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 The
Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettair Charitable and Educational Trust is
launching a Chettinad Health City (CHC) along the IT Corridor at
Kelambakkam at a cost of Rs 250 crore in the first phase. The
second and third phase would be ready in 2009 at a cost of
another Rs 250 crore.
The CHC is being inaugurated on November 15, 2007, by Chief
Minister M Karunanidhi at Kelambakkam. Among others who will
participate in the function are Tamil Nadu Health Minister M R K
Panneerselvam, Fred Kaplan, Acting Consul General and Public
Affairs Officer, US Consulate General, Chennai, and M A M
Ramaswamy, managing trustee of the trust.
 The
health city, spread across a campus of 100 acres, would be an
internationally recognised location of choice for quality
healthcare and an integrated centre of excellence for clinical
and wellness services, medical education and research, health IT
and allied health industries.
The campus will have the Institute of
Hospital Administration and the Institute of Medical Informatics
among others.
 The
hospital will have 52 specialities, 600 beds (with a potential
for 1,000 beds), multiple centres of excellence, a hotel, short-
and long-term rehabilitation.
The CHC shall be a tertiary referral
hospital, with the Institute for Cardiovascular Disease,
Robotic-assisted minimally invasive heart surgery, surgery for
heart failure, renal transport medicine, orthopaedic centre,
mother and child care, emergency and trauma centre, dental
surgery and assisted fertilisation.
R Rangaraj
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