pride over the new launch. It said, “It started with a joint replacement center here and then forayed into establishing 11 multispecialty hospitals all across India. With that this hospital was also converted into a multispecialty hospital. With the launch of SOCE it is being converted from multispecialty into an orthopedics specialty center which is owned and operated by Shalby Hospitals. Whilst earlier it used to provide treatment for all specialties, now it will provide focused orthopedics services”.
The Ahmedabad SOCE facility is Shalby Multispecialty Hospitals’ second orthopedic specialty franchise facility in India, following the inauguration of a SOCE in Udaipur last year. This is a dedicated, modern, comprehensive service, walk-in orthopedic facility that specializes in the comfortable and high-quality treatment of all joint replacements, orthopedic diseases, accident & trauma, and sports injuries under a single roof.
It will offer a broad variety of orthopedic services such as knee and hip replacement surgery and features a modern innovative operation theater, intensive care unit, and emergency department. It will provide patients with both OPD and IPD services. This will assist a large number of patients seeking world-class orthopedic care as they follow cutting-edge technologies in its treatment here. The facility will be extremely beneficial in orthopedic crises for residents of the surrounding areas. Additionally, it will provide an opportunity for young and brilliant physicians to work alongside a world-class infrastructure established by SOCE.
Dr. Vikram Shah, Chairman & Managing Director of Shalby Multispecialty Hospitals, shared his future plans. He said, “This is our second SOCE center in India. We are launching one more in Rajkot soon and then one in Gwalior later. Our plan is to start 50 such smaller orthopedics franchise hospitals all across India in the next five years. This will enable people from smaller cities to access best in class orthopedics treatment at their own doorstep. Personally for me, this is like the second innings of our first hospital in Ahmedabad which I started in 1994. After being a multispecialty hospital for fifteen years when we established our SG Highway hospital in 2007 this too was converted into a multispecialty hospital. With the launch of SOCE here, it is again being turned into an orthopedics franchise center now.”
