Mandira Medical Hospital in Madurai - NRI Doctors from US to Madurai

A team of non-resident Indian doctors from the US and Canada has embarked on an ambitious medical college project to ramp up medical education in India.

Christened Mandira Institute of Medical Sciences, the Rs 300-crore project will be coming up along Madurai-Rajapalayam national highway near Tirumangalam in Madurai.

The project director Dr P. Madhu, a paediatrician who has moved to Madurai from U.S., said a 300-bedded state-of-the-art multi-specialty hospital would start functioning from November next year while the medical college would be opened in August 2014.

An initiative of NRI doctors from various fields of medicine, he said nine of them from the U.S. and one from Canada, all from various fields of medicine, have joined hands to promote the project.

The uniqueness of the project is that it would be the first corporatised medical institute in the country and it would have many firsts including a Smart MD System, City of Medicine and Virtual Dissection Technology.

Dr Madhu said they were working with two U.S.-based companies to introduce advanced technology such as virtual cadaver dissection technology in medical education.

Madurai has been chosen after an exhaustive survey which revealed that there was a need both socially and market-wise.

Though Tamil Nadu fared better in medical education and health care in comparison with other states, there was still inequity within the state.

While Chennai has 13 medical colleges including 10 private institutions, Madurai has only one medical college and that too run by the government, he reasoned.

Madurai being a temple city, the name Mandira was chosen as it meant Temple in Sanskrit, he said adding that the institute would prove to be a real temple of medical learning.

Dr Madhu said 30 acres have been acquired for the project and acquisition of more lands was in progress though according to Medical Council of India 20 acres were sufficient to start a college.

He also assured that the students would not be fleeced and only the tuition and clinical training fee as per rules and regulations would be collected from them while health care would be provided at subsidised cost.

The hospital would be expanded from 300 beds to 700 beds in the next stage, Dr Madhu said.

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Aravind Eye Hospital - Speciality Business Model - World needs to learn

Mazumdar-Shaw Cancer Center is doing is similar to the Madurai-based Aravind Eye Hospital.

Deceased management guru CK Prahalad had trumpeted how the Aravind Eye Hospital had created a new hospital business model. Aravind’s founders use a tiered pricing structure that charges wealthier patients more for fancy meals or air-conditioned rooms, letting the firm cross-subsidise free care for the poorest. Aravind rotates its staff at its five hospitals to deal with both paying and non-paying patients so there is no difference in quality.

Apollo Hospitals to open Medical College in Madurai, Chennai and Hyderabad

The Apollo Hospitals group has also been planning to set up three medical colleges at Chennai, Hyderabad and Madurai as a part of its expansion plans in medical education venture and expects the first of the three colleges to start functioning within the next two years.

The healthcare chain is already running 11 nursing and hospital management colleges.

Apollo Hospitals has been in talks with Khazanah for healthcare education in the country. Khazanah holds nearly 12 per cent stake in Apollo Hospitals.

The healthcare chain also has 1,200 pharmacies and 54 hospitals with a capacity of over 8,500 beds besides over 100 diagnostic clinics across the country.

Madurai AIIMS like Hospital Latest News Update - Agreement being signed in Chennai

Here is a great news back again about MADURAI AIIMS like Hospital!!!

As you know this is a Rs.150 crores project to be implemented in Madurai, in a locality called Thoppur, Madurai. We have been talking about the "AIIMS in Madurai" for quite sometime. The latest news is that tomorrow an agreement is being signed in Chennai for the works to be started.

Already by May 31st, Madurai Medical College Head, Builders and Architects met in Madurai and had a discussion.

Tomorrow, Health Department, Madurai Medical College group and architects are meeting and signing for the payment and work to began as soon as possible.

It is said that Rs.125 crores will be provided by Central Government and rest of the Rs.25 crores out of Rs.150 crores will be provided by State Government for the AIIMS project to began.

Good Luck Madurai!!!

Madurai Meenakshi Mission Hospital expands to Tanjore also

Meenakshi Mission Hospital & Research Centre (MMHRC) is at the verge of completion of 20 years, is now the largest Multi-specialty hospital in South Tamil Nadu with 650-beds and 25 major specialities.

Meenakshi Mission Hospital & Research Centre (MMHRC) was a dream come true for Dr N Sethuraman, its Founder Chairman. The hospital kicked off with 100 beds in 1990 solely relying on its flagship department - the Urology department - and few other specialities. The hospital, at the verge of completion of 20 years, is now the largest Multi-specialty hospital in South Tamil Nadu with 650-beds and 25 major specialities.

So far the hospital had been a Madurai based hospital and the hospital has plans for expansion to Tanjore with a 250 bed facility also.

On a side note, there are TV advertisements for the hospital, that shows the corporate efforts on its marketing side. Good Job MMHRC!

Vadamalayan Hospital - Medical Tourism, Madurai

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I recently visited Vadamalayan Hospital in Madurai, for my mother. Lot of things are taken care in the hospital related to cardiology especially. Inside, it looks like as if I am inside a very big hospital like Government Rajaji Hospital. Patients are very well taken care and it is expensive for sure for local people, however people from outside the country or much bigger cities would find it cheaper for the amount of treatment that is made.

Special doctors are available in this Madurai hospital. Anyway, here are some details about their Medical Tourism package in Madurai by the hospital.

Medical tourism is a term initially coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of traveling across international borders to obtain health care.

MEDICAL TOURISM-Skilled medical professionals, infrastructure and technology on par with international standards, less waiting period, competitive medical costs and above all the hospitality exuding warmth and comfort are the major factors promoting medical tourism in India.

Vadamalayan Hospitals with all the above said factors in place is a right destination for people looking for medical treatment in India.

Right from planning your trip to the day you return home after the medical treatment,
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The focus is on the following three specialties:

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They also arrange for Packaged Tours:

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* Hill Station-Kodaikanal
* Pilgrimage
o World Famous Meenakshmi Amman Temple
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