The Abdur Razzaque Ansari Memorial Weavers Hospital located in Irba, 17 km from the heart of the state capital, is no longer a unit of the Apollo group with Gurgaon-based Medanta-The Medicity, which takes over this month. Known for nearly 19 years as an Apollo unit, the 200-bed hospital treating more than 60,000 patients per year is now called the Medanta Abdur Razzaque Ansari Memorial Weavers Hospital.
Sayeed Ahmed Ansari, the hospital's founder and director (projects), however, told The Telegraph that there had been a change in name and ownership, not care. "Sanitation facilities will further improve with dedicated internal departments for many more ailments," he said, adding that a formal function to announce the new name will be held later this month.
"Dr. Naresh Trehan, a leading cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon and founder of Medanta-The Medicity, will come here this month and then we will have a formal presentation function.Health facilities have been upgraded to fit the Medanta standard and its name, "he added.The complementary health care facilities that can be expected at the sliced hospital now include Medanta breast services, respiratory management, robotic surgeries and pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and liver transplantation.
He emphasized the motives for the change from Apollo to Medanta, and Ansari said: "Our agreement with Apollo expired in March of this year.There was another important factor that influenced.In our agreement with Apollo, there was a clause that the group can not find another hospital within a radius of 100 km.But you should know that Apolo signed a memorandum of understanding with Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) last year to find a hospital here.This specific move disappointed us, so we hope the agreement to expire to find another partner. "
Sources at the state health department said the Apollo Group was interested in setting up a hospital on a 2.80-acre plot in Ghaghra, near Doranda. "A formal memorandum of understanding has already been signed between the RMC and the group, but the project was delayed when Mayor Asha Lakra is not satisfied with some points," said one official.
V. Satyanarayana Reddy, CEO of Apollo Hospitals, Southern Region, received the award letter of then-Prime Minister Hemant Soren in March 2014 to run the Ghagra Hospital in PPP mode.In the same role, Health Minister Rajendra Prasad Singh had said that his government had asked Apollo Group to participate in the global bidding process to run the superspecial building at the Ranchi Sadar Hospital facility in PPP mode.
"Medanta's boss, Dr. Trehan, was here in March to review the building built at the Sadar hospital facility, but things did not adjust.Now, Medanta has joined the Abdur Razzaque Ansari Hospital.On the other hand, Prime Minister Raghubar Das has announced that the vanguard wing of the Sadar hospital will be administered by the government, so it is difficult to say what is happening and who will ultimately lead the unit of superspeciality, "said a senior health department official.