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Bench Strength:
Ever since its inception, the
Superspeciality Centre has been in the lead in the field of
pre-insurance medical check-up. Almost all the Insurance
Majors have empanelled the Centre for their pre-insurance
check-up. There are tie-ups with ICICI Prudential Insurance
Company, Max New York Life, TATA AIG, ING Vysya, Met Life
Insurance Company, Birla Sunlife, SBI Life Insurance,
Cholamandalam Insurance Company, TTK Healthcare and the
country's biggest insurance conglomerate Life Insurance
Corporation of India.
The Centre also has tie-ups with
a number of national and multinational corporates for health
check-up of employees such as Hindustan Unilever, Coca Cola,
Cisco, Swift, Lehman, Franco India Pharmaceutical group of
companies, Reliance Fresh, Moon Diamond, Shrenuj Company,
Lavanya Jewellers, Aditi Diampex Trading, Himalaya Drug, SICOM,
Voltas, Electrical Research and Development Association,
Cadbury India, Syndicate Bank, Union Bank, Canara Bank, NKGSB
Bank etc.
Outsourcing:
With the intention of making the
service activities more inclusive, the Trust Management
decided to outsource those services which were not available
from within. To achieve this goal, the Management has in place
arrangements for carrying out CT Scan and Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) with several outside institutions
at almost half the rate charged by them to their direct
customers. Currently such arrangements are working
satisfactorily with N.M. Medical at Bandra for patients from
western suburbs, Chitra Scan at Dadar for patients in central
Mumbai, Bhatia Hospital and N.M. Medical Chowpatty for
patients from south Mumbai.
It was always the ambition of
the Trust to provide inpatient and surgical services to its
patients at affordable costs. With this in view, the Trust has
made arrangements for hospitalization and conducting
surgeries where required with nursing homes in the
vicinity. Kashyap Nursing Home at Dadar T.T. and Royal Nursing
Home at Kurla(w) are some of the places where the
Trust's Panel surgeons can carry out Mini, Minor and
Intermediate surgeries at extremely affordable costs for the
benefit of the needy.
Angiographies and
Angioplasties: To extend its hand of assistance to
needy patients in the area of high cost investigations and
corrective treatments such as angiographies and angioplasties,
the Trust has reliable arrangements in place. Angiographies at
Rs. 8,100/- and Angioplasties at less than a lakh of rupees
depending on the nature and make of the stent are carried out
by city's renowned cardiologists on the Panel at reputed
hospitals under a special arrangement with the Trust.
Cataract Operations:
With the finalization of an
arrangement for doing Cataract Operations, the Trust's long
cherished dream has seen fruition. The Trust has worked out an
understanding with one of the Panel Ophthalmic Surgeons to
conduct Cataract Operations in his private theatre situated
close to the Medical Centre and many patients have
successfully been operated at the rates finalized by the
Trust. A Cataract Operation on one eye costs Rs. 3600/- with
Indian lens & Rs. 4600/- with imported lens.
Donor's Haven:
The Trust has been receiving
donations from time to time from liberal individuals who
desired to donate for a worthy cause. K.P. Shah Memorial
Complete Medical Check-up Scheme thus came into being.
This health check-up package included a host of
important pathological tests, Chest X-ray, ECG with personal
examination by physician, surgeon, ophthalmologist, dentist
and in the case of ladies a gynaec. The package comes at a
nominal rate of Rs. 1,000/- with senior citizens and couples
getting a discount of Rs. 100/-. Under annual donations made
by Dwarkanath Preventive Medical Centre, the
Trust instituted immunization for newborns such as Anti-Polio,
BCG, Anti-Tetanus, Anti-Measles and Hepatitis. The Centre
works on Sundays between
10.00 a.m. and 12.00 noon for
this extraordinary public service entirely free of charge
irrespective of caste, creed or religion. With post natal baby care having
progressed in leaps and bounds in the country, the Trust
wished to keep pace in this area too. As the planning was on,
a donor arrived to take the bill and Smt. Sitabai Rama
Nayak Memorial Well-Baby Clinic was established. A
child registered under this clinic would be taken care of for
the first five year period of its life, considered the most
important time for a newborn. This is the period of a child's
physical and mental growth and insufficient dietary needs may
result in some kind of permanent damage to the psyche of the
child. The Well Baby clinic endeavours to fulfill this
specific need of a child. Every child covered by it would be
examined thirty times during the 5 year period by Centres'
Pediatricians. The child is immunized with BCG, 3 primary
Triple and polio doses with 2 Boosters as well as Measles and
MMR vaccines. In recent years Hepatitis B immunization has
been included with 3 doses. There are ENT, Eye and Dental
check ups at required intervals apart from regular examination
by a Pediatrician. Free advice on general hygiene, child
health, myths and misconceptions in child care, family
planning, lactation, first aid, prevention of accidents etc.
are given without obligation. All that costs a family is Rs.
400/- down payment and the child is protected by a health
security net. The Registration is done on the first Sunday of
every month from 10.00 am to 12.00 noon.
Supply of free
drugs: In
order to fulfill one of its avowed objectives, the Trust
instituted a free drug fund
came in to
being after one of its
early stalwarts who had devoted a great deal of time and
effort to bring up the Trust. Thus the K.K. Kamath
Memorial Free Drug Fund came into being. The objective
was to reach out to those at the lowest rung of the economic
ladder and suffering from the deadly tuberculosis. A number of
people below the poverty line have greatly benefited by
receiving free
drugs for the entire duration of
drug therapy for this disease once considered dangerous to
life.
Welfare and other
activities:
As an adjunct to its main activities of
diagnostics, the Trust's Centres also maintain a number of
medical accessory equipment such as Fowler's Cot, Water Beds,
Oxygen Cylinders, Wheel Chairs, Commode Chairs, Bed Pans and
Walkers & Walking crutches. They are given on loan to the
needy patients at very nominal monthly rentals to enable the
user to retain them for periods as long as they desire.
Free and subsidized check-up
camps are held from time to time at one of the Centres of the
Trust. Such camps are
normally popular and are frequented by a lot of needy people.
As part of its annual fare, the
Trust holds an annual contest called "The Healthy Baby
Contest". The main thrust of this contest is to create
awareness of promoting `child health'. This annual contest is
held amidst a lot of fanfare at the time of Ganeshotsav
celebrations at the Dwarakanath Hall of Ram Mandir Wadala,
Mumbai. M/s. Indoco Ltd who have been in the forefront in the
manufacture of paediatric medicines have been the sponsors of
this for over a decade now. Literature connected with child
health is distributed by sponsors along with free doles of
tonics to the participating babies.
CME Seminars:
The objective of keeping
abreast with fast evolving medical science and technology has
been enshrined in the Trust Deed. In line with this, the Trust
holds CME seminars to promote awareness and health
consciousness. The Panel Consultants are encouraged to attend
such seminars to remain abreast with latest development in
medicine and pharmacology. The other aim of such seminars is
to promote familiarity among the panel Consultants and improve
on inter-referrals between Consultants. The seminars are
normally lightened with an entertainment program and a meal.
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