Hospitals

Chennai: Kauvery Hospital, a leading multi-specialty and tertiary care hospital chain, has announced ‘Project Thalirgal’, a new initiative in asscoiation with Rotary Club of Madras North and Government of Tamil Nadu to provide no cost corrective surgeries for treating congenital abnormalities in the Spine and Brain for babies. Project Thalirgal …

Liver disease is regularly associated with excessive alcohol use, but knowledge of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is relatively less known. If undiagnosed and untreated, it may ultimately lead to cirrhosis of the liver. Liver diseases are largely silent without causing any signs or symptoms in the patient. The damage …

Meenakshi Mission Hospital & Research Centre (MMHRC), the biggest hospital in South Tamil Nadu with 1,000 beds, organized a month-long pan-India car rally for spreading awareness about childhood cancer. This first-of-its-kind mass connect initiative for the disease covered 15 states of India, travelling more than 10,000 kilometers. The rally, that …

The peer pressure, often as an effect of expectations, many times takes away the childhood out of children these days and the parents as well as the teachers are responsible for it too. Parents usually get so carried away by the societal ways that they tend to overlook their child …

Chennai, 2019 :  A team of doctors at Fortis Malar Hospital successfully performed a successful complex Revision Total Hip Replacement surgery on a 76-year-old patient recently. The patient – Ms. Pankajavalli – developed periprosthetic hip fracture a few weeks after undergoing a partial hip replacement surgery at another private hospital in the …

Chennai, 2019: Gleneagles Global Health City inaugurates the latest Fatty Liver clinic in Chennai today to address the rising issues of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases affecting a majority of the young population. The clinic was inaugurated in the esteemed presence of actor and director K Bhagyaraj and Dr K Ravindranath, Chairman, Gleneagles Global Hospitals.  The clinic will be led by an expert team …

Surgical Avenue, one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of hospital furniture in the city, has donated 100 multi-speciality beds to Voluntary Healthcare Services (VHS) and launched a blood donation drive on Sunday. Indian cricketer Murali Vijay was the chief guest of the event. Round Table 123 and Rotary Club of …

Chennai, April 2019: GEM Hospital, India’s premier Gastroenterology, laparoscopic and Robotic surgery hospital, which celebrates silver jubilee year of laparoscopic hernia surgery, will conduct “GEM Hernia Awareness Week” in the city till 28th April 2019 at GEM Hospital Chennai located at MGR Road, Perungudi. This awareness exhibition is open for …

Chennai: A team of expert neonatologists, led by Dr. Rahul Yadav at Rainbow Children’s Hospital today showcased the successful treatment of two babies who were born during second trimester, at 23-24 weeks. The babies were born to two women (Mrs. DuniyaKhandoker and Mrs.Fathima) from Bangladesh. The babies were born elsewhere …

Chennai, April 2019: A Twenty Two-year-old young man from Saudi Arabia who was suffering from large bone tumour, Osteosarcoma, arising from the lower end of his left thigh bone (Femur) underwent seven-hour “limb-sparing” surgery at Gleneagles Global Health City performed by Dr Rajasundaram Director, Institute of Oncology. Surgery has now …