The Wockhardt Hospitals inaugurated its 'New Age Wockhardt Facility' in South Mumbai.  The 350-bed multi-speciality hospital at Mumbai Central was launched by 16 medical experts from hospitals in Boston, USA and hosts two institutes in excellence:'Wockhardt Heart Institute and 'Wockhardt Critical Care Institute' .

The hospital has a longstanding preferred collaboration with Partners Medical International(PMI), an associate of Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals.

At the inauguration, Dr Habil Khorakiwala, founder chairman, Wockhardt Group said, “ We realised that Mumbai as a serious requirement for emergency services Our new facility is an answer to this unaddressed gap. Our association with Boston's key hospitals including Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will ensure that the best medical expertise in the world is available to the patients here.”

The partnership will help bring to Wockhardt's patients, global standards of care and clinical expertise. Senior staff at the hospital, including doctors and nurses have undergone training at Harvard Medical School.

The 21-storeyed , state-of-art tertiary care hospital is Wockhardt's largest flagship and will have full-time committed consultants, surgeons, physicians to drive the healthcare services.

Talking about the technology and equipment, Zahabiya Khorakiwala, managing director, Wockhardt Hospitals, said that the hospital was equipped with world-class advanced technology and equipment which guarantees best care and facilities

On elaborating, she informed to Pharmabiz that the investment for the overall advanced technology and equipment was around Rs. 100 crore, facilitating an advanced concept for patient monitoring such as IntelliSpace Critical Care and Anaesthesia (ICCA), which is an integrated system for capturing real time, accurate patient vital data in the critical care units. It enhances nursing availability for patient care and facilitates speedier evidence-based clinical decision making at the bedside.

Several such technologies in the hospital make clinical decisions more accurate, for instance fully-equipped ambulance in the critical care helps to track the location and also the condition of the patient till his/her arrival to the hospital, particularly at the time of stroke thereof providing the doctors and the professionals to work towards patient safety and deliver healthcare to the global standards in the country.

There are 100 critical care beds and emergency /trauma care services, enabling the hospital to be the first paperlite ICU in Mumbai  and 30 beds have been allotted for the poorer section of the society

“We have plans to come up with another such facility in New Delhi in a couple of months and confirmed the launch of one such facility, a month ago in Mira Road, Mumbai,” informed Habil Khorakiwala.

Dr Gilbert Mudge Jr, MD, president and chief executive officer, Partners Healthcare International, Professor of Medicine-Harvard Medical Schoo; Dr Peter Hou, MD, Instructor, Emergency Medicine- Harvard Medical School , Dr Mehul C Mehta, vice-president, International Business, Partners Medical International, Dr Shekhar Bhojraj, Consultant Spine Surgeo, Wockhardt Hospitals, Dr Suresh Joshi, Director, Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Centre, Wockhardt Hospitals, Dr Prakash Jiandani, Group Director, Critical Care, Wockhardt Hospitals , Dr Samuel Mathew, Principal Advisor & Group Director-Cardiology, Wockhardt Hospitals, Dr Shirish Hastak, Group Director, Neurology and stroke Wockhardt Hospitals,  shared their perspective highlighting the challenges in certain areas of healthcare.