NE Indis’s first home-based health care service launched

Guwahati, Aug 31 (PTI) North East India’s firsthome-based healthcare service, HOMELTH, aiming to reachhealthcare services to the homes of those in need of medicalneed was launched here today. As a part of the initiative, doctors and nurses willbe available on call 24×7 to respond to any urgent healthcareneed along with physios, dieticians and paramedics, Homelthfounder and CEO Dr Simanta Sharma said. ”This is a paradigm change in the way medical care isdelivered wherein instead of patients going to the hospital,medicare comes to one’s home and quality care is delivered atthe patient’s bedside where they can recuperate at theircomfort and convenience”, he said. It has been observed that 75 per cent of the patientsusually throng a hospital OPD are actually those who can betreated in the comfort and convenience of one’s home and manyaspects of less critical care can now be provided at homethreby freeing specialists and superspecialists to take careof more critical cases, Sharma added. ”HOMELTH is a modern innovative and technology servicewherein the traditional concept of the familiar friendlyfamily physician has been blended with modern innovative andtechnological breakthroughs in medical science to deliver thebest home medical care services in the city”, he added. The services will be available initially withinGuwahati but it will be gradually extended to other parts ofAssam and subsequently to other Northeast states. The service will not only have doctors and nursesreaching the homes of those in need of medical attention butalso ancillary services like sample collection for conductinglaboratory tests, delivery of medicines and ECG at thedoorstep of the patients. PTI DGSUS