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can be a year or more, whereas in India, the patient can undergo the operation the very same day he gets off the aircraft, making the concept of waiting period totally irrelevant.
Quality Care
Indian healthcare facilities are increasingly complying with stringent quality standards and acquiring international accreditations. Today, India boasts of 11 JCI accredited (www.jointcommisioninternational.com) and 23 NABH (member of ISQua) accredited (www.qcin.org) medical care facilities and many more hospitals are in the process of acquiring the coveted accreditation in near future.
India’s value proposition goes beyond cost as India healthcare providers focus more and more on quality and technology. Escorts Hospital, for instance, is one of the few treatment facilities worldwide that specializes in robotic surgery. India has the second highest number of qualified doctors in the world. The Indian specialists have performed over 500,000 major surgeries and over a million other surgical procedures including cardio-thoracic, neurological and cancer surgeries with success rates at par with the international standards. For instance, the success rate of cardiac bypass in India is 98.7% against 97.5% in the US.
Led by a string of corporate hospitals like Apollo, Manipal, Fortis healthcare, Columbia Asia, Narayan Hrudayalaya etc., India’s medical infrastructure is truly world-class today and is backed by state of the art medical equipment and top quality diagnostic services. The world’s top medical equipment manufacturers like Siemens, GE, Toshiba, Israel based Europe-Israel group, German companies- Steres and BSN medical GmbH etc. either already have or in the process of setting up bases in India to meet the growing need of Indian medical infrastructure.
The quality of Indian diagnostic services has already been recognized and there has been a substantial increase in outsourcing of pathology and laboratory tests by foreign hospital chains to India. India’s top pathology and laboratory chains like SRL Ranbaxy, Metropolis, etc are already handling outsourced work for a host of leading US and UK based hospitals.
India has also proved its credentials in delivering quality radiology services and is providing teleradiology services to a number of US and UK based hospitals. Bangalore based, Teleradiology solutions is already a leader in teleradiology space and serves more than 60 hospitals in US and Singapore. It is fully accredited by JCAH0 and has HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant processes. The company also boasts of an accuracy of 99.8%, above the accepted standard of 96-97 percent in the US.
The recognition of numerous Indian hospitals by leading global insurance players like CIGNA, wellpoint, BUPA, American Bluecross Blueshield association etc. further reaffirms the qualitative superiority of Indian healthcare delivery systems.
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