Hospitals

• Delays in screening and treatment for cataract, disruption in eye care services and cataract surgeries at hospitals – besides, uncontrolled blood pressure, hypertension & diabetes during Covid years are the main reasons for the spikeChennai, 24 June 2022: “There has been over a fivefold increase in the number of …

A 9-year-old Girl Ms. Selvi from the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh had an unsightly hump on her back which was gradually increasing in curvature since a very young age, and she was unable to move around freely. The child was brought to Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals, Chetpet for medical attention by …

Chennai, 21st June 2022: Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispeciality healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, today announced the successful treatment of an 86-year-old woman with breast cancer 27 years after remission.  The woman was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time in her life after 27 years.Though this may seem alarming that …

Chennai, 18th June 2022:  Having performed over 500+ paediatric liver transplantations in Chennai, Prof Rela and team is recognised as South Asia’s largest Paediatric liver transplant programme. To commemorate this milestone, eminent guests such as the Hon’ble Minister Thiru Duraimurugan Minister for Water Resources, Hon’ble Minister Thiru MA, Subramanian, Minister for Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Tamil …

Chennai, June 10th, 2022: Dr. Arun Kalyanasundaram an eminent Interventional cardiologist and Director of Promed Hospital, Chennai, specializing in complex Coronary Interventions and Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) is the only Indian doctor who performed a complex PCI procedure on a 65-year-old patient at CTO Live Aid 2022 held on June 9th, 2022, that …

MV Hospital for Diabetes The Prof M Viswanathan Honour Award was presented to Dr. Asha Frederick State TB officer Tamilnadu on June 9 by the Prof. M. Viswanathan Diabetes Research Centre and MV Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram, Chennai. Speaking on the occasion Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, Head and Chief Diabetologist, said …

Chennai: MGM Healthcare today hosted an awareness programme on the Prevention of Falls among the elderly. Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Honourable Thiru Ma Subramanian, was the Guest of Honour and Director of the hospital Dr. Prashanth Rajagopalan, along with   Dr Govindaraj AB, Director, and Senior Consultant of Orthopaedics inaugurated an exclusive …

For the first time, a surgeon from South India Dr. Gunaseelan Rajan has become the President of the Asian Association of Oral & Maxillofacial surgeons (AAOMS). AAOMS is the largest professional society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons in Asia and is headquartered in Japan. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery is a …

Chennai, May, 31, 2022: A 95-year-old man who suffered an acute heart-attack, successfully underwent angioplasty and stenting followed by the implantation of a leadless pacemaker at Fortis Malar Hospital. The patient was presented at Fortis Malar with chest discomfort, hypertension, shortness of breath and left-shoulder pain for several hours. The patient’s heart rate and blood pressure had variations during …

Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, today announced the successful treatment of 82-year-old man with multiple heart valve disease. The procedure which is a first of its kind in the country involved two ‘valve in valve’ replacement using a transcatheter and a pacemaker was also implanted through transcatheter in the …