equipped ambulance system etc.
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| The advanced neonatal transport system -- a Hill Rom Airshields Globe Trotter Transport Incubator -- which the hospital has is the first of its kind in the country.
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| On the patient care service being developed as unique to the hospital, the KIMS CEO explained that they had adopted the concept of photo ID cards and bar-coding for the patients.
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| The professional service department will deploy patient care executives and staff to attend upon both in- and out-patients at every stage till their exit.
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| The service is being personalised with a social support system as well, he said. Also in the offing in the patient services segment are family and master health cards again to be developed as unique to KIMS.
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| As and when they are launched, they would be rated the best, he claimed. The hospital would be “a paperless hospital” with the entire process being digitised. Patients would have an option of having their entire data provided on a CD, he explained.
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| KIMS is at present in talks with reputed hospitals and medical institutions in UK and US to explore knowledge sharing and an outcome is soon likely, Bhaskar Rao said and added that the institute would venture into medical education in the future.
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| B Krishnaiah, the chairman and managing director of KIMS and also the chairman of around Rs 500-crore B Seenaiah & Company (Projects) Limited, the major promoter behind the venture, said the hospital would improve upon the best existing medical practices in the country both in terms of quality and affordability.
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| With medical tourism gaining prominence in the country, and the city emerging top on the list, a major promotional campaign was being chalked out to place KIMS on the global map of health tourism. In this, his company with a good number of projects abroad would render its expertise, he said.
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| Stating that the first phase of the venture was nearly complete, Krishnaiah informed that the second phase would commence soon. Planned with an outlay of Rs 90 crore, the project would have a 350-bed capacity and would be ready in the year 2005, he added. |
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