is India's largest privately owned chain of cancer hospitals with a network spread across 26 centres in India, Africa, Oman, Vietnam and Iraq. For over five years HCG has been defining the future of cancer care in India. With over 37,000 new cases per year, HCG is recognized as a leader in oncology and has nearly 400 doctors and 275 oncology and oncology related doctors. One of the major differences is that we partner with doctors in various forms to develop centres of excellence in different. We also treat certain percentage of people who are below poverty line, they could be in some of the government schemes or in some of the schemes through our HCG foundation through which we are able to subsidize and help them through our hub-and-spoke model. HCG has made cancer treatment accessible to patients. The important difference is that we have made accessibility easier and at the same time, high quality of care which is also affordable. Chairman & CEO Dr. BS Ajaikumar believed in bringing the hub-and-spoke model to create multiple centers across India to make cancer care affordable, at the same time, bringing high quality care by introducing linear accelerators even in Tier2/Tier3 cities. Also, the cornerstone of his vision was the belief that cancer can be treated only one way: the right way, the first time.

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HCG’s Care Quality Better Than UK NHS, says IFC-World Bank study

A forthcoming study conducted by SEO Amsterdam Economics, commissioned by International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of World Bank, suggests that HCG has made meaningful impact towards health outcomes through improvements in access, quality of care, and health sector standards. It has also added economic value by directly and indirectly supporting jobs creation. Key Outcomes:

Quality Experienced: The quality indicators suggest that experienced quality of care is high at HCG, higher than some global comparators including the United Kingdom National Health Services hospitals.

Quality Delivered: At the level of patients’ health, the available evidence suggests that HCG has made an important contribution towards improving the quantity and quality of health outcomes.

Access to Oncology: At the level of health sector, it is creating an impact with improved access to oncology care (including via hub-and-spoke model), improving quality of cancer care and setting new standards in clinical care through its state-of-the-art technology investments and quality system.

Job Creation: At the level of wider economy, HCG contributes to provide employment directly and indirectly in multiple sectors and regions across its network of operations.

HCG’s Hub-and-Spoke Model a Harvard University Case Study

HCG’s unique and extremely successful hub-and-spoke model has been a case study at Harvard Business School. A group of Harvard researchers studied how HCG has not turned away a single poor cancer patient in all these years and also its drug dispensing model. In the hub-and-spoke model, a central hub hospital performs high-end imaging, therapy and complicated procedures at lower cost while the spokes (HCG hospitals in Tier III cities) provide basic therapy and follow-ups in the patient’s local communities. HCG has also set up pharmacies at its hub-and-spoke centres, which lowered drug cost as they were procured directly from the manufacturers, greatly benefiting low-income patients.

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Social Impact

Improving Women & Child Health in Villages

HCG's successful intervention in improving the health of women and children in rural Karnataka through its non-profit initiatives – Bharath Cancer Charitable Hospital & Institute Trust (BCCHI) and International Human Development and Upliftment Academy (IHDUA) - paves the way for it to play a larger role in healthcare sector across the country.

Besides creating awareness about cancer and conducting free cancer detection camps in rural areas, BCCHI, along with Karnataka Health Systems Development Project, successfully implemented project "Access To Women's Health Services" in the six sub-divisions of Mysuru district during 1998-2000. The focus of the project, funded by World Bank through Karnataka Government, was to screen women between the age group of 10-60 years for gynecological problems, STD, menstrual issues, breast and cervical cancer, besides training medical officers, supervisory staff and auxiliary nurse midwives, and creating necessary awareness. Almost 40,396 women were screened in about 396 camps held in the six sub divisions of Mysuru Rural, Gundlupet, Chamarajnagar, Nanjangud, HD Kote and Yellandur.

To improve the health of rural women and children, BCCHI in partnership with IHDUA started a pilot project in 10 villages of Mysuru’s Gundlupet sub-division, among the most backward and drought prone regions of Karnataka. The successful intervention in these villages has led the project to expand its reach to 60 more villages of Gundlupet through over 500 women and men self-help groups, which have proved to be powerful vehicles of change.

BCCHI also successfully implemented another key project "Helping Malnourished Children" in Somahalli village in Gundlupet sub-division in 2012. The project catered to 60 malnourished children in three anganwadi centres of the drought-hit village. All the children (families) were given three different varieties of pulses including protein-rich sprout pulses. The families were also given 8kg of high protein energy powder, besides 10 kinds of vegetable seeds. The children were examined every month for growth and deficiencies.

In its endeavour to improve access to last-mile healthcare and screen people for cancer in inaccessible rural areas, HCG has been operating a hi-tech mobile bus clinic equipped with mammography, digital X-ray and other necessary devices in North Karnataka, benefiting thousands in the regions.