Health Care at Home has reported 8,000 patient visits in one year at Jaipur. Better awareness and rising disposal incomes are the factors that have created a new market for increased home healthcare services in Indian cities like Jaipur.
There has been a huge growth in the home healthcare market in Jaipur in recent years. More people are opting to seek care in the comforts of their homes, rather than spend long duration in hospitals where risk of infections is also high.
The home care market has developed and grown much beyond the nurse providing agencies that dominated the landscape of smaller cities till a few years back. Gauging the shift in market, today home care providers have adapted to the changing needs of patients and evolved into an industry that caters to a wide variety of needs of patients.
Noting this shift across India, Heath Care at Home launched its services in a few north Indian cities including Jaipur last year, and has contributed hugely to transforming the market, as well as demand and supply mechanics.
“Assume a patient who can be taken care at home but still in hospital because there is not expert hand at home who can look after him. At the same time, there is a needy patient waiting for bed. Home healthcare providers are coming as helping hand to the hospitals. They can never be substitute to the hospitals but will definitely be the extended hands,” said Dr. Javed Qureshy, consultant intensivist, department of critical care, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur.
With elderly patients needing special care in managing ailments such as arthritis, diabetes, hypertension; patients needing special post surgical care; healthcare providers are now offering radically new services at home that till a few years back could not be imagined.
Creating ICU services at home, providing chemotherapy to cancer patients at home, ensuring that critically ill kidney patients do not have to travel long distances several times a month by providing dialysis facilities at home – home healthcare providers have evolved their services dramatically.
According to Dr. Mumtaz Ali, senior consultant intensivist, department of critical care, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur, with advanced technology, home healthcare providers are also extending doctors reach to the maximum number of people who are unable to come to hospital or confined to bed.