Industry Profile

Healthcare in Chennai is provided by both government-run and private

hospitals. Chennai attracts about 45 percent of health tourists from abroad arriving
in the country and 30 to 40 percent of domestic health tourists. The city has been
termed India's health capital. Multi- and super-specialty hospitals across the city
bring in an estimated 150 international patients every day.Factors behind the
tourists' inflow in the city include low costs, little to no waiting period, and
facilities offered at the speciality hospitals in the city.

History
The medical lineage of the city began with the first hospital of India set up at Fort
St. George on 16 November 1664 by Sir Edward Winter to treat sick soldiers of
the East India Company. The hospital grew, expanded, and moved out of the fort
to its present location in 1772, where it stands today as the Rajiv Gandhi
Government General Hospital, and was opened to Indians in 1842. In 1785,
medical departments were set up in Bengal, Madras, and Bombay presidencies
with 234 surgeons.[5]
Although the Western system of medicine was brought to India by the Portuguese,
the base for a systematised and widespread network of government-run hospitals
began with the hospital in Madras, as the city was known then. Throughout the
colonial era, doctors from Europe and Eurasia trained and practised at the first
hospital. Between 1800 and 1820, about four hospitals were formed in
Madras.[5] In 1835, Madras Medical College was set up, making it one of the oldest
colleges of European medicine in Asia. In 1854, when the British government
agreed to supply medicines and instruments to the growing network of minor
hospitals and dispensaries, government store depots were established in Calcutta,
Madras, Bombay,and Rangoon. In 1900, the Christian Medical
College, Vellore was established, attracting some of the best talents in the United
States. The Madras Public Health Act, the first of its kind in the country, was
passed in 1939.
In the later half of the twentieth century, many prominent institutions began to
appear in the city. The Cancer Institute in Adyar was set up in 1954, and Sankara
Nethralaya was founded in 1976, adding to the city's reputation. Along with the
Government General Hospital they served as renowned centres for diagnosis,
treatment and research for decades. The establishment of the Apollo Hospital in the
city in 1983 marked the advent of corporate hospitals in the country. The city is
where one of the earliest paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) was established in
the 1990s.
Today, Chennai is the hub of medical tourism in the country, an industry that is
expected to grow at an estimated 30% per year, which is expected to become worth
about ₹ 95,000 million by 2015, according to the Associated Chambers of
Commerce and Industry of India.

Healthcare institutes

Surgery block at Stanley Hospital

Government multi-super speciality hospital

The government-aided hospitals in the city include General Hospital, Government
multi-super speciality hospital, Government Kilpauk Hospital, Government
Royapettah Hospital, Government Stanley Hospital, Adyar Cancer Institute, TB
Sanatorium, and National Institute of Siddha. The National Institute of Siddha is
one of the seven apex national-level educational institutions that promote
excellence in Indian system of medicine and Ayurveda.[8] Non-profit hospitals in
the city include the Hindu Mission Hospital. Some of the popular private-run
hospitals in Chennai are Apollo Hospitals, Dr. Kamakshi Memorial
Hospitals, Chettinad Health City, Billroth Hospitals, MIOT Hospital, Global
Health City, SRM Hospital, Vasan Healthcare, Kauvery Hospital, Deepam
Pallavaram Hospital and Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre. The
prime NABH-accredited hospitals includes Chennai Apollo Speciality Hospital, Dr
Mehta Hospitals, Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Global Hospitals & Health City,
Sankara Nethralaya, and Vijaya Medical & Educational Trust.[9] Apollo Hospitals
Group has five hospitals in the city, including a main hospital and a speciality
oncology hospital, with a total bed count of 1,100. The city has about seven
palliative care units. Poonamallee High Road, one of the arterial roads of the city,
has more hospitals than any other roads in the city and is known as the city's 'Med
street'.
As of 2012, the city had an estimated 12,500 hospital beds, of which only half is
used by the city's population with the rest being shared by patients from other
states of the country and foreigners. It is estimated that the number of beds in
multi-specialty hospitals in the private sector in the city is in the range of 5,000
beds, whereas in the public sector it is over 6,000 beds. This works to 2.1 beds per
1,000 population against the national average of less than 1 bed per 1,000
population, making the city better than other cities in the country,
viz., Delhi (1.4), Mumbai (0.8), Kolkata (0.8), Hyderabad (1.5)
and Bangalore (2.1). However, this still does not fulfil World Health
Organization norms of three beds per 1,000 persons.[13] By mid-2012, with the
addition of at least 3,000 beds in four leading hospitals in the city, the private
hospital sector in the city is expected to increase its bed strength by nearly 25
percent.[13]
According to Chennai Corporation sources, there are about 250 registered
laboratories in the city, although there are almost thrice as many unregistered
ones.[15] The city has six units of the state government's co-operative drug stores
across the state known as Kamadhenu co-operative medical stores, where a wide
range of 13,000 important medicines would be sold, including 6,000 medicines
available on any given day. The government is planning to add 10 more stores in
the city.[16]
In May 2011, Corporation of Chennai initiated an online direct health-reporting
system under which all the hospitals in the city are required to provide details of
the patients on a daily basis to the Corporation.

List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Government Govern Park General 2,029[1 The first

1664 8] medical
General ment Town medicine
institution
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Hospital in India

Originally
built as an
Government assembly
multi-super Govern Governme General complex
2014 400
speciality ment nt Estate medicine but later
hospital converted
into a
hospital

Dr. Mohan’s
Diabetes Gopalapur
Private 1991 Diabetes[19]
Specialities am
Centre

Government
Govern Royapetta General
Royapettah 1911 712[18]
ment h medicine
Hospital

Government
Govern Vallalar General 1,271[1
Stanley 1799 8]
ment Nagar medicine
Hospital

Kilpauk Govern General

Medical Kilpauk 1960 515[18]
ment medicine
College
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Hospital

Perambur
Govern Ayanavar General
railway 1928 505
ment am medicine
hospital

Institute of
Obstertrics Obstetrics
& &
Govern
Gynaecology Egmore Gynaecolo 752[18]
ment
Hospital for gy and
Women & Paediatrics
Children

Institute of
Child Health Govern
Egmore 1948 Paediatrics 537[18]
& Hospital ment
for Children

Second
Government largest
Institute of Govern 1,800[1 mental
Kilpauk 1794 Neurology 8]
Mental ment health
Health institute in
India

Government 100[18]
Govern K. K. 1977 General
Peripheral
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Hospital, K. ment Nagar medicine

K. Nagar

Government
Peripheral Govern Tondiarpe General
1979 100[18]
Hospital, ment t medicine
Tondiarpet

Government
Peripheral Govern Anna General
1979 100[18]
Hospital, ment Nagar medicine
Anna Nagar

Regional
Institute of
Ophthalmolo
Govern Ophthalmo
gy and Egmore 1819 478[18]
ment logy
Government
Ophthalmic
Hospital

Government
Institute of Govern K. K.
1979 60[18]
Rehabilitatio ment Nagar
n Medicine

Government Tambara 1920 776[18]

Govern Thoracic
Hospital of m
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Thoracic ment Sanatoriu medicine

Medicine m

Raja Sir
Ramasamy
Govern Royapura
Mudaliar 1880 510[18]
ment m
Lying-In
Hospital

Government
Kasthuribai Govern
Chepauk 695[18]
Gandhi ment
Hospital

Institute of
Thoracic Govern
Chetput 1916
Medicine, ment
Chetput

Thiruvetrees
warar
Hospital for Govern
Otteri
Thoracic ment
Medicine,
Otteri

Tamil Nadu 1953

Govern George
Government
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Dental ment Town

College and
Hospital

Rated by
the World
Health
Adyar Organizati
Cancer Adyar 1954 Oncology 423 on as the
Institute top-
ranking
centre in
the country

First
Apollo Greams corporate
1983
Hospitals Road hospital in
the country

Chettinad Corporat Kelambak

2007 600
Health City e kam

Fortis Malar Corporat

Adyar 161
Hospital e

Hindu Tambara
NGO 1982 220
Mission m
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Hospital

LIMA
(Lifeline Started as
Keyhole
Institute of an
Corporat Surgery
Minimal Kilpauk 1932 100 individual-
e (since
Access) owned
1997)
Keyhole clinic
Surgery

Madras
Mugappai
Medical 1987 207
r
Mission

National
Tambara
Institute of 2005 120
m
Siddha

Sankara
1978
Nethralaya

Sir Ivan
Stedeford Ambattur 1966 212
Hospital

Sri Porur 1985 >1,500

Ramachandr
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

a Medical
College

Sundaram
Anna
Medical 1990
Nagar
Foundation

Pallikaran
Dr.
ai,
Kamakshi Corporat
Velachery 2005 300
Memorial e
& Chenna
Hospitals
i

Performed
more than
Orthopaedi 30,000
MIOT Corporat Manapakk cs and 1000 [2 Joint
1999
Hospital e am Traumatol 0] Replaceme
ogy nt
Surgeries [2
1]

Shenoy
Nagar,
Billroth Corporat
RA Puram 1990 600
Hospitals e
& Tiruvall
ur
List of major hospitals in Chennai

Num
Hospit Establis Chief
Institute Locality ber of Notes
al type hed specialty
beds

Balaji Dental
and Teynampe
1994 25
Craniofacial t
Hospital

Deepam
Pallavara Trauma >135
Pallavaram 1995
m Care to 250
Hospital

Home Healthcare
Home healthcare and Home Nursing are also a growing phenomena in India. India
Home Health Care is one such service provider, based in Chennai & Bangalore
with over 300 nurses.
Medical education
The city has four government medical colleges and one ESI medical college, apart
from private medical colleges. The four government-run colleges include Madras
Medical College, Stanley Medical College, Kilpauk Medical College, and
Omandhurar Government Medical College.[24]

Medical tourism
With people from across the country and abroad preferring to get treated in the
hospitals in Chennai, the city is increasingly becoming a hub of medical tourism.
According to a study by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Chennai attracts
about 40 percent of the country's medical tourists. As of 2013, the city receives up
to 200 foreign patients every day. The Coromandel Express, which plies
between Kolkata and Chennai, is nicknamed 'Ambulance Express' in Howrah since
it regularly ferries a chunk of patients from the eastern region for medical
treatment at hospitals in Chennai. Foreigners, especially those from developing and
underdeveloped countries such
as Nigeria, Kenya, Burundi, Congo, Bangladesh, Oman and Iraq, come to the city
for advanced medical care. About 150 Maldivian patients arrive at the city every
day for medical treatment, which resulted in Maldivian Airlines launching a thrice-
a-week direct flight from Male to Chennai. However, there are no consolidated
statistics about the number of foreign patients that the city receives. Most leading
hospitals, which receive a steady stream of patients from other states of India and
abroad every day, have separate wings for international patients. Sri Ramachandra
Medical Centre receives up to 100 overseas patients a month. Dr.Kamakshi
Memorial Hospital receives 10 to 15 foreign patients in a month. Fortis Malar
Hospital receives 15 to 20 foreign patients a month. Madras Medical
Mission receives 14 foreign medical tourists every month, mainly from East
African nations. Sankara Nethralaya receives nearly 500 overseas patients a
month.[27] MIOT Hospitals receives nearly 300 foreign patients every month.[29]
Special certifications
With more than 75 percent of the medical tourists being from the Middle East,
hospitals in the city are vying for 'halal' certification. On 14 May 2012, the city-
based Global Health City became the first in the country to receive the halal
certification from the Halal Development Authority.[30] Other hospitals in the city
that have applied for the certification include Mehta Hospitals and Lifeline
Hospitals.[30] Halal-friendly medical tourism services include food, prayer hall,
'quiblah' (the direction of Mecca) signs in every room, payer mate, copies
of Quran and appointments of woman physicians for woman patients.[31]
Supportive infrastructure
In January 2010, Aloka Trivitron Medical Technologies Park, the country's first
medical technological park, was inaugurated in the SIPCOT complex
at Irungattukottai in Sriperumbudur.[32] Spread across 25 acres, the medical
technology park, a facility to produce high-tech medical equipment, is designed to
house 10 international medical technology manufacturers, in addition to Trivitron's
own manufacturing units. The range of products to be manufactured at the medical
technology park include ultrasound systems, X-ray machines/C-arm, in-vitro
diagnostic reagents, modular operating theatres, operating room tables and lights,
molecular diagnostic products, hemodialysis products, ECG/cardiac diagnostic
instruments, critical care instruments and implantable medical devices.[33][34]

NGOs and Non-Profits

Chennai has a strong base of healthcare non-profit organisations and non-
government organisations. One such example is the Indian Heart Association,
focused on cardiovascular health prevention.[35]
Other NGO example includes MOHAN Foundation that works for awareness for
cadaver donation since 1997 and creating an organ sharing registry in the state of
Tamil Nadu.[36]

Future projects
In August 2011, the state government decided to convert the much controversial,
half-constructed Assembly-Secretariat complex in the city, built at an
estimated ₹ 10,920 million, into a multi-specialty hospital.[46]
The city-based KM Cherian–promoted Frontier Lifeline has proposed a ₹ 10,000-
million medicity project named Frontier Mediville on 350 acres of land of which
42 acres had received special economic zone (SEZ) status from the central
government in 2009. Located at Elavur village, 40 km from the city centre, the
project will be executed in three phases. The ₹ 1,600-million first phase will
comprise a medical science park in the SEZ zone. It also includes a research and
training centre and an animal laboratory to house clinical research organisations
(CROs). The second will costing ₹ 5,000 million includes a ₹ 1,440-million bio
hospital with 200 beds in the SEZ. The bio hospital is expected to be the first of its
kind in India, designed as tertiary care in all sub-specialties of medicine supported
by modern basic sciences including stem cell technology, tissue
engineering and nanotechnology, which would also focus on integration
of traditional and alternate medicinal technologies such as ayurveda, naturopathy,
and siddha to the services. The second phase also includes another 750-bed
multispeciality general hospital to be developed outside the SEZ.[47]
In 2014, the Indian government decided to establish a regional centre for organ
transplant in Chennai, which would be one of the five regional centres in the
country. The regional centres would collect data and send it to the national registry.
The Chennai centre would cover the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry, and Andaman and
[48]
Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands.
 Company Profile

The MIOT International is a multi-specialty hospital

in Manapakkam, Chennai, India. It is a specialty hospital in the field of joint
replacement surgeries, Interventional Cardiology , orthopaedics and trauma.
Founded by P. V. A. Mohandas, the hospital was established in February 1999 on a
14-acre (5.7 ha) land with German collaboration, with an initial investment
of ₹ 500,000. The hospital has 1000 beds and employs 170 physicians. The
hospital receives nearly 3,500 foreign patients every year, contributing 25 percent
of the hospital's patients. North and East Africa account for a chunk of these
foreign patients.

History
MIOT Hospitals began as an independent entity, specialising in orthopaedics, at
Chennai-based Vijaya Hospital in 1988. It moved to Manapakkam, a suburb of
Chennai, in 1999. Its founder and managing director, P. V. A. Mohandas, is also
chief surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Started as a centre for
orthopaedics, the hospital has become a multi-speciality one dealing with thoracic
and cardiovascular care, cardiology, nephrology, neurosurgery, oncology and
radiation oncology, hip-replacement surgery, knee replacement, accident surgery,
plastic surgery, craniofacial and cosmetic surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics, and so
on.
On 18 May 2012, a heart revive centre was inaugurated at a cost of 300 million,
with a full-fledged Cathlab and an Electro Physiology Laboratory for the treatment
of arrhythmia, or irregular heart beat. In the same year, the hospital started the
MIOT International Centre housing the departments of oncology, radiation
oncology, medical oncology, surgical oncology, liver transplant centre and bone
marrow transplant centre. There are also plans to open a heart transplant centre.
Achievements
First time in India T- Replete Haplo Identical Bone Marrow Transplant
The MIOT Institute of Haematology, Haemato-Oncology & BMT performed the
first T- Replete Haplo Identical Bone Marrow Transplant in India in 2013.
Liver transplant
Emergency Liver Transplant saves a rapidly deteriorating 26-year-old mother with
Jaundice & severely damaged Liver.
The future
The hospital group is investing ₹ 2,800 million on a 600-bed 6-star facility for
cancer treatment named 'MIOT International' under construction near the existing
facility. The 13-floor building will house 14 operation theatres, a bunker, a
sterilisation unit, 500 premium rooms and 100 beds for critical care and is being
constructed by L&T. It will employ about 100 physicians.

Awards and recognition

 Niryat Shree Gold Award 2002 – 2003

 Niryat Shree Gold Award 2009 – 2010
 FIEO Niryat Shree Bronze Trophy 2008 – 2009
 FIEO Southern Region Export Excellence Award 2012 – 2013
 FIEO Southern Region Export Excellence Award 2013 – 2014
 FIEO Southern Region Export Excellence Award 2015 – 2016