Thursday, June 30 2005 17:47 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bangalore: Manipal Hospital today (Jun 30, 2005) made foray into primary healthcare with the launch of its first "Manipal Clinic" at Jayanagar in Bangalore.

With the opening of Manipal Clinic at Jayanagar, Manipal Health System has become the first integrated healthcare delivery model in Bangalore with primary health clinics, secondary care hospital and tertiary care referral centre.

Mr R Basil, Chief Executive Officer, Manipal Health System said, "In recent years our industry has seen a paradigm shift to customer driven healthcare delivery models. Our vision at Manipal is to provide affordable health care to everyone in the most-friendly manner. With Jayanagar like primary health centres, we will now be able to extend our services to more people." Manipal Health System already has a tertiary care referral centre on Airport Road and the secondary care Manipal Northside Hospital at Malleshwaram.

The hospital plans to soon expand the Manipal Clinics to more places in Bangalore, sources said.