A blend of quality care and medical technology

Source: GLENEAGLES HOSPITAL

Advanced medical technologies can be bought or copied. But ensuring the best quality healthcare providers to the patients, is where the challenge lies. Overcoming theses challenges, very few hospitals in Asia have been able to stand as a model of comprehensive and quality healthcare. Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore claims to be one of those which has set its standard to a new level. It has become the destination for a large number of patients from Asia and also other parts of the world.
In order to reveal its achievement and inform about the latest addition in its advanced medical technology, the hospital has recently organised its 16th Annual Seminar. Dr Vincent Chia, Chief Executive Officer of Gleneagles said, "The regional hospitals can compete with us in terms of technology and equipment but expertise is much more important." Referring to the world renowned specialists, Gleneagles has areas such as women's health, orthopaedics and lung cancer. He said, "Our doctors would make only a little cut and take out the whole pancreatic tumour. The skill is very important in these cases."
In fact, it is Gleneagles' expert team of physicians that attracts patients not only from Singapore but from countries even as far as that of the United States and the United Kingdom. "For international patients, Gleneagles provides same quality of healthcare as found in developed countries but at a cheaper cost," explained Steven Mok, a senior marketing manager of the hospital.
About 20 percent of Gleneagles' patients come from Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh and even India, he informed.
Parkway Asian Transplant Unit in the hospital is the Asia's leading centre for liver diseases and liver transplantations. Jointly managed by Gleneagles and Asian American Liver Centre, it is also the most active living donor liver transplantation unit in Southeast Asia, the floor is designed in such a way that post-surgery patients can receive close monitoring and comprehensive care by Gleneagles' team of specialised, multi-disciplinary doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals round the clock.
The hospital not only treats patients but also make people aware on how to prevent diseases. A distinct feature among Gleneagles doctors is that they try to suggest minimum intervention into the body to treat a problem, rather emphasise on prevention techniques.
According to Urogynaecologist Dr Christopher Chong the first surgery is the most important surgery, since with each subsequent one the body gets more and more affected.

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