India's Ramaiah Memorial Hospital partners with Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai will help RMH develop clinical competencies in numerous specialty areas

India spent just 3.28% of its GDP on healthcare in 2021, one of the lowest in the world; Japan, for example, spent 10.82, while France spent 12.31%, Israel spent 7.9%, and the U.S. spent 16.57%. 

The Indian healthcare system is also ranked at number 112 worldwide according to the health index score, which is calculated by evaluating various indicators that assess the health of the population, and access to the services required to sustain good health, including health outcomes, health systems, sickness and risk factors, and mortality rates. 

So, the country has some work to do, which may be helped by a new collaboration between an Indian and American hospital system: on Friday, Ramaiah Memorial Hospital (RMH), a multi-super-specialty quaternary care hospital based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, announced that it signed an exclusive agreement with the New York-based Mount Sinai Health System with the aim of advancing healthcare services through collaborations in clinical excellence, quality of care, research, innovation, and technology.  

Through the partnership, Mount Sinai will support Ramaiah Memorial Hospital in advancing the development of its clinical competencies and centers of excellence in specialty areas that include oncology, cardiology, neurosciences, urology-nephrology, along with other clinical specialties. 

In addition, there will also be a periodic review of Ramaiah’s complex clinical cases by both Ramaiah’s and Mount Sinai in order to assist Ramaiah in identifying the best treatment options for patients.  

RMH is a 500+ bed hospital which has internationally-benchmarked capabilities in numerous fields, including organ transplantation, cardiology and cardiac surgery, radiation and hematological oncosciences, nuclear medicine, neurology, neurosurgery and neurointerventions, interventional gastroenterology, joint replacement and arthroscopic surgeries, urology-nephrology, high-end gynaec-oncology surgeries, plastic and cosmetic Surgery, high-end cosmetology, laparoscopic surgeries, vascular surgeries, as well as robotic surgeries in urology, gynaecology, oncosurgery and gastroenterology.    

“With our strategic collaboration with Mount Sinai Hospital New York, our offerings as a leading healthcare provider in the region will be compounded manifolds and will open doors for providing patient care, safety and quality excellence along with possible medical research for our clinicians as well as to learn and acquire the latest clinical exposures from the best minds at Mount Sinai via virtual webinars, workshops and on-site case reviews/discussions as part of the collaboration initiative," Dr. SC Nagendra Swamy, President of Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, said in a statement.

"Ramaiah is committed to empowering its team of healthcare professionals through advanced training programs, workshops, and access to the latest medical research, knowledge, techniques and technologies."

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