Guwahati: This will surely bring a hahi (smile) to many a patient's face.
The Guwahati Accident, Trauma and Emergency (Gate) Hospital, set up in Mathgaria, primarily to provide emergency medical services, has announced a hahi scheme by which treatment will be provided at a subsi-dised rate to patients from po-or and middle class families.
Doctors and other medical staff are usually not present at night in most hospitals and nursing homes in the city, leading to problems in cases of emergencies like accidents, heart attacks, burns and other medical complications, and this 50-bed hospital attempts to bridge that gap.
Announcing the scheme, hospital director Bedabrata Pathak said, "Gate Hospital is a super-speciality hospital with 55 consultants in all major medical departments to provide diagnostic, therapeutic and intensive care facilities in a one-stop medical centre. It is our endeavour to provide proper medical facilities at night. Since our inauguration six months ago, we have performed operations on more than 1,000 patients and treated innumerable emergency patients. We are now launching a hahi scheme to provide treatment to poor and middle-class patients at a subsidised rate."
"Under the scheme, free outpatient department services will be offered from the 25th to 30th of every month while operations will be conducted at a subsidised rate from the 1st to the 7th of every month. ICU facilities are being offered at Rs 2,000 per day. Every Friday operations by ENT specialists will be done at a very low cost. For families of patients who travel long distances, we will provide free transportation to and from the railway station, Narengi, Jalukbari, inter-state bus terminus and Khanapara. Day-care treatment will be provided to patients who undergo minor surgeries so that they do not have to stay in the hospital and incur expenditure. We also offer a discount of 20 per cent to senior citizens. We will provide five ambulances for free transport to patients from Diphu, Nalbari, Tamulpur/Pakrijuli, Hatsingimari/Mankachar and Baihata Chariali," Pathak said.
The hospital has set up super-speciality outpatient centres at Chandmari, Silpukhuri and Narengi in the city and at Nongpoh (Meghalaya) and Tamulpur in Baksa district.
