NE HEALTH BUREAU
CHENNAI, JAN 7
PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore’s leading multi-specialty hospitals, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with MGM Healthcare, a super-specialty, quaternary care hospital in Chennai on Thursday (Jan 7, 2021).
The MoU establishes a Comprehensive Centre of Excellence for Heart & Lung Transplantation and Heart Failure Clinic at PSG Hospitals to support patients with very complex and chronic heart and lung ailments.
PSG is one of the leading hospitals in this part of the region to perform various transplantations like kidney, liver and dual lung transplantations successfully.
The transplantation team comprises of dedicated surgeons, anaesthetists and intensivists who are supported by perfusionists, technicians and nurses. MGM Healthcare will fortify the transplantation of heart-lung and heart failure management in this region.
“MGM Healthcare is one of the leading hospitals for heart-lung transplant and heart failure management across the country today. This MoU with PSG Hospitals will further our collective cause of providing better healthcare facilities in a country that has a high mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease,” said Dr Prashanth Rajagopalan, Director, MGM Healthcare.
Speaking about the partnership, Dr KR Balakrishnan, Director, Institute of Heart & Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare, said, “Our clinical team at MGM Healthcare will be working closely with the clinical team at PSG Hospitals to establish the heart and lung transplant and heart failure management programmes, and provide treatment options for patients in both institutions. We provide advanced medical care, especially for those with serious and critical cardiac and pulmonary-related conditions who are unable to cope up with normal life, even with maximum possible medical treatment.”
As a result of this MoU, a trained team of cardiologists, pulmonologists, transplant surgeons, dedicated anaesthetists and intensivists ably supported by a team of technicians, perfusionists and nurses, will deliver world-class care at Coimbatore.
MGM Healthcare team – Dr KR Balakrishnan, Chairman – Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Director – Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM Healthcare; Dr Suresh Rao KG, Co-Director – Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, MGM; Dr Prashanth Rajagopalan, Director, MGM Healthcare and Harish Manian, CEO, MGM Healthcare
PSG Hospitals team – Sri L Gopalakrishnan, Managing Trustee, PSG Institutions; Dr JS Bhuvaneswaran, Director, PSG Super Speciality Hospitals; Dr S Ramalingam, Dean, PSG IMSR Hospitals and Dr PR Murugesan, Senior Consultant – Cardiothoracic Surgery, PSG Super Speciality Hospitals.
