SILCHAR, April 26 � Fortis Hospitals Ltd, India�s leading superspeciality healthcare group, launched its first information centre in Silchar on Saturday.
The hospital chain, which has a network of 53 hospitals across the country, is now all set to extend its super speciality services to the people of Silchar with this information centre.
Addressing the media, Ashish Mukherjee, manager marketing, Fortis Hospitals said, � Fortis has been present in Kolkata for a considerable period of time and has extensively catered to the people of neighbouring states by offering them quality medical services with utmost care. We have been receiving a large number of patients from this part of East India who come for complex surgeries like cardiac, joint replacement etc. and have gone back healthy and satisfied. We feel now is the time for us to bring Fortis care close to the people of this region and the information centre is just a beginning.�
The information centre is a unique concept where people can get information regarding specialities and various offerings at Fortis Hospitals. Specialists across the area of heart care, orthopaedics, neuro science, urology and nephrology and digestive care will be visiting the information centre regularly and will be available for consultations. This will help the people of Silchar, besides the surrounding areas to consult the specialists from tertiary care hospital in their own city and will give them access to best of medical talent, super speciality care and treatment.
Addressing the media, Dr Kushal K Kar, Gynaecologist & fertility specialist, Director, Mediland Hospital & Research Centre, said, �It is our pleasure to welcome such a super speciality hospital network to begin their services in Assam starting with their information centre in Silchar. There was an utmost need of advanced quality medical services in Silchar and I believe with this information centre the people will now have easy access to super specialists and consult them in their city itself. They don�t need to travel miles to consult doctors and get an expert opinion. I congratulate Fortis Hospitals in this endeavour and wish them the very best. Hopefully, they will come with a much more larger medical facility for the people of North East in the near future.�