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Multi-speciality hospital for women opened near Kochi
Our Bureau
Kochi
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Feb. 21
SUNRISE Hospital, a multi-speciality hospital for women, has started functioning at suburban Kakkanad.
The hospital aims to provide tertiary care in obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics and trauma. This is one of the few hospitals in the country where gynec cancer surgeries are successfully done laparascopically, Dr Hafeez Rahman Padiyath, Chairman of the Hospital, said at a press meet.
Dr Hafeez, who has to his credit of having successfully performed over 25,000 keyhole surgeries at home and abroad, said the hospital has the facilities for round-the-clock trauma care, light speed multi dimensional cardiac CT scanner, colour Doppler ultra sound, paediatric intensive care etc.
Dr Rijo Mathew, who is in charge of the multi dimensional scanning facilities, said the hospital today is India's largest gyenec endoscopy unit and has a high-tech foetal medicine unit with focus on diagnosis of malformations and diseases inside the uterus. The department not only diagnoses but also treats many of these problems intrauterine.
According to Dr Hafeez, studies pointed out that India would become a major health care destination and an additional one million tourists are expected by 2010 through medical tourism.
The Union Tourism Ministry has envisaged several programmes, including overseas campaign, to project the country as an attractive medical tourism destination.
Considering this, he said the hospital has taken special care to provide international class infrastructure and facilities.
The hospital is also in the process of starting an ayurvedic wing focussing on genuine curative part of the treatment, he added.
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