VITAL GLOBE HEALTH - COIMBATORE, TAMILNADU

VITAL GLOBE HEALTH

COIMBATORE, TAMILNADU

Medical tourism is a form of Health Tourism commonly referring to the travel of people to another country for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment in that country. Traditionally, people would travel from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for medical treatment that was unavailable in their own communities.

Coimbatore, also known as Kovai is a major city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the second largest city and urban agglomeration in the state after Chennai and the sixteenth largest urban agglomeration in India. It is administered by the Coimbatore Municipal Corporation and is the administrative capital of Coimbatore district

Coimbatore lies in South India at 411 metres (1349 ft) above sea level on the banks of the Noyyal river, in south-western Tamil Nadu. It is surrounded by the Western Ghats mountain range to the West and the North, with reserve forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve on the northern side

The eight major tanks and wetland areas of Coimbatore are namely,  Singanallur,  Valankulam,Ukkadam Periyakulam, Selvampathy, Narasampathi, Krishnampathi, Selvachinthamani, and Kumaraswami.Multiple streams drain the waste water from the city

UKKADAM LAKE

CLIMATE

Coimbatore has a pleasant, salubrious climate due to its proximity to thickly forested mountain ranges and the cool breeze blowing through the Palghat gap which makes the consistently hot temperatures pleasant. The mean maximum and minimum temperatures varies between 35 °C (95 °F) and 18 °C (64 °F)

The size of the Coimbatore health care industry has been estimated as Rs.1500 Crore (Rs.150 million) in 2010.There are nearly 750 hospitals in and around Coimbatore with a capacity of 5000 beds.The first health care centre in the city was started in 1909.The city also has many large multi-facility private hospitals like

• PSG Hospitals, 

• Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH), 

• KG Hospital, 

• Coimbatore Kidney Centre, 

• G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital(GKNM), 

• Sri Ramakrishna Hospital, 

• Sheela Hospital, 

• Kongunadu Hospital, 

• Gem Hospital, 

• Ganga Hospital, 

• Aravind Eye Hospital, 

• Sankara Netralaya, 

• Sankara Eye Centre, 

• Lotus Eye Hospital,

PSG Hospitals, A 1400 Bed Multispeciality Tertiary Care Hospital

Largest and Greenest Hospital in Coimbatore

  PSG Hospitals, established by the PSG & Sons Charities, is a symbol of relentless pursuance towards rendering sophisticated high quality care, at an affordable cost, to the sick and needy. Here, we believe in offering comprehensive care under a single roof, setting the best practice standards in health care services, continually improving our performance and exceeding the expectations of patients and their families.

The critical care units are equipped with the state of the art diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic devices. Adopting international guidelines and protocols in the organization and patient care, all the critical care units are staffed with an adequate and well qualified critical care team. The units have round the clock access to Microbiologists, Radiology & laboratory services, Physiotherapy and Dietary services, thus making them comprehensive and unique. Delivering efficient care to the critically ill patients, the units rise up to international standards. A special mention must be made about the medical intensive care units, which includes the intermediate care units also. Together, the complex is a 44 bedded multi speciality critical care area. It is the largest in this region and run by a team of qualified and experienced intensivists.

1. Medical Intensive Care unit

2. Intensive Cardiac Care Unit

3. Intensive Respiratory Care Unit

4. Intermediate Medical Care Unit

5. Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

6. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

7. Cardiothoracic Intensive Therapy Unit

8. Surgical Intensive Care Unit

9. Trauma Ward

The intensive care units are equipped with ventilators, temporary pace making facilities, defibrillators and high quality monitoring equipment. Facilites for dialysing the patients have been provided. All intensive care units are managed by fully trained and experienced intensivists and senior physicians, ably supported by anaesthetists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, neurologists, nephrologists, gastroenterologists. With a well structured team work, the best care is always ensured to the patients. Emergencies ranging from acute myocardial infarction, stroke and poisoning to any kind of situation requiring emergency medical management are treated with a very good success rate.