Amrita Hospital Faridabad: Amrita Hospital launches specialized clinic for asthma patients, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Faridabad: Amrita Hospital, Faridabad launched a specialized clinic for patients suffering from severe asthma, which will provide focused attention and access to the best treatments available.

During the launch of the specialised clinic, Dr Sanjeev K. Singh, Medical Director, Amrita Hospital Faridabad, said, “Bronchial asthma is a common yet poorly managed respiratory ailment in our country. Patients with asthma require comprehensive management of their disease and very often need specialist advice for their management. The facility will offer medical services to those suffering from an extreme form of asthma. The clinic will be patient-centric, affordable, and accessible to all segments of the population.”

With the aim to provide comprehensive and high-quality care to patients, the department of pulmonary medicine will focus on asthma patients of all severity levels.

Informing that all investigations that are relevant to asthma would be done under one roof, Dr Arjun Khanna, Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine said,”There are a number of instruments and diagnostic modalities that are not available in most of the hospitals in North India. The clinic’s true USP is that most tests are all available under the same roof, at the same time.”

Dr Sourabh Pahuja, Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, said, “Patients with very severe asthma require certain drugs such as biologics. So, testing for those who are eligible for biologics is also available at our centre. This assessment requires special tests like the skin prick test, IOS ( Impulse Oscillometry), and FeNo (Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide), which are all available to us. With these facilities, we can check for asthma in very young patients. So even pediatric patients would benefit from this.”