Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday launched ‘eACCESS’ initiative of the Apollo Hospitals that enables remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units by experts all through the day. A command centre has been set up at Apollo Hospitals, Jubilee Hills from where experts will be able to monitor all the vital statistics of patients admitted in ICUs of Apollo Hospitals in other cities.
State-of the-art systemThrough the new system, one intensivist, an ICU specialist, will now be able to monitor 40 to 50 patients and help the onsite care unit to take relevant actions in real time and prevent complications. The command centre is equipped with high-end monitoring stations comprising computers that will receive clinical and laboratory data of patients, who are admitted in the ICU.
‘Need for tertiary hospitals’After inaugurating the ‘eACCESS’ initiative, Mr.Rao said there was a need for more tertiary hospitals in Hyderabad, as the capital’s population has crossed one crore. “We are also promising our investors that we will come out with the best industrial policy in the country in addition to close to 10 lakh acres of land for industrial activity in and around Hyderabad,” he said.
Deputy Chief Minister T. Rajaiah urged the Apollo group to play a vital role and help spread awareness on “ailments at primary healthcare level in villages”.
The Chairman, Apollo Hospitals, Dr. Pratap C. Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Sangita Reddy, TRS MPs Kadiam Srihari, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy and others were present.
