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Hospitals in India
For last few years India has been depicting its proficiency in medical treatment packages. The major USP of medical tourism in India is its cutthroat price of the treatment packages.The visitors can get world class treatment services at their expediency at cost which is 30% to 70% less as weighed against the cost of treatment in USA or Thailand.
The medical packages range from health check up packages to posh heart surgery packages.
Moreover, the uses of radioactive isotopes and scanning through Gamma camera have added matchless features to Medical Tourism in India. Some of the leading hospitals and their forte areas are discussed below.
Some of the topmost hospitals in India are given below:-
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
- Apollo Hospital
- B.M.Birla Heart Research Centre
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre
- Indraprastha Medical Corporation
- Christian Medical College
- Apollo Cancer Hospital
- Institute Cardiovascular Diseases
- PD Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Reserch Centre
Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
The Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore occupies a prominent placeamong medical institutions in India and in the world as a 1,700-bed multicampus complex that is a vital, diverse, interdenominational community. CMCH Vellore affirms a shared commitment to healing of the total person. Tertiary legvel care services include organ transplants, advanced cardiothoracic and neurological care.
The main hospital campus in Vellore town, the Mental Health Center and Rehabilitation Center in the college campus, the base hospitals at CHAD and RUHSA and the Ida Scudder Ward and Eye Hospital in the Schell Campus, provide over 1,700 beds. The services range from internal medicine and child health to neurology and neurosurgery, organ transplanation, advanced cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery.
Apollo Cancer Hospital, Chennai
Apollo Cancer Hospital, Chennai is the first hospital in the country to be awarded the ISO 9002 certificate. Special surgeons for individual organs supported by reconstructive and plastic surgeons of repute provide treatment for head and neck cancer, breast cancer and malignancies. Facilities offered include tele-therapy, which includes simulation work stations to ensure high precision and safety during treatment at the 18 MV linear accelerator or telecobalt machines, brachy therapy and 3-D planning systems.
The programme objective of Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai is two fold –
- To spread awareness on Cancer and cancer screening
- To provide psychological and emotional support for diagnosed cancer patients
Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Chennai
Sponsored by the Madras Medical Mission, the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Chennai has gained a reputation for being one of the most advanced centers in the world.
The Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases of Madras Medical Mission is a major specialized medical center that provides the latest medical facilities in the fields of cardiology and cardiac surgery in India. Located in the urban locale of Madras (Chennai), South India, this institution is accessible to the tourist attractions of Madras, Mysore, Bangalore, Pondicherry, and Kerala.
Facilities
This esteemed institute has hundreds of beds for inpatients, excellent surgical units and laboratories, cryopreservation lab for homograft valve preservation, heart laser unit. It also provides the most sophisticated instruments in investigative techniques, which include electrocardiography, chest radiography, echocardiography, color-flow Doppler, nuclear cardiology, cardiac catheterization, angiography and MRI. It is a brand new building with outstanding medical library and extensive computer facilities. The clinical material is voluminous, challenging and diverse for most basic research pertaining to cardiology.
On-going Research Projects / Publications
Considering its reputation in Asia, this institute has been recognized by the Indian Government for postdoctoral training in cardiology and cardiothorasic surgery for National Board Examination. The Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), UK provided accreditation to this institution for its FRCS higher and basic examinations, while its extraordinary faculty trains graduate students in cardiac surgery, cardiac medicine, pathology and microbiology for Ph.D. degree from Dr. M.G.R. Medical University of Chennai, M.Phil/Ph.D. in cardiac sciences for BITS, Pilani. Moreover, this institution has research and clinical links with centers in USA, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In USA, MMM has a working relationship with Cedar-Sinai Medical Center (California), Heart Institute (Oregon), and Heart Institute for Children (Illinois).
PD Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Reserch Centre, Mumbai
An ultramodern hospital on the busiest artery in Central Mumbai, PD Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre was established by the Hinduja Foundation in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. The fulfillment of Founder Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja's dream, the 351-bed hospital offers comprehensive services covering the gamut from diagnosis and investigation to therapy, surgery and post-operative care. As a tertiary care hospital, the services offered are comprehensive covering investigation & diagnosis to therapy, surgery & post-operative care.
The inpatient services are complemented with a day centre, out-patient facilities and an exclusive center for health check for executives. Hinduja Hospital was the first multi disciplinary tertiary care hospital to have been awarded the prestigious ISO 9002 Certification from KEMA of Netherlands for Quality Management System.
The Hinduja Foundation's quest for up gradation of healthcare facilities in India has prompted it to join hands with the 32,000 member American Association of Physicians of Indian origin (AAPI), with the objective of bringing to India well qualified and experienced doctors from USA to upgrade the expertise of HNH doctors, provide quality medical care and continuing medical education; to ensure co-operation in research and pursue joint projects in the fields of: Coronary artery disease, Osteoporosis and Asthma; and to provide consultancy, technology and treatment support to AAPI dispensaries in India on case to case basis
Cutting Edge Technology in Diagnostics
Hinduja Hospital has a fully automated Laboratory Medicine Department. The Laboratory offers over 500 different types of tests some of, which are exclusive. It also offers an emergency / Stat menu of tests with a very short turn around time.
The department participates in International Quality Control programme conducted by the College of American Pathologists, WHO & National Quality Control Programme where it has achieved and maintained a high ranking consistently for a number of years. Imaging forms a key part of the diagnostic facility at the hospital.
Technology UpgradesThe hospital keeps upgrading its technology by acquiring new state-of-the-art diagnostic & therapeutic equipment. Hinduja Hospital was the first in India to acquire the Gamma Knife-gold standard in Radio surgery, a non-invasive neurosurgical tool. The hospital was also the first to acquire the Holmium Laser in the country thus replacing the surgeon's scalpel. The Oncology Services are wholistic & complete with installation of the Linear Accelerator with Multileaf Collimator (MLC) & Micro MLC. The hospital is the first centre in India to have installed the sophisticated state of the art GE-LCA Digital Subtraction Angiography System. In keeping with the quest for continuos improvement in quality & technological advancement, the hospital has recently commissioned the Bone Mineral Densitometer (DEXA), an addition to the Imaging department.