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Southern
Super ‘Speciality’ Stars
South is not just home to celluloid superstars, but it also
boasts of the best of healthcare giants. Express Healthcare
gives you a peek into the top 25 hospitals in the Southern
states to watch out for.
Spectacular
Healthcare Poll
To complement our profiling on top 25 hospitals in the South,
we did an extensive readers' poll to assess their choice of
top hospitals.
Enchanting
Tamil Nadu
Since two decades, healthcare in the South was synonymous
with Tamil Nadu. From the late 1970's and the early 1980's,
the state saw the churning out of big names and the consolidation
of big names like Sankara Nethralaya, Madras Medical Mission,
Christian Medical College, Sri Ramachandran Medical College
(SRMC), which even in today's era of corporatisation is huge
competition for the recent big-wigs in the market.
Tamilnadu
Madras
Medical Mission, Chennai
What started as a cardiac institute with one cath lab, five
beds, and a capital investment of Rs 5 lakh, has today completed
its 25-year sojourn as the Madras Medical Mission (MMM).
Sankara
Nethralaya, Chennai
Divine inspirations are believed to be restricted to fables
and mythological tales. The story goes that Dr SS Badrinath
operated on the Paramacharya (seer) of Kanchi.
Aravind
Eye Hospital, Madurai
Spearheading the revolution of providing quality healthcare
to the needy, Aravind Eye Hospital (AEH), Madurai, has won
as many accolades from management gurus for its effective
business model, as from its millions of patients.
Apollo
Hospitals, Chennai
Touching Lives' is the tag line attached to the first corporate
hospital established in India. It was an attempt at providing
specialised health service in the cardiac sector of medicine
that brought about the rise of the Apollo Hospitals.
MIOT,
Chennai
Located in Manapakkam, Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and
Traumatology (MIOT) Hospital, Chennai is a leader in the field
of orthopaedics.
Sri
Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai
Sprawling over 175 acres on the Chennai-Bangalore highway,
the 20-year-old Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research
Institute (SRMC), has a charm of its own.
Kovai
Medical Centre and Hospital, Coimbatore
The inception of Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital (KMCH)
gave impetus to the healthcare scenario in Coimbatore which
is otherwise famous as an engineering city of India.
KG
Hospital, Coimbatore
Coimbatore, the city known for its beautiful temples is as
well recognised for its good quality healthcare facilities.
KG Hospital, a super speciality hospital, is a dazzling example.
Christian
Medical College, Vellore
For Vellore-based Christian Medical College (CMC), innovative
methods have been a reason for establishing and creating a
name with innumerable firsts to its credit and providing surgeries
at a subsidised cost to its large middle-class clientele.
Meenakshi
Mission Hospital & Research Centre, Madurai
What started with 100 beds and 20 doctors in 1990 has become
one of the largest hospitals in Tamil Nadu with 600 beds and
210 doctors.
Karnataka
Karnataka
‘K’alling
For a state that was the epicenter of the IT revolution, and
then got glorified as the biotech hub of the country, a turnaround
in healthcare would be just another feather in its cap. And
the healthcare hubs to watch out for are Bangalore, Belgaum
and Mysore.
Narayana
Hrudayalaya, Bangalore
Few years ago, everyone spoke of making healthcare in India
match up to global standards, and affordable at the same time.
MS
Ramaiah Hospital, Bangalore
Stories of drastic turnarounds, though common in business,
still manage to interest people as much as ever. MS Ramaiah
(MSR) Hospital boasts of a similar history.
Manipal
Hospital, Bangalore
Any talk about the best hospitals is incomplete without the
mention of Manipal Hospital, Bangalore.
Sagar
Apollo Hospital, Bangalore
I refuse to call ours a sector Hospital. We have always been
a multi-speciality Hospital and will continue to be one,"
asserts Dr Prem Chandra Sagar, Vice Chairman, Sagar Apollo
Hospital.
HOSMAT
Hospital, Bangalore
I saw the writing on the wall back then itself that India
is the place to be," says Founder Dr Thomas Chandy, who
quit his fairly long and successful stint in the US as a medical
practitioner, to return to his hometown and set up a hospital
that would become one of the leaders among its kind. We are
talking about the HOSMAT Hospital, the first super-speciality
Hospital in Bangalore.
Kasturba
Hospital, Manipal
Inaugurated on May 7, 1961 with only 150 beds by former President
N Sanjeeva Reddy, Kasturba Hospital (KH), Manipal today with
a capacity of 1,475 beds has emerged as a premier healthcare
institution providing quality tertiary care.
Andhra Pradesh
Appealing
Andhra Pradesh
The state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) has made a sizeable contribution
to the healthcare scenario in India with advanced therapeutic
options, good patient care, innovative solutions for health,
advanced information technology systems and well-developed
insurance plans.
Care
Hospital, Banjara Hills
The Care Group acquired a 5-star hotel premises at Banjara
Hills, Hyderabad in 2001 and converted it into 325-bed multi-speciality
Hospital over a period of three years.
Apollo
Hospitals, Hyderabad
Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad started its operations in 1989
as the first corporate hospital in AP. The revenue in the
first year of operations in 1989-90 was about Rs 46.7 million
and in 2006-07 has risen to Rs 1,586 million.
Yashoda
Hospital, Secunderabad
The Group has certainly worked its way up from a small clinic
in Somajiguda in Hyderabad in 1989, to a 1,000-plus bed facility,
with three set-ups at Secunderabad, Malakpet and Somajiguda,
and a nursing school and college attached to each Hospital.
LV
Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
The idea of a not-for-profit eye centre was the seed for LV
Prasad Eye Institute's (LVPEI’s) start. Dr GN Rao, the
founder, thought of starting this Institute in 1982.
Global
Hospitals, Hyderabad
Founded in the year 1998, Global Hospitals, Hyderabad is the
brainchild of renowned surgical gastroenterologist Dr K Ravindranath.
A super-speciality corporate Hospital of 250-bed strength,
it focuses on multi-organ transplantation and specialities
like gastroenterology, cardiology, nephrology and urology.
Kerala
God’s
Own Healthy Country
Think tourism and Kerala surfaces and now think 'medical tourism'
and you are bound to think about Kerala again! Not surprising
as it is the only State in the country with 100 per cent literacy
rate. It is often known as the 'third world's' longest-lived,
healthiest, most gender-equitable, and most literate regions.
Malabar
Institute of Medical Sciences, Calicut
Situated in the heart of Calicut, the Malabar Institute of
Medical Sciences (MIMS) has achieved the rare distinction
of becoming the first multi-speciality hospital to receive
NABH accreditation in Kerala.
KIMS,
Thiruvananthapuram
Situated in Thiruvananthapuram, the Kerala Institute of Medical
Sciences (KIMS) is a 450-bed multi-speciality hospital that
is becoming a hugely popular local station for global medical
tourists.
Amrita
Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi is renowned
for offering sophisticated and compassionate care in a serene
and beautiful ambience.
Lakeshore
Hospital, Kochi
Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi is the result of the dreams of three
ambitious Swiss NRIs. When it started in 2000, with 150 beds,
the hospital aimed at bringing healthcare of international
standards to the state and the market just proved to be perfect
that time.
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