COIMBATORE: Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital will set up a 300-bed facility in Chennai, said its chairman Dr Nalla G Palaniswami on Sunday.
The Rs 300-crore hospital will come on a three-acre land at Sholinganallur in Chennai, and it would be ready by end of 2016, Palaniswami said while speaking on the occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations of KMCH.
"We also plan to set up smaller hospitals at Sulur, Salem, Mettupalayam, Karur and Palakkad (in Kerala)," he said. "Each of them will have 100 to 120 beds."
"The hospital which began to function here with just 200 beds on June 24, 1990, has now grown to a 1,000 bed super speciality facility," he said.
Kerala Governor and former Supreme Court chief justice P Sathasivam was the chief guest at the event. Justice Sathasivam asked gynaecologists, genetic specialists and scan specialists to stick to the Indian law of not using advanced facilities for determination of sex of the unborn fetus. "I would like to again remind doctors about the provisions of the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act 1994 which prohibits the determination of sex of the unborn fetus or disclosing it to the parents," he said.
He also advised doctors not to misuse their right of being the only competent authority to issue the disability certificate to disabled people.
"I would also like to remind you about the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, which allows only doctors to issue a disability certificate. So they should be careful about the information they disclose on the certificate," he added.
The Rs 300-crore hospital will come on a three-acre land at Sholinganallur in Chennai, and it would be ready by end of 2016, Palaniswami said while speaking on the occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations of KMCH.
"We also plan to set up smaller hospitals at Sulur, Salem, Mettupalayam, Karur and Palakkad (in Kerala)," he said. "Each of them will have 100 to 120 beds."
"The hospital which began to function here with just 200 beds on June 24, 1990, has now grown to a 1,000 bed super speciality facility," he said.
Kerala Governor and former Supreme Court chief justice P Sathasivam was the chief guest at the event. Justice Sathasivam asked gynaecologists, genetic specialists and scan specialists to stick to the Indian law of not using advanced facilities for determination of sex of the unborn fetus. "I would like to again remind doctors about the provisions of the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act 1994 which prohibits the determination of sex of the unborn fetus or disclosing it to the parents," he said.
He also advised doctors not to misuse their right of being the only competent authority to issue the disability certificate to disabled people.
"I would also like to remind you about the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, which allows only doctors to issue a disability certificate. So they should be careful about the information they disclose on the certificate," he added.
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