Kovai Medical Center & Hospital: An ideal destination for quality healthcare services
Under the aegis of Dr Nalla G Palaniswami, within a span of 25 years, it has become a 1000-bed multidisciplinary super-speciality hospital
Kovai Medical Center & Hospital (KMCH) was started in the year the US, the UK, Australia, the Middle East and people from India under the leadership of Dr Nalla G Palaniswami. Within a span of 25 years, it has emerged from a 150-bed to 1000-bed multidisciplinary super-speciality hospital. KMCH is located on a 20-acre plot in a serene, clean and hygienic atmosphere.
KMCH, Coimbatore is not only a highly reputed multi-disciplinary super specialty hospital in the corporate sector but also a well known land mark in the textile city.
It has the state-of-the-art and ultra modern sophisticated medical equipment and other gadgets to provide world class healthcare services at affordable cost to people belonging to all segments of the society at large.
The hospital has many firsts to its credit. Several challenging, complex and complicated surgeries like heart transplants and liver transplants have been successfully performed in recent times.
With the successful performance of these complicated transplant surgeries, KMCH has joined the elite club of hospitals where these surgeries are being performed. The availability of these facilities at KMCH to perform complicated surgical procedures has come as a boon to the people of Coimbatore and in western Tamil Nadu.
Dr Nalla G Palaniswami, Chairman, KMCH
Dr Nalla G Palaniswami is a doctor, educationist and philanthropist. He did his MBBS and MD from Stanley Medical College, Madras (Chennai today) and served as Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Coimbatore Medical College from 1973 – 1975. He went to the US in 1975 for his higher studies and completed his higher training in Internal Medicine at Cincinnati, Ohio and Wayne State University at Detroit, Michigan from 1975 – 1978. He did his fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan from 1983 – 1985. Between 1978 and 1983, he worked as an internist at St Joseph Hospital, and at Mt Clements, Michigan, US from 1985 – 1990.
The hospital has emerged as a centre of excellence. The credit of bringing Coimbatore, a tier-II city, on par with the metro cities, goes to KMCH which has won many accolades. The standard of treatment provided at KMCH is comparable to the best of hospitals anywhere in the world. It has been accredited by NABH in 2012.
KMCH has established a Comprehensive Cancer Center at a cost of Rs 100 crores. The hospital offers 24-hour end-to-end services in cancer care ranging from prevention to early detection, comprehensive treatment to palliative care — all under one roof.
KMCH has pioneered several techniques like steroid free kidney transplantation, ABO-incompatible kidney transplantation, GDC coiling and clipping for brain aneurysms which save lives, improve patient comfort and minimise side effects.
Super-speciality procedures like open heart surgeries, valve replacements, hip and knee replacements, complex brain surgeries and advanced spine surgeries are done regularly at the hospital.
The hospital has a wide range of modern equipment including the state-of-the-art Varian Trilogy Linear Accelerator, the world’s most advanced PET-CT Scan, 3T MRI, 500 slice Volume CT Scanner, Endo Bronchial Ultra sound (EBUS) etc.
The hospital has over 150 internationally renowned full time specialists and over 250 post graduate medical professionals assisting them. With more than 1500 medical, paramedical, patient relations and administrative staff, the hospital offers total healthcare for patients.
Comprehensive infrastructure, cutting-edge technology, latest hi-tech medical equipment in all specialised branches of healthcare and the committed team of medical experts make KMCH a trusted brand.
The proximity of Kovai Medical Center & Hospital to the Coimbatore international airport makes it the most favoured destination of patients coming from different countries around the globe and also from east and north east frontier states like Meghalaya, Assam, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh besides Sikkim.
To mark the silver jubilee celebrations, the management has drawn up ambitious plans to further expand a green field hospital project in Chennai and a medical college in Coimbatore. It has been awarded the Best Hospital Award – Non Metro South India category by ICICI Lombard Health Insurance and CNBC-TV18.
KMCRET – Dr NGP Group of educational institutions
The Kovai Medical Center Research and Educational Trust (KMCRET) was established in 1990. The Trust was envisioned by the trustees with the single-minded objective of imparting education that is truly a class apart. Today, that vision has culminated into a world-class organisation of repute, rendering education to students from diverse cross-cultural backgrounds. Having grown from strength to strength, the Trust now has the following educational institutions within its fold:
- KMCH College of Nursing
- KMCH College of Physiotherapy
- KMCH College of Pharmacy
- KMCH College of Occupational Therapy
- KMCH Institute of Health & Hospital Administration
- Dr NGP Arts and Science College
- Dr NGP Institute of Technology
- Dr NGP College of Education
- Dr NGP Teacher Training Institute
- The NGP School (CBSE Curriculum)
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