Medanta Medicity has opened its OPD centre in Chandigarh at Omni Clinic and Diagnostic Centre; Super specialists from various medical disciplines will offer affordable consulting to patients in tricity
Medanta Group has tied up with Dr Sandeep Singh Chhatwal to setup Medanta’s MediConsult in Omni Clinics and Diagnostics (Sector 34) in the city for running OPDs.
According to Dr Naresh Trehan, chairman and managing director of Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, growing demand from patients in the northern region for various super-specialities has led to this collaboration.
Instead of patients travelling to Gurgaon, the super specialists would be in Chandigarh to examine the patients, said Dr S K S Marya, chairman of Bone and Joint Institute of Medanta. Dr Marya is an international authority in joint replacement and has over 15,000 surgeries including 3500 simultaneous knee replacement and 3000 hip-replacement surgeries to his credit.
Dr. Marya who conducted the first OPD at Omni Clinics on Monday said that not every patient requires joint replacement and since the technology is evolving rapidly the world over, some of the latest techniques are revolutionary which are customized to the patients’ actual needs.
Dr. Sandeep Singh Chhatwal of Omni Clinics and Diagnostics said that the mission is to help the people get right advice at the right time from the right super specialist, which they shall be facilitating. Also present on the occasion was Sukesh Thareja, Vice President of Medanta who informed that some of the super specialists scheduled to visit the city shall be from paediatrics neurology, cancer, cardiaology, neurology, etc., which would be pre-advertised, and the next step would be to setup a tele-medicine facility so that the specialists at Medanta can be consulted by patients at their convenience too.
Medanta-The Medicity was first set up at Gurgaon in January 2010. Now, the Group also operates two others medical facilities – Medanta – Mediclinic and Medanta – Mediclinic Cybercity in New Delhi and Gurgaon respectively.
