First unit of GPT Healthcare, ILS Hospitals started in Salt lake in 2000 in the form of a eight-bedded surgical specialty unit. Over a period of 12 years it has grown into a 83 bedded hospital. Dr Om Tantia a leading name in laparoscopic surgery in East, has more than 30,000 surgeries to his credit.
He has led the facility towards the growth pathway with focus on academics, which has been a differentiator from rest of the hospitals. Dr Tantia has mentored this domain by training over 300 surgeons in this field. His compassion for providing healthcare services to public has been a critical factor to bring in transparency and trust for ILS Hospitals.
Other specialties of prominence are gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynaecology and diabetics. Over 25 specialists from obstetrics and gynaecology alone are attached to ILS Salt Lake, and cater to an extremely large number of deliveries and gynaecological procedures.
Comprehensive diabetic setup at the hospital is led by Dr GS Goyal. Providing services since the last 12 years, with clinical excellence as the focus, it has made its name in a wider geography.
With growth, ILS Salt Lake has maintained its essence as a centre of excellence in laparoscopic surgery. It still remains the preferred neighbourhood hospital for the area inspite of the presence of other healthcare brands in the vicinity. Besides this, it also caters to people of the entire East and North East region of India for specialties of laparoscopic surgery, high-risk gynaecology and diabetology.
A lot of people travel to Kolkata for their healthcare needs from the Northeast. Keeping this in mind, GPT Healthcare conceptualised to have a high-end hospital setup in Agartala, Tripura. ILS Hospitals, Agartala a high- end multi-speciality, super-specialty hospital was commissioned in October 2011, with a capacity of 205 beds, eight major operating theatres covering all major surgical domains, intensive care units with 50 beds across various ICUs, advanced imaging facilities like 64 slice CT and 1.5 Tesla MRI, well equipped triage and pathology all under one roof. It has a 24-hour emergency and ambulance facility, blood bank, haemodialysis facility and 24-hour pharmacy.
ILS has a wide range of clinical specialty offering like general medicine, general and laparoscopic surgery, paediatrics and neonatology, etc. Recognising the need of super specialty services, especially in the field of cardiology and cardiac surgery, an advanced cardiology setup was established in the hospital as well. The cath lab performs angiograms, angioplasty and several other high-end requirements for the population. Noninvasive cardiology is well supported with equipment for echo-cardiogram, stress test and Holter, besides the routine ECG form. Combined, they form the diagnosis forefront for crucial cardiac problems.
The setup also has a highly advanced CTVS operation theatre with special provisions to ensure it is always at positive pressure. The department is also equipped with high-end equipment like the heart lung machine with which the hospital has made complicated procedures like beating heart surgery a reality.
The OT complex consists of eight theatres which are equipped with high-end anaesthesia machines, motorised OT tables for different specialties, high lumen and precision OT lights, operating microscope, high-end laparoscopic equipment, heart lung machine, electro cautery units, and other fine instruments for each speciality.
A fully-equipped central sterile supply department (CSSD) is also available to provide surgeons with sterile supplies for operating rooms, cath lab and procedure sets for all outpatient and inpatient area. Intensive care unit (ICU) with specifically trained staff are key not only to the hospital services but have played a key role in reducing the exodus to Kolkata. Neonatal ICU along with dedicated team of highly trained professionals in paediatrics and obstetrics has been a boon for handling of high risk pregnancies.
Diagnostics include an advanced imaging and pathology department. Imaging services are comprehensive with digital X-ray, ultrasound, mammography, 1.5 Tesla MRI, 64 Slice CT. Pathology department has haematology, biochemistry, clinical pathology, serology, microbiology, histopathology and is capable of doing advanced diagnostics required in this era of clinical advancement like ‘Hormone assay’ and ‘Cancer Markers’.
The hospital building complies with all statutory norms including fire safety and bio-medical waste management. Emergency medicine with doctors and trained staff round the clock, dialysis unit with four haemodialysis machines and blood bank are among the crucial patient requirements. In a short span of 12 months, it has touched life of around hundred thousand patients over out-patient and inpatient services spread across various clinical specialties.
To meet the shortage of trained nursing staff, GPT Healthcare has set up a nursing school – ILS Nursing Institute at the ILSA campus. With annual admission capacity for 40 general nursing (GNM) and duly recognised by the Indian Nursing Council and Tripura State Nursing Council. Recently ILS has come up with a 130-bedded multispecialty unit at North Kolkata popularly known as Dumdum (DD). Besides its prominent location, this unit is one of the first comprehensive facilities in this part of city.
| Dr Vishal Goyal |
With its launch in May it has already started catering to the healthcare needs of the people in the neighbourhood. ILS -DD is a multi-specialty hospital catering across a wide variety of services like consultations, surgeries, diagnostics, for outpatient and inpatients across medical specialties like internal medicine, diabetology, gastero-enterology, neurology, nephrology, etc besides surgical specialties like laparoscopic and pediatric surgery, urology and others.
ILS DD has OT complex with four theatres equipped with high-end anaesthesia machines, motorised OT tables for different specialties, high lumen and precision OT lights, operating microscope, high-end laparoscopic equipment, electro cautery units, and other fine instruments for each specialty.
All intensive care units are grouped at the third floor of ILS DD to optimise the specifically trained staff, who are scarce, but key resources to patient care. Neonatal ICU along with a dedicated team of highly trained professional in the field will be the key in handling of high-risk pregnancies, besides catering to the critical out-born babies.
Paediatric ICU is an area which enhances the scope of critical care treatment to the age group of 15 years. The establishment of all these intensive care beds will provide backup support to a lot of nursing homes in the area.
Dialysis unit with six haemodialysis machines is also among the crucial patient requirements. Imaging services with digital X ray, ultrasound, mammography, 1.5 Tesla MRI, 128 Slice CT provide the hospital with the backbone to serve to critical trauma cases apart from the routine out and in patient cases. The pathology department with advanced automated equipments in sections of haematology, biochemistry, clinical pathology, serology, microbiology, and histopathology is capable to cater to patient needs. In order to support clinical cardiology, ILS DD also offer non-invasive cardiology facilities for echo-cardiogram, stress test and Holter, besides the routine ECG. With a bed strength of 400+ bed strength, GPT Healthcare is a system driven organisation controlled from its head office. All units have a well defined management structure and hierarchy. An aggressive HRD initiative keeps driving continuous technical and non-technical training calendars. Central procurement helps to optimise and improve the material margin. Financial controls and audits help keep a check and balance across all locations. An active marketing on ground force driven by incentives, meets doctors to motivate them to channelise patients to ILS Hospitals. They conduct health camps in remote areas, awareness programmes in neighbourhood, corporate tie-ups, periodic health screening through special campaigns and are also supported by information centres at appropriate locations. Besides the curative component, all hospital units equally focus on preventive healthcare by providing health check-ups.
ILS hospitals is shortly pursuing NABH accreditation which would be helpful to give it a neutral quality certification besides being helpful in improvising the systems. The commitment to everyone coming to ILS Hospitals offers comprehensive healthcare under one roof to all at an affordable cost.