NPR’s “All Things Considered” features HMI’s work in India
Today the National Public Radio program “All Things Considered” is airing a piece on the emerging health care networks of India, like long-time HMI partner Wockhardt Hospitals Limited. NPR correspondent Richard Knox researched the story. From his article on the NPR website:
Vishal Bali, CEO of the Wockhardt Hospitals Group, says his company — far from the largest Indian hospital chain, but with big ambitions — formed an alliance with Harvard because “we felt what we needed was a partner who would hand-hold us into getting the best practices from the American heath care system.”
The chief hand-holder is 8,000 miles away in Boston. Dr. Robert Crone, president and CEO of Harvard Medical International, says he wants to lift medical care around the world to Harvard’s standards.
“We don’t think twice about the fact that, no matter where a 747 made in the United States flies, anywhere in the world, the standards are the same,” Crone says. “Why doesn’t that happen in medicine? Well, it’s beginning to happen. It’s going to take another decade or more. But we have to stop thinking so provincially about health care.”
We hope to post a link to the archived audio as soon as it is available.
Update: We have posted an MP3 link to the NPR broadcast on the HMI homepage. It’s about 13 minutes long. Give it a listen.
Update II: The new issue of HMI WORLD now has a link to the broadcast on the Audiovisual page.
“we felt what we needed was a partner who would hand-hold us into getting the best practices from the American heath care system.”
It is also important for Americans to have an open mind to share the best practices in India’s Medical System which is primarily through the mind. Meditation and prayers are the key to cure in People intense countries.