Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: Fortis Hospital Ludhiana in association with Health Line Multispecialty Clinics Jammu launched its first Patient Information Centre, here.
Addressing a press conference, Vivan Singh Gill, Facility Director, Fortis Hospital Ludhiana disclosed some of the major highlights of the Patient Information Centre.
“Patient Information Centre will assist the patients in not only for booking online appointments with doctors but also handling enquiries about admissions, packages related to surgical, day-care procedures and preventive health check-ups”, Gill said, adding that Fortis Hospital Ludhiana has initiated the Patient Information Centre to avoid the inconvenience faced by the first-time patients from Jammu and the adjoining areas, who can get the first hand information and prior booking for their health-related queries.
Dr VK Sharma, Director CTVS, Fortis Hospital Ludhiana, said “The new advancement of scientific techniques has resulted in great progress in cardiac surgery making it extremely safe. With the advent of minimum invasive heart surgery, bloodless surgery, lasers, recovery has become faster and has shown long lasting effects.
Dr Munish Sharma, Consultant CTVS, Fortis Hospital Ludhiana, said “At Fortis Hospital Ludhiana, expert team of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, known to be the best in India provide all cardiac services to patients in an effort to combat and survive the killer disease.
Dr Neeraj Bansal, Senior Consultant Knee and Joint Replacement Surgeon said Department of Advance Orthopaedics at Fortis Ludhiana was performing joint replacements since 2 years from now. All kinds of joint replacements like knee, hip and shoulder were being successfully done.
Manish Sharma, Senior Leader, BJP said “Fortis Hospital Ludhiana has a team of world renowned, experienced and highly qualified Doctors available 24×7 to attend to all emergencies”.
Dr Deepak Kumar who is Chief Patron Health Line Multispeciality Clinics said patients will get proper information regarding package of treatment from these information centres and special concessions will be given to the patients who get consultation at Fortis Hospital Ludhiana Patients Information Centre.
Prashant Puri, Director Health Line Clinics, Jammu, Tejdeep S Randhawa, Pawan Sharma, Member Jewellers Association Jammu, Dr Gurdarshan Singh and Harish Sharma, Sales and Marketing Department were also present.