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City hospital sets foot in Africa
City-based Global Hospitals has forayed into East Africa by launching a state-of-the-art, 125-bed facility in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region in the United Republic of Tanzania. The facility known as Tasakhtaa Hospitals is located at Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The hospital has been opened in association with business group Turky’s Group of Companies.
City-based Global Hospitals has forayed into East Africa by launching a state-of-the-art, 125-bed facility in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region in the United Republic of Tanzania. The facility known as Tasakhtaa Hospitals is located at Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The hospital has been opened in association with business group Turky’s Group of Companies. Salem Turky, chairman of Turky’s Group of Companies, said that he had conceived the project almost 17 years ago and approached various hospital groups across the globe over years to help translate the vision to reality.
It was only when his wife was successfully operated upon at Global Hospitals in Chennai for a complex cardiac surgery that he approached Dr Ravindranath who agreed to partner and help improve the healthcare in Africa. Announcing the hospital launch, chairman and MD of Global Group Dr K Ravindranath said, “People of Zanzibar and Tanzania no longer have to go abroad for quality medical care.
Tasakhtaa Hospital would offer world-class services at a fraction of the costs in Europe, the US and south Asian countries. The Zanzibar facility will provide primary and secondary care services, with some level of tertiary care, and will focus on promoting health and wellbeing of the citizens while preventing outbreak of diseases.” Dr Ravindranath added that the Zanzibar facility will be one of the nodes of the Global Hospitals’ plans for a regional healthcare network.
The group is already in advanced talks regarding a tertiary care hospital in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania and also evaluating few other opportunities in rest of the Africa and Middle East as well. The Tasakhtaa Hospitals has been equipped with advanced laboratory services and high-end imaging modalities like 4D USG, 16-slice CT and 2D ECHO, endoscopy suites, advanced intensive care units, an advanced laparoscopy unit, and five operation theatres.
