Sahara Prime City Limited will develop largest Tele-Medicine network covering 220 Hospitals

Patients in Sahara Hospitals will be able to get experts consultation from across its 220 hospitals across India

• The multi super-speciality Tertiary Care Sahara Hospital, Lucknow shall be the central hub for tele-medicine
• Tele-medicine network will cover all the multi-specialty Secondary Care hospital proposed to be developed in all 217 Sahara City Homes Townships, Super Speciality Tertiary Care Sahara Hospitals at Aamby Valley and Multi-Speciality Tertiary Care Sahara Hospital at Gorakhpur

Lucknow, 30 March 2009: Sahara India Medical Institute Limited, the subsidiary of Sahara Prime City Limited, will connect all its 220 Hospitals through Tele-Medicine Network. The network will cover the 554 bedded multi-disciplinary super-speciality Tertiary Care Sahara Hospital Lucknow, UP; 1500 bedded multi super-speciality, Tertiary Care Sahara Hospital at Aamby Valley City, Maharashtra; a 200 bedded multi-speciality Tertiary Care hospital at Gorakhpur, UP and 30 bedded multi-speciality Secondary Care Hospitals proposed to be developed across all the 217 Sahara City Homes Townships.

The 554 bedded multi disciplinary super-speciality tertiary care Sahara Hospital, Lucknow, which offers 52 specialities, shall be the central hub for these Hospitals. All the 220 hospitals will have a capability of multiple concurrent Tele-Medicine sessions complimented by Tele-consultation to enable doctors at different centers to share expert opinions and advice on any patient at any of these hospitals. These hospitals will be equipped with hi-tech IT facilities for transferring patient's data, Medical Records, Audible Signs of patients and Diagnostic Images and Videos, both live and stored across all 219 hospitals with support from Sahara Hospital, Lucknow.

Sahara Hospitals adopts the International conventions of Telemedicine. All the OPD consultation rooms at Sahara Hospital, Lucknow will be upgraded to Tele-consultation rooms and this way there would be multiple concurrent Tele-consultation sessions possible for different specialties from a single hospital, at a single point of time. These OPD consultation rooms will have redundant network available for up to 1000 Mbps connectivity and will have options to install High Definition LCD for Voice & Video Session along with 17 inch TFT Monitor for viewing Patient data online. Doctor sitting at the OPD consultation room can view the data of any patient available across any of the 217 Sahara City Homes Hospitals on a single click of button and give him real time Tele-consultation.

All critical parameters of patients admitted at these 217 Hospitals can be viewed ‘Live’ with the help of integrating bed-side monitors to the Tele-Medicine Server located at Sahara City Homes and the same will be linked on a dedicated lease circuit to Sahara Hospital, Lucknow. To avoid any link failure as well as server failure, reasonable level of redundancy will be provided in the system. Besides this, a separate level of Back-up Servers will be placed at a different location to ensure that there is no loss of data.

For the first time in India, Integrated Tele-Medicine System to transmit patient’s Medical records from HIS (Hospital Information System), Radiological Images from PACS (Picture Archival and Communication System) and Voice & Videos simultaneously will be functional across all the 220 hospitals.

The 30 bedded multi-specialty secondary care hospital across each 217 Sahara City Homes Township will have strong infrastructure and round-the-clock medicine facility center with all the specialties of Secondary Care level. These hospitals will provide major specialties like Gastroenterology, Cardiology, General Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, General Surgery, Neonatology, Paediatrics, Physiotherapy, Orthopaedics, ENT, Dentistry and Ophthalmology.

These hospitals will offer advanced diagnostic facilities like Digital X-ray, Ultrasound, 2D Echo (Color Doppler), TMT, Video Endoscope, ECG, Nasal Endoscope and Colposcope through latest generation medical equipments. A full-fledged Pathology Lab with support from Sahara Hospital, Lucknow and 24 hrs. Pharmacy located at the ground floor for easy access from outside and inside the hospital will also be a part of these 217 hospitals.

The 217 secondary care hospitals will offer Quality Medical Care with round-the-clock casualty/emergency services backed with 24hrs. Ambulance Services (Air-conditioned Mobile I.C.U. equipped with life saving equipments). Each hospital will consist of two OTs (a major and a minor) with dedicated ancillary spaces. For best possible Critical Care as per the international protocols, a 4 bed well-equipped ICU unit is planned with life saving high end equipments like Ventilator, Bed side monitors, etc. In addition, one isolation Critical Care will also be provided. Specialized Mother & Child Care facility will provide maternity services in elegant and warm atmosphere supported by Neonatal Intensive Care Unit & Immunization Facilities. Centrally air-conditioned general wards with spacious private and semi private wards with attached convenience facilities and special area dedicated for Health promotion and preventive health care with provision of special check-up packages, consultation and counseling will also be provided.

Mr. Sushanto Roy, Head- Infrastructure & Housing, Sahara Prime City Limited said, “The hospitals at Sahara City Homes Townships are conceptualized to be patient friendly and aim to provide medical facilities of highest standards. The Integration of latest IT & Medical Technologies will contribute to achieve the highest standards of Medical Care and Research in the network of 220 Sahara Hospitals

The secondary care hospitals will have spacious bed lifts for swift and comfortable transportation of patients, Central Sterilization and Supply Department (CSSD) supported by latest generation automated equipments, Central Medical gases and vacuum, Exclusive Service lift connecting all floors for easy service, big open air cafeteria and laundry, Housekeeping and all other ancillary spaces.

About Sahara Hospital

Sahara Hospital is a 554 bedded, Multi-Disciplinary, Super Speciality Tertiary Care Hospital at Lucknow. With the objective of setting a benchmark of excellence in advanced, hi-tech and multi-disciplinary medical services in Asia, the hospital will provide high-quality tertiary care facilities affordable to all the strata of the society in congenial atmosphere.

Sahara Hospital is a project of Sahara Indian Medical Institute Limited (SIMIL) a subsidiary of Sahara Prime City Limited.

About Sahara Prime City Limited

Sahara Prime City Limited is the real estate company of Sahara India Pariwar. The company is into developing commercial and residential properties. Sahara Prime City Limited has developed residential and commercial projects which include townships, premium group housing projects, hospitals, hotels, to name a few.

The flagship project of SPCL is ‘Sahara City Homes’, a chain of townships to be developed across 217 cities in India. The other projects of SPCL are hotel ‘Sahara Star’, a luxurious 5 star Deluxe Hotel located near Domestic Airport in Mumbai.

Sahara Prime City Limited has proposed to develop Multi-speciality Secondary Care Hospitals in each of its 217 Sahara City Homes Townships across India. The company also has plans to develop a 1500 bedded Super Speciality Tertiary Care hospital at Aamby Valley City and a 200 bedded Multi-Speciality Tertiary Care hospital at Gorakhpur, UP.

Sahara Prime City Limited is also in the process of developing a 1,320 MW Thermal Power Plant at Balangir District of Orissa.

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