Medwin Hospital has received accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare (NABH), becoming the first hospital in Andra Pradesh to receive this accreditation and 20th in India. The certificate was presented by K R Suresh Reddy, AP Assembly Speaker in a function organized in Medwin Hospitals recently.
Speaking on the occasion Suresh Reddy said that Medwin has set the standards for other hospitals in the state to emulate. He congratulated hospital management always for striving hard to provide quality medical care. Efforts must be put in to take health care to the poorest of the poor, he urged the gathering assembled there.
Dr Ramesh Babu, chief cardiologist and managing director of Medwin Hospitals said NABH will have international recognition. "We were the first to get the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) certification earlier and now NABH Accreditation. This is expected to boost India's medical tourism, helping tourists on visit to India to help them restore to health from assortment of their ailments by accessing the best medical care of Indian doctors acclaimed as one of the best in world standards."
K S Rao, chairman of the Medwin said that India doctors are the world best. But, we have tremendous shortage of super specialists, he said. Adding further Dr Ramesh Babu said the certification endorses the various medical processes and treatment standards being adopted by Medwin to be of world class and international norms. It is an honour to be accredited by NABH for any hospital as it is issued only after a stringent analysis of the quality and care competence and leverages provided in any healthcare issues by the hospital and also the professionals related to that institution. It took Medwin two years to get the accreditation. As per the NABH mandate, the hospital went through three levels of evaluation - a pre-assessment, a final assessment and a verification assessment and was evaluated for compliance to 503 elements of the NABH standards. It is to the credit of the team Medwin that the hospital cleared each of these levels in one attempt.
NABH & Healthcare providers (NABH), a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation program for healthcare organizations which provide international standard quality, care and safety measures.