Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital will set up a 300-bed facility in Chennai, said its chairman Dr Nalla G Palaniswami

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.