Hospital to treat digestive diseases

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, OCT. 3. A hospital dedicated for treating digestive diseases using state-of-the-art equipment, backed by a team of specialists in gastroenterology, endoscopy, laproscopy and radiology, will be inaugurated here on October 7.

MedIndia Digestive Diseases Hospitals at Nungambakkam, according to its chairman, Dr. T. S. Chandrasekar, is a Rs.3- crore venture offering cost-effective international class treatment. Some of the equipment are not available in many places in the country.

The hospital has an `Esophageal lab' that can evaluate foodpipe problems and non-cardiac chest pains; a Video Enterscope for evaluate obscure small intestinal bleeding, bowel tumors and Endo Ultrasonography that incorporates both endoscopy and ultrasound at its tip to assess the spread of Esophageal /gastric/rectal tumours (better than CT scan or MRI).

The hospital, which is a branch of Gastro-enterology and Endoscopy Centre, Coimbatore, will have an intensive care unit for liver, pancreas and other digestive diseases, and tie-ups with international experts. To benefit the public ``we will have a Jaundice Information Centre as a hotline service and a digestive diseases public awareness cell that can provide free information''.

To mark the inauguration, MedIndia planned to hold free camps for checking for `digestive diseases' and `Hepatitis B' detection on October 20 and 21.

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