New Avatar of Ayurveda

AyurVAID hospital group is leading the transformation of ayurveda into a mainstream healthcare system beneficial to all segments of society, increasing both the quality and the accessibility of treatment available, reports M Neelam Kachhap

What do you expect to see when you walk through the doors of an ayurvedic hospital? Indian ambience, massage rooms, neatly dressed receptionist but not a certificate from the National Board of Accreditation for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) adorning the front wall. Yes! An NABH certification captures your attention as soon as you enter India’s unique ayurvedic hospital ‘AyurVAID’.

This is not the only landmark achieved by this three-year-old hospital, located at Domlur, Bangalore. The hospital has recently been approved by the Karnataka Government to provide cashless facility for ayurvedic treatment to all state government employees and their families. With this AyurVAID has become the first and only ayurvedic hospital in India to receive quality accreditation and government approval for its facility.

The Hospital

Rajiv VasudevanCEO, AyurVAID Hospitals

AyurVAID is run by the umbrella company Kerala First Healthcare Services. The brain child of Rajiv Vasudevan, AyurVAID Hospitals integrates classical ayurvedic with modern allopathic practice to treat chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and stroke. The first two hospitals are in Kerala: a 15-bed one at Ernakulum and a 30-bed one at Aluva.

 With a current strength of six hospitals and health centers across five states in India, AyurVAID has grown to be a chain of hospitals, providing in-patient and out-patient facilities with pharmacy, consultation and a healthy ayurvedic diet. It not only provides curative but also preventive treatment for severe chronic diseases. AyurVAID has also introduced a low-cost hospital format called AyurSEVA, located in poor communities such as Dharavi, a slum of Mumbai, featured in the Bollywood film, 'Slumdog Millionaire'. However, all the hospitals abide by the same standards of service. “AyurVAID is patient-centric and uses standardised processes to deliver safe, effective and affordable care to all strata of society especially poor communities,” informs Rajiv Vasudevan, CEO, AyurVAID Hospitals.

Courtesy:Express Health Care