Billroth Hospitals
Billroth Hospitals
Geography
LocationChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates13°24′N 80°08′E / 13.4°N 80.13°E / 13.4; 80.13 (Billroth Hospital)
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds600
History
Opened1990
Links
Websitewww.billrothhospitals.com

Billroth Hospitals is a hospital chain which is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by Dr. V. Jeganathan on 30 November 1990.[1] Billroth Hospital has its branches in Shenoy Nagar, R A Puram, and Tiruvallur.

Founder

V Jeganathan was born on the 19 December 1953, and he died on the 17 May 2007. He died from a heart attack. As well as being the founder, and director of Billroth Hospitals he was also a well known Surgical Gastroenterologists, Laser, and Laparoscopic Surgeon.[2]

Departments

  • Institute of Chest Medicine
  • Institute of Cardiology
  • Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • Institute of Ophthalmology
  • Institute of Plastic Surgery
  • Institute of Endocrinology
  • Institute of Dental Sciences
  • Institute of Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery
  • Department of Orthopaedics
  • Institute of Dermatology
  • General Surgery
  • General Medicine
  • Institute of Podiatric
  • Institute of Radiology
  • Institute of Paediatric
  • Institute of Oncology
  • Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Institute of Neuro Surgery
  • Institute of Nuclear Medicine
  • Institute of Neurology
  • Institute of IVF
  • Institute of Gastroenterology
  • Institute of ENT
  • Institute of Urology & Nephrology

Home Care

  • Home Care
  • Ambulance Services
  • Pharmacy Services
  • Lab Collection Services
  • Physiotherapy Services
  • Nursing Services

Facilities

  • Ambulance & Emergency Services
  • Critical Care Unit
  • Diagnostic Services such as Dual Source CT[3] and several Others.
  • Dialysis
  • Endoscopy[4]
  • Pharmacy Services

Achievements

  • Fast Track Cardiac Surgery.
    • In this 4-day fast track surgery, Day 1 is operation, Day 2 is ICU mobilization, Day 3 is Ward care and Day 4 is the discharge of the patient.[5]
  • Bloodless Heart Surgery was performed by a team of doctors under the Chief Cardiac surgeon Dr. S Thiagarajamurthy
    • Surgery was performed on a patient who underwent an aortic valve replacement procedure and coronary artery bypass surgery who refused a blood transfusion.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Where care comes First". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 11 April 2008.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Jeganathan dead". The Hindu. 18 May 2007. Archived from the original on 20 May 2007.
  3. ↑ "Dual Source CT Scanner installed at Billroth". The Hindu. 8 August 2010.
  4. ↑ "Endoscopy at Billroth Hospitals". Billroth Hospitals.
  5. ↑ "Billroth Hospitals goes on fast track in performing heart surgery". The Hindu. 19 March 2009.
  6. ↑ "Bloodless' heart surgery performed". Indian Express. 8 January 2009.
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