The Hindu Business Line : Frontier Mediville will be a hospital and much more

An MoU formalises the implementation of a new scheme for performing heart surgeries in private hospitals for children belonging to families drawing an annual income of Rs 50,000 or less.

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Chennai, Nov 21 The medicity that is coming up on a 360-acre land near Tada, north of Chennai, will feature a 1,000-bed multi-speciality hospital, a sterile biomedical corridor to facilitate manufacture of consumbles, disposables and pharmaceutical products required by laboratories, a nurses and paramedical training centre, a vendors park for producing medical equipment, a herbarium, a yoga and meditation centre — and a few other non-hospital components — a helipad and a railway station, a 5-star hotel and an 18-hole golf course.

Promoted by Dr K.M. Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital, the Frontier Mediville will be the only bio-hospital in the country and one of the only 18 such in the world.

Two MoUs were signed today by Frontier Lifeline. One was with the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) for the commencement of the medical village project and the other with the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services. The second MoU formalises the implementation of a new scheme for performing heart surgeries in private hospitals, for children belonging to families drawing an annual income of Rs 50,000 or less.

Frontier Mediville will also have a ‘Sterile Biomedical Corridor’ to facilitate manufacture of consumables, disposables, pharmaceutical products etc required at the hospital and research laboratories with facilities for research in nano-technology and bio-informatics.

A comprehensive medical university with medical research and experimental surgical facilities incorporating a Regional Centre for Nurse and Paramedic Training (in collaboration with Sir Edward Dunlop Health Foundation, Australia) will offer the best combination of medical expertise and experience to enhance the integrated academic offerings.

The proposed herbarium will house and develop genetically engineered plants and medicinal plants, from which molecules responsible for therapeutic treatment will be extracted.

Other supportive facilities are also planned, such as holistic therapy centre for yoga and mediation; a 5-star hotel; shopping malls with recreational facilities; an indoor stadium; an 18-hole golf course and water sports facilities which can be offered at the extensive water course, which is part of the land procured.

“This Mediville has the explosive potential to develop into a world-class tourism centre within a few short years and will serve as a catalyst in the development of medical science and the health tourism industry, in Tamil Nadu,” says Dr Cherian.

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