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Going Home
Discharge Guidelines
FAQ
The comfort, familiarity and warmth your home can provide while you are recovering from a surgery is unmatched. We understand your eagerness and desire to travel back to your home country and home as early as possible. However, your surgery, condition and treatment might warrant an environment which is sterile, where you can be constantly observed and monitored by us for a certain period of time until your health condition becomes normal and you are ready to fly back. Only when this is achieved will we plan your discharge and issue a fit to fly certificate. Before getting discharged, please ensure you clearly understand the kind of care, rehabilitation, physiotherapy that you might need to continue doing once you are back home. Also clearly understand the medication regime that you need to follow and the diet and nutrition requirements that you have to follow to get back to better health. Please look at the discharge guidelines given below as you plan you travel back home post treatment and discharge from our hospital.
Practice moving independently
You will be supported and encouraged to get out of bed and slowly take that first step and walk around. You may feel tired and weak at first. The sooner you resume activity, the sooner your body’s functions can get back to normal
Pre-discharge discussion
Your treating physician and the nursing staff will discuss the medication regimen, diet and nutrition, any rehabilitation and physiotherapy that you need to continue doing once you are back home. Understand this clearly.
Collect your discharge summary
Please collect your medical reports, medication prescription, discharge summary and diet recommendations before you leave the hospital. Also check when you should have a review again with the medical team.
Pay the medical bills before discharge
Please ensure you settle all the bills prior to discharge. You can either do a cash settlement if you are not covered by insurance or if you are claiming back the reimbursement from the insurance provider Alternatively you can also pay by cash and settle all the bills.
Your diet and activity requirements
Clearly understand your nutrition and dietary requirements, when you can resume what level of activities, when you can head back to work, when you can lift heavy objects, what kind of rehabilitation or physiotherapy you have to do during the recovery period at home.
Prepare your home for your recovery
Once you are given a fit to fly certificate by our hospital and you fly back and reach you home, please ensure that its patient friendly and caters to any specific requirements which the medical team might have told you to arrange for in your house for faster healing and recovery.
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Visiting Hours
OPEN 24 hours 7 days a week.
OPD Timings : Monday to Saturday
( 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM )
Appointments
Emergency
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MGM Cancer Institute
No 119 & 121, Nelson Manickam Road, Raajeswari Street, Rajaram Mehta Nagar,
Aminjikarai, Chennai – 600029
