Running in its third year, Arogin Healthcare & Research Centre (P) Ltd is a team of highly qualified medical professionals who without hesitation call themselves the present and future of quality medical services in Nepal. Biplob Prasai of APEX interviewed Roshan Pandey, its Managing Director. Excerpts.
What is Arogin Healthcare & Research Centre?
To be precise, Arogin Health Care and research Center is a group of companies. We have five companies associated with us, with our name. Arogin is a dream project of the team of 11 doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (AIIMS). Doctors like physiatrist Dr Pawan Sharma, orthopedic surgeon Dr Sushil Paudel and Dr Ramesh Kadel, the only doctor in the field of geriatrics in Nepal.
What are the services provided by Arogin?
Out of many, I’ll discuss a few. In the field of physiatry, we have a product for stress management, which is the need of the hour. And in case of Dyslexia—a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols—we have doctors who are super specialized. We are associated with many school and Montessori and we run special clinics for children.
When it comes to orthopedic problems, people think pain is cured only by surgery. But there are other solutions. We have ‘Arogin Pain Management Center’, and our own Physiotherapy center where we focus on curing pain via a combination of medicine and therapy.
And lastly, Dr Ramesh Kadel had a thought to establish a care home for elderly people in Nepal while doing his Doctor of Medicine (MD). His thoughts met our vision. As opposed to an old-age home, we established ‘Arogin Care Home & Home Nursing Service’ in Budanilkantha.
It’s a bungalow, and we designed the interior in order to hide medical equipment as much as possible. We provide proper diet, nutrition and care to elderly people with love and affection. The concept of old-age home has been sullied a bit in Nepal. We hope to improve its image.
What are your objectives?
We hope to be the second opinion in Nepal. Here, people are misguided and confused about treatment. Doubts leads them to fly abroad.
People generally go to India or Singapore for treatment. But 30 percent of total doctors in Singapore are from AIIMS. Arogin provides the same doctors right here in Nepal. Moreover, highly specialized doctors are added cherry on top. In the field of dentistry, our doctor are attempting something called maxillofacial surgery, which will be the first for Nepal. We are also starting primary dental services with three doctors, all of whom have Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) from AIIMS.
The gap between Nepal and other countries when it comes to treatment options is decreasing. We hope to start medical tourism in Nepal, which is easier said than done. But, in the case of hair transplant, this is already true, with our clients coming from as far afield as India, broader Asia and Europe.
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