Tier 2 cities of Maharashtra lead in offering quality medical and hospital services

 The state of Maharashtra is India’s leading industrial state while Mumbai, its state capital is known as the financial capital of India. Maharashtra is well developed in terms of public services such as education, transport, agriculture and to a certain extent healthcare as well.

Public Health Services in Maharashtra are divided into two major departments which are Public Health Department and Department of Medical Education and Drugs. These are governed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

As per the statistics, Health Care System of Maharashtra Government includes 363 rural government hospitals, 4 general hospitals and 23 district hospitals. These hospitals come under the direct purview of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In fact, Maharashtra is the first state to have nearly 1300+ beds across nine hospitals dedicated to female patients only. Over the above this, there are more than 380 private medical hospitals with a bed capacity of more than 30,000 beds for looking after the medically ill patients.

The state of Maharashtra is actively involved in providing assistance to people who cannot afford health coverage especially that offered by private insurance companies. It is linked with National Health Mission, National Rural Health Mission and Health Insurance Programme in order to cover medical costs of the rural and financially backward population of the state. Over and above this, it encourages its residents to opt for public or private health insurance.

Those people who prefer to get themselves treated at Government hospitals can visit the Government Hospital near Panchakki while for cancer treatment can approach the Government Cancer Hospital which is located at the Aam-khas Maidan in Aurangabad.

It is a matter of pride that almost all important cities of Maharashtra are rapidly modernising in terms of infrastructure and industrial development. Across the state, you will find well planned and laid out network of road and rail transport along with well-defined industrial zones ensuring economic and financial development in the cities of Nashik, Aurangabad, Dhule, Baramat, Nagpur and so on. Along with financial and economic development, cities like Nasik and Nagpur are also gradually developing their medical sector as well. There are quite a few multi speciality hospitals in the city. With renowned hospitals like Apollo are present in Nasik, it is quite possible to get comprehensive treatment within the city itself. Even complex procedures like knee replacement are quiet easily done in most of the orthopedic hospitals in Nashik.

On similar lines, these cities are modernising in terms of residential accommodation along with healthcare facilities for their residents. Most of these cities have many modern private hospitals functioning along with civil hospitals.

The city of Aurangabad is referred to as the Tourist Capital of Maharashtra as it witnesses a huge influx of tourists, both national as well as international to visit ancient monuments especially the Ajanta and Ellora Caves. Hence, this fifth largest city is well equipped with hotel accommodation options and food choices catering to the visiting population.

Within this scenario, Aurangabad is emerging as a medical tourism hub offering many ultra-modern hospitals with latest medical facilities and expert doctors available to treat patients. In fact, special mention regarding the hospitals for orthopedic treatment in Aurangabad has to be highlighted here. With hospitals like Wockhardt in Nagpur, people can get themselves treated for Joint Replacement, Arthroscopy, ligament reconstruction, trauma care, partial as well as total knee replacement surgeries. The orthopaedic hospitals in Nagpur provide multi-disciplinary orthopaedic services.

These hospitals are equipped with latest diagnostics tools and surgery units that can perform minimally invasive orthopaedic surgeries too. The orthopaedic surgeons in Aurangabad are capable of handling patients across all age groups viz. children, adults and even senior citizens.

The establishment of well facilitated orthopaedic hospitals in Aurangabad has been a boon to people who live in nearby cities of Dhule, Jalgaon, Parbhani, Beed, Nashik, and many more. They can always visit Aurangabad and seek best orthopaedic treatment at reasonable cost while they save upon travel cost and time as well. With an army of well qualified and highly qualified orthopaedic surgeons in Aurangabad, total knee replacement, joint replacement, arthroscopy procedures can be conveniently done here.

Patients can also opt for rehabilitation and physiotherapy treatment which follows most orthopaedic procedures in Aurangabad itself. There are many well established physiotherapy clinics spread all across the city.

Aurangabad is also equipped with pediatric orthopaedic correction facilities, a one of its kind in Central Maharashtra. This facility is capable of handling trauma patients, spinal deformity correction, cerebral palsy surgeries and other orthopaedic corrective surgeries and procedures. This proves to be a much needed service to people who reside in the interior of Maharashtra as they can take advantage of them at the convenience and save upon critical time factor as well.

As mentioned earlier, Aurangabad is tourist city and hence is well connected by rail, road and flight services. The Chikalthana airport of Aurangabad is located just 11kms away from the city. Meanwhile, rail and road transport is well connected to cities of Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Udaipur, Hyderabad, Chennai, Amritsar, Madurai, and many more.

Hence, there are high chances that Aurangabad to emerge as a medical tourism hub in Maharashtra in the coming times. As the city witnesses new developments, Aurangabad will emerge as major medical tourist destination that promises state of art medical treatment in orthopaedics, cancer, plastic and cosmetic surgery along with gastroenterology, nephrology and other lifestyle disorders.

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