Power Letters 2022: Alisha Moopen, deputy managing director, Aster DM Healthcare

  • Date: 15-Jan-2022
  • Source: Gulf Business
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:UAE
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Power Letters 2022: Alisha Moopen, deputy managing director, Aster DM Healthcare

The last two years have been the toughest in the recent history of healthcare with the pandemic creating havoc with healthcare systems worldwide. Aster DM Healthcare remained right in the epicentre of managing the pandemic, serving a large number of Covid-19 positive patients who sought care with us across countries, and also working in partnership with governments to strategise and implement Covid management protocols to address the crisis. While Covid took a major toll on our business, we were required to be operational and even expand capacity on several occasions to ensure that we serve and help as many people as possible. This pushed us to adapt quickly, innovate to introduce new solutions and optimise to bring in best operational efficiency. The year 2021 proved to be turn-around year for Aster where many of these strategies were put into action and we are now set on the path to ensure sustainable and accessible quality healthcare for all. Digital transformation and the use of technology has become integral to our core operations with the adoption of efficiency measures. For example, we introduced the E-ICU model during the peak of the pandemic and lockdown which ensured that our best critical care experts