Kerala’s dominant private healthcare centres are to earmark 10 per cent of annual profits for poor patients, while at the same time, they will also position themselves in a way that they can still tap the medical tourism sector. This was announced by Philip Augustine, chairman of Kerala Health Tourism (KHT) 2007, at the second session of the health summit.

Dr Philip Augustine, along with neurosurgeon A. Marthanda Pillai (head of Ananthapuri Hospital) also said that the upcoming tourism policy would also contain more administrative qualities on the 10 per cent altruistic allocations.

Most of the hospitals in the big league tried to get credentials by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Indian Health Ministry-sponsored National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Institutions (NABH). Among some of the more prominent attendees were Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC) chairman Cherian Philip and the Commonwealth study group delegates.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Source: The Peninsula

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