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,