The hospital will offer services with the same amount of attention and care in the confines of the patient’s homes, absolutely free of cost
Vikram Hospital, Bengaluru has launched post surgical home care services. The hospital will provide specialist support and post-operative care to such patients seeking lesser number of hospital visits, without compromising on the quality of care. It will offer these services with the same amount of attention and care in the confines of the patient’s homes, absolutely free of cost. The service was launched by Sampath Kumar, Corporator, Vasanth Nagar Constituency in the city along with Sudhir Pai, Executive Director and CEO, Vikram Hospital, Bengaluru.
The home service is expected to reduce the number of visits a patient has to undertake post surgery and help in their speedy recovery. Under the service, Vikram Hospital will provide a broad category of services like checking on vitals, suture removal, change of dressing, blood sugar monitoring, updating the status and progress of the patient to the consultant, etc. to name a few.
Pai said, “Vikram Hospital has already completed 500 home visits as part of a pilot project and has received excellent response from patients. Everyone has appreciated the facility and commended us on this initiative.”
Currently, Vikram Hospital has one dedicated van and three dedicated staff for home care.
EH News Bureau