Eye Hospital
KG eye department has made great strides over the years in providing quality and affordable eye care to communities around Coimbatore. Some of the services provided are as follows.
- General Ophthalmology
- Cornea Clinic
- Vitreo ““ Retinal Clinic
- Glaucoma Clinic
- Oculoplasty /Squint Clinic
- Orbital Surgery
- Intra Ocular Implant Surgery
- Day care IOL surgery with Phacoemulsification
- Refractive surgery
- Contact Lens Clinic
- Eye Bank
- Scan Facility
- Fundus Fluorescein Angiography
- Yag Laser
- Argon Laser
- CT Scan/MRI Services
- 24-hour Lab Services
The department also runs a successful DNB Opthamology program (for more details about this program, write to (drgb@kggroup.com)
Community Ophthalmology Programme
The eye department has been very much involved with the community through programs such as “˜crusade against childhood blindness”™, which is a pediatric eye program aimed at elementary school children and inaugurated by former President APJ Abdul Kalam. Children are screened in their schools free of charge and brought to KGH if they require further treatment. In addition to this, the department also runs free eye camps and conducts free surgeries.
FREE CAMP STATISTICS ( as on 15/05/2014 )
| Year | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camps | 263 | 268 | 234 | 220 | 155 | 148 | 3909 |
| FREE Surgeries | 3138 | 3138 | 2710 | 2551 | 1659 | 532 | 87553 |
KG CRUSADE AGAINST CHILDHOOD BLINDNESS ( as on 01/05/2014 )
| Squint corre- ction | Cataract Extraction with IOL | Develop mental Glaucoma-surgery | Retinal Detach ment surgery | Laser -DCR | Ptosis | Dermoid Cyst Removed | Misc | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 53 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 33 | 148 |
Head doctors
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Dr.Manoj Ramachandran
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Dr.S. Padmanaban
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Dr. A. Sirinivasan