K.G. Hospital, Coimbatore

World-standard Health Care has a new destination

Twenty-five years ago in a non-metro center like Coimbatore no one could have heard of endoscopy surgery; no one ever heard of haemo-dialysis; no one heard of renal transplant, leave alone cadaver kidney transplant, there was only one government district hospital, always overcrowded, with a waiting list even for special ward, the private hospital in those days meant only maternity homes and nursing homes who confined themselves treating gynaecological cases or routine surgeries for appendicitis, hernia or cyst in abdomen. Beyond X-ray, one never heard of the word scanning. Ortho-surgeries generally meant only slings, plasters and bandages and prolonged bed-rest in case of emergencies, such as strokes or heart failures, people who can afford generally rushed to Vellore or Chennai and many of them succumbed enroute.

All these have now changed dramatically and phenomenally, thanks to one man with a vision late K. Govindaswamy Naidu, founder of K.G. Hospital in 1974. K.G. Hospital is a 300-bed super speciality hospital delivering quality health care service in Coimbatore, Southern India. It is the fourth in the country to get an ISO 9002 Certification.

Recently the Cardiology Department of the hospital expanded its facility by starting the Invasive Cardiovascular set up at K.G. Heart Centre with the installation of the revolutionary GE OEC 9800 Digital Cardiac Cathlab. In a short span of 10 days, the center has already performed 25 procedures successfully.