WALKING the talk is what the management at MIOT Pacific Hospitals, formerly known as Suva Private Hospital, are doing with their major expansion plans.
With two months since their launch earlier in January, Fiji’s first private hospital has undergone major developments as part of the new operations acquired by Indian-based multi-speciality hospital, MIOT (Madras Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology) International.
Spearheading these plans, MIOT Pacific director Avi Raju yesterday gave on overview of the progress of the expansion plans that were initially announced during their launch.
A major project that the hospital is carrying out is the construction of a modern diagnostic centre at their basement area as part of their expansion valued about $14 million.
“Things are progressing well and we are doing the things that we said we would do the project has been moving within the timelines that we anticipated,” he said.
“The expansion at our basement area is expected to be due at the end of the third quarter of this year.”
Mr Raju said they had also welcomed new specialists who would be based at the hospital on a full-time basis.
With the new specialised services at the BSP LIfe co-owned hospital, Mr Raju has confirmed that a new fee structure has been developed while no changes would be made to the existing outpatient charges.
“Our outpatient fees, we are not increasing it but for the new areas of specialisation, there will be a new fee structure for it,” he said.
And as part of the hospital’s commitment to upskilling their local staff, Mr Raju has revealed that they would be sending two of their local staff to their mother hospital in India.
The two staff members are the the hospital’s team leader pathology and independent practitioner Rajeshni Mala and specialist radiologist Dr Jonetani Kama.
“We are just not here to import skill sets but we are here to also grow the local skills sets as well,” he said.
“They will be spending two weeks in Chennai looking at how things are done over there looking at way things are done and learning to come back and implement the same procedures here.”
