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Meet stresses need for accreditation of hospitals

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FOR QUALITY: Principal Consultant of the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Service Providers V.K. Singh speaking at a Confederation of Indian Industry- Quality Council of India awareness programme on Accreditation of Hospitals in Coimbatore on Wednesday. —

COIMBATORE: Quality patient care and facilities in hospitals, especially in the light of medical tourism, were stressed here on Wednesday at a meet on Accreditation of Hospitals, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Coimbatore Zone, and the Quality Council of India (QCI).

The meet was organised to generate awareness among hospitals in the district on the process of accreditation by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH), a wing of the QCI. The CII and its healthcare panel had been emphasising accreditation as hospitals would not be able to survive without world class quality standards at the global level. And, it became even more necessary when overseas patients would look for accredited hospitals.

Principal Consultant of NABH V.K. Singh explained the process of evaluation of hospitals. He said the technical committee of the board had prepared standards against which applicant hospitals would be evaluated for the grant of accreditation.

The standards provided a framework for quality assurance and improvement, he said during a presentation on this subject. These laid immense stress on patient safety and quality of care. These standards were applicable equally to hospitals and nursing homes in the private and Government sector.

The board would also take up the accreditation of blood bank and medical imaging services.Vice-Chairman of the CII, Coimbatore Zone, C.N. Ashok said the healthcare sector had been growing rapidly in the past few years, especially after the developed world discovered that it could get quality service in India for less than half the price.

With an annual growth rate of 30 per cent, India was already inching closer to Singapore, an established medicare hub that attracted 1.5 lakh medical tourists a year. Hospitals in India conducted the latest surgeries at a very low cost. The healthcare industry employed over four million people and this made it one of the largest service sectors in the country’s economy, Mr. Ashok said.

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