ISRO, conferred the prestigious Award of Recognition, to the Emergency Medicine Department of Apollo Hospitals Bangalore, in recognition of its long contribution in developing the HEALTH QUEST, patient safety protocols for emergency departments.
It is heartening to note that the pilot studies conducted in Dr. Mehtas hospital, Chennai and Narayana Health City, Bangaluru, based on the learnings from ISRO, have yielded positive results, the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said in a statement late on Tuesday.To derive wider benefit from such knowledge-transfer from ISRO and further improve on the way the services are provided at these departments, it is planned to implement the Health-QUEST Quality Upgradation Enabled through Space Technology studies in 11 selected hospitals across the country, it said.