Healthcare beyond Business as usual
In the post COVID years, there is now a greater urgency to spruce up healthcare. Medical professionals are now making an extra effort to better deliver on the specialized healthcare front.
In the past half a decade a rapid transformation has been noticed in the field of private healthcare sector. For Lucknow what started off with a handful of clinics a decent network of nursing homes and 10,000 medical shops, medical and healthcare infrastructure has gone up considerably. The entry of big players like Health City, Medanta and Apollomedics has made sure that good healthcare is available closer to home.
Quality brands with high medical standards have ensured have ensured an offering of wide range of services.
Having entered the medical scene in the city in 2019, Medanta Hospital is armed with 600 beds, including a 202-bed ICU, 14 NICU, 40 dialysis machines, and radiation oncology. Its niche offerings include liver and kidney transplant facilities. Recent achievements include robotic and laser surgery facilities.
Medanata is not alone in this race, Apollomedics Lucknow, a 330-bed hospital has 110 beds for critical care, biplane cath labs, Tru-Beam LINAC for advanced cancer treatment, 24×7 dialysis, blood bank, pharmacy, and a trauma unit. It also offers preventive health checks.
Looking ahead, Apollomedics plans to expand tertiary care facilities in Varanasi, Kanpur, and Gorakhpur, further boosting healthcare standards.
After a great run, Health City will have one more vertical adding to its repertoire that of Health City Vistaar. Lucknow has other private healthcare providers like nursing homes, diagnostic centres, pharmacies, physiotherapists, and dentists.
After its Sahara takeover, Hospital chain Max Healthcare Institute Ltd acquired a 100% stake in Starlit Medical Centre for ₹940 crore.
Starlit had entered into a Business Transfer Agreement (BTA) with Sahara India Medical Institute Ltd for purchase of Healthcare Undertaking consisting of 550 bedded Sahara Hospital, Lucknow, on a slump sale basis. Sahara Hospital is located on a land parcel of 27 acres at Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. Hospital Group Regency Health announced that it has received an investment of ₹450 crore from Norwest Venture Partners. According to the company, this funding will help drive its plan to increase the bed capacity to 2,300 by the year 2027.
Regency Health operates super-specialty hospitals in Kanpur, Lucknow, and surrounding cities and rural areas in Uttar Pradesh.
By August 2024, the hospital is set to open a 250-bed facility in Gorakhpur, followed by another 450-bed unit in Kanpur in January 2025, a 350-bed unit in Varanasi in January 2026, and another 375-bed unit in Lucknow by February 2027,” Regency said in a press release. It added that it is also looking at other cities for expansion.
Overall along with providing better emergency facilities to serious patients, research and technology in the medical field will be promoted. The number of beds in the trauma centers of government medical colleges will be doubled to 200 beds each. At present there are 35 government medical colleges. With this, there will be a total of seven thousand beds in all these trauma centres. Rs 300 crore will be spent on upgrading Trauma Center Level 1 to Apex Trauma Centre.
A 500-bed hospital will be built in Ayodhya at a cost of Rs 70.33 crore. There will be 400 general beds and 100 trauma beds. Five crore rupees have been given for the establishment of a medical college in Balrampur. Paramedical college will be established in Government Medical College, Kannauj at a cost of Rs 45 crore.
Health labs will be established
Under the Prime Minister Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, Rs 952 crore will be spent on the establishment of Health Wellness Center Care Unit and Integrated Public Health Lab in villages and cities. A 500-bed super specialty hospital will be opened in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. Along with this, School of Medical Research and Technology will also be established. Rs 10 crore has been given for its construction.
Medical college will improve health system
Government Medical College will be built in Varanasi at a cost of Rs 400 crore. The AYUSH department will also establish a Government Homeopathic Medical College here. Medical colleges are being built in 14 districts. Rs 964 crore has been given to complete their construction. These include Bijnor, Kushinagar, Sultanpur, Gonda, Lalitpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Chandauli, Bulandshahr, Sonbhadra, Pilibhit, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat and Kaushambi.
1,600 health and wellness centers will be established
The AYUSH department will set up 1,600 health and wellness centers across the state. 1,035 government homeopathy, ayurvedic and unani hospitals will be converted into health and wellness centres. Rs 99.11 lakh has been given for the construction of Chief Medical Superintendent of Homeopathy offices in 18 divisions, Rs 3 crore has been given for the construction of 16 new Ayurvedic and Unani officer offices.
Special in medical sector
Rs 300 crore will be spent on Mukhyamantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
Rs 7,350 crore will be spent on National Rural Health Mission.
Rs 322 crore will be spent on Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana.
Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay State Employees Cashless Medical Scheme will cost Rs 150 crore.
Rs 125 crore to provide free treatment facilities to incurable patients.
Linear accelerator machine will be purchased in Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer Center, Varanasi. This machine is worth Rs 40 crore.
