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Coimbatore Poised to become Medical Tourism Centre
All the hospitals in Coimbatore have multi and super specialty facilities with treatment options for all ailments conforming to international standards. These hospitals also have state-of-the-art equipment in all specialties.
Jaresh Trehan, executive director of Escorts Heart Institute and Research center, a leading private healthcare provider says India has established world-class and small budget expertise in hospitals such as cardiac care, cosmetic surgery, joint replacements and dentistry. For example, in April 2005 Madras Medical Mission, a Chennai based hospital, successfully conducted a complex heart operation on an 87 year old American patient at a reported cost of $8000(£7000, £4,850) including the cost of his airfare and a month's stay in hospital. The patient claimed that a less complex operation in America had earlier cost him $40,000.
From knee replacement to the kerala massages, from cardiac Surgery to a Cultural Tour of Rajasthan, Dental Care or Cataract Operation or the serenity of the Golden Temple or the adventure on Sariska Wildlife. Dream destinations with ace health facilities a novel way to heal are the hallmarks of Medical Tourism. A reason for celebration by credible India!
 In Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore is an other city, which is in the making of Medical Tourism Destination. "Coimbatore is poised to become a destination for Medical Tourism as International flights are needed in Coimbatore. Also, the city needs more five star hotels and infrastructure. If these are provided, there will be good occupancy in all hospitals," says Dr. G. Bakthavathsalam, the President of Coimbatore Hospitals Association with about 120 members. Dr. G. Bakthavathsalam is the Chairman and Managing Trustee of KG Hospital and Post Graduate Medical Institute, Coimbatore; Chairman of KG College of Health Sciences and KG Healthcare and Vice-Chairman and MD of Sri Kannapiran Mills Limited. In his leadership, the hospitals, with 5,000 beds are functioning successfully.
The major hospitals in Coimbatore include:
- KG Hospital
- PSG Hospital
- Ramakrishna Hospital
- GKNM Hospital
- KMCH
All the hospitals mentioned above are multi and super specialty facilities having treatment options for all ailments conforming to an international standard. These hospitals also have state-of-the-art equipment in all specialties. All the hospitals put together offer direct employment to about 20,000 people consisting of doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, managers, etc. The hospitals also provide indirect employment opportunities to over 50,000 persons. These hospitals also substantially provide job opportunities to representatives of Pharmaceutical companies and surgical companies in promoting their products and services.
Future plans of Coimbatore Hospitals Association are:
- To obtain accreditation for hospitals and promote Medical Tourism in a big way.
- Tackle the problem of Bio-Medical Waste Management.
- Promote hospitals of Coimbatore throughout Tamil Nadu and rest of the country.
- Open more nursing colleges.
If the above achievements are met successfully, besides kerala, Chennai, Bangalore, one more important center will be there in the south for treatment of patients from abroad and domestic center.
It may be a matter of interest to our readers to mention here that many of the privately run hospitals of Coimbatore greatly supplement the government's efforts in providing excellent medical care o he people at affordable cost. This thus relieves the burden of the government to run government hospitals.
KG Hospital has many distinctions such as:
- KG Hospital performed the country's Awake Heart Surgery.
- KG Hospital introduced Capsule Endoscopy for the first time in India.
- KG Hospital has saved thousands of people's lives involved in accidents by providing prompt emergency medical attention with its ambulances, including a Responder 2000.
- KG Hospital has stationed ambulances at various strategic locations of Coimbatore to help accident victims.
- Performed two multi organ cadaver transplants successfully.
- Performed 85,000 free cataract eye surgeries in its Eye Hospital.
- Performed over 100 free heart surgeries for the poor.
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