E-hospital launched for medical opinion from global experts

Two Indian doctors have made it possible for anyone in need around the world to consult best global experts from various super specialty fields through their e-hospital.

PTI | May 2, 2011



At a time when US president Barack Obama has urged his citizens not to opt for "cheap treatment" in India, two Indian doctors have made it possible for anyone in need around the world to consult best global experts from various super speciality fields through their e-hospital.

The new virtual hospital 'Mediangels', provides comprehensive, cost-effective online consultation of health information and consultation and highly specialised medical services to people with health problems all across the world from best doctors from different parts of the world," the founders Dr Arbinder Singal, a paediatric urologist, and Dr Debraj Shome, a facial plastic surgeon, told PTI.

"At MediAngels panel we have 300 of the world's most renowned doctors from 85 super specialties (including children specialists) who have come together to bring about a revolution in the healthcare space. Whether you want to consult a super specialist for confirming a diagnosis or the plan for treatment, Mediangels will offer ethical, evidence- based medical advice to the patients directly," they said.

"The practicing physician in any remote corner of the world can also take help so that patients need not undertake unwanted travel for treatment," they said.

Fifty per cent of the consulting specialists in the panel are from India and the rest fifty per cent include experts from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, Sweden, China, Serbia and Japan, they said.

The consulting website www.mediangels.com was launched on January 26 this year and it is committed to make healthcare affordable with a personal touch of a specialist, they said adding that so far 250 online consultations have taken place.

When asked about the fee for consultation, they said, "we have kept a very nominal fee of Rs 500 for Indians and USD 100 for those from abroad."
 

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