No patients here, only guests

<div class="section0"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">BANGALORE: No more patients, only ''health check guests''. Around twenty new-age clinics being set up across Bangalore are offering new comforts in patient care for all consultation and diagnostic services.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">Here, patients are now considered as ''health check guests.'' These hi-tech clinics are set to redefine convenience for out-patient consultations in Bangalore.The ubiquitous attender seated outside the consultation room has changed role as a health care co-ordinator, providing you personalised care throughout your consultation and more.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">Call them speciality clinics, diagnostic centres or just family health centres, the ensemble of medical prowess these super-speciality health care infrastructure is extending its hospitality skills to day-to-day primary healthcare segments as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">Guests are ushered into spacious waiting rooms and treated to the comfort of books, music and more, while the healthcare coordinator gets the medical records processed for the doctor the patient chooses to see. Health checks and master health check packages, diagnostic services including treadmill, EEG, ECG, CT scans are all available in the deal.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">Over a dozen general physicians and specialists are available for consultation. While GPs are available throughout, prior appointments are a pre-requisite for specialists.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">"Our clinics go beyond a GP scribbling up some tests for the patients. Personalised, quality healthcare facility is provided for a range of services under one roof at cheaper rates," says Sudha Kamalnath of Apollo Clinic, Koramangala. Their centres have come up in Malleswaram and Yeshwantpur as well.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">Head of Kanva Diagnostics Dr HM Venkatappa says the centre''s monthly orientation meetings for staff and consultants depend upon the feedback forms collected over the month. "Our healthcare co-ordinators work towards helping patients complete lab work, investigation procedures and consultation in time. There is no scope for long waiting periods."</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="">It''s as if the rich pool of doctors and medical practitioners are getting together to offer affordability, wellknit services and patient satisfaction in the day-to-day healthcare segment.</span></div> </div>