Serving With a Human Touch

It is always said, ‘Dream on, for some day it
comes true’.

Late G Kuppuswamy Naidu, founder of Laxmi Group of Companies, Coimbatore, did see a dream that had a hidden noble cause — setting up a hospital for mother and child care. His dream stands tall today as G Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital (GKNMH), moulded into a tertiary, super specialty 600-bed one, serving the community with science and humanity.
Around 1920s, Coimbatore was a small town with meagre medical facilities, with just one District Head Quarters Hospital. It was then, when Naidu’s stepsister passed away during labour and so did her child, a week later. Greatly moved by this tragic incident, Naidu vowed to provide help to women in labour. He didn’t live to see his dream come true,
but raised enough money to set-up the institute. Thus, on October 29, 1948, the G Kuppuswamy Naidu Charity Trust for Educational and Medical Relief was registered and in May 1952, a 50-bed GKNMH came into existence, as a hospital for women and children.
Constructed on a huge landscape of approximately 14 acres, GKNMH gradually grew from strength to strength into a multi-disciplinary referral institution for quality medical care in this region. Subsequently, the institute is known for its services in oncology, cardiology, gynaecology, kidney transplants, orthopaedics and many others. Being a super specialty institute, the peripheral services incorporated by the hospital are one-of-its-kinds. The hospital strongly believes in the magic of IT and is thus the first to implement Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) system in India, which is the largest of its kind in Asia.
The hospital was also the one to conduct Asia’s First Trans Radial Live Course in the year 2002. The designated regional blood bank is a part of
the automated laboratory. Furthermore, the dedicated support services – laundry, CSSD, housekeeping, catering, etc. have enhanced the superior care of the hospital.
GKNMH has been a tertiary referral centre for more than five decades, thus known for some unique surgeries like aortic aneurysm looping and total
arterial revascularisation for coronary bypass; for its special clinics like diabetics clinic, pain clinic, paediatric low count ward and for serving
with humanity.

The services
The cardiology department is the foremost centre of this region with superior facilities from transoesophageal echocardiography to nuclear medicine study. The department is excellent in transradial interventions, stent implantation for multi vessel disease and pacemaker including AICD. The unit is renowned for introducing the radial artery route for angiography and angioplasty. Coronary care ambulance with resuscitation facilities has been one of the strong supports. The cardiothoracic department has been an equivalent support and has been consistently performing extraordinary surgeries. Few of the unique surgeries performed by this department are…
 Implantation of a combo device for cardiac failure and arrthymiasys pacing
 Aortic aneurysm looping into the pulmonology
 Total arterial revascularisation for
coronary bypass
 Device closure for congenital heart defects
The department of nuclear medicine with the latest dual head gamma camera is a feather in the cap for GKNMH and definitely a one-of-its-kind in the region. The technology has been used by the hospital to help diagnose diseases of the thyroid, bone, lung, liver, kidney, gall bladder and heart. The hospital is approved by the Government of Tamil Nadu for performing kidney transplantations and subsequently peritoneal and haemodialysis
for renal failure, poisoning, etc. are regularly performed here.
As the hospital commenced for women and children, the facilities incorporated with the department of paediatrics and obstetrics & gynaecology are hi-end. From laparoscopy to fertility clinic, there