- Business
- Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Limited operates as a multispecialty healthcare provider in India, offering comprehensive medical services through its network of hospitals and a medical college. Incorporated in 1985 and headquartered in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, the company manages a flagship 1000-bed super specialty hospital along with satellite facilities in Ramnagar, Erode, Sulur, and Kovilpalayam, totaling over 2250 beds across its operations primarily in western Tamil Nadu. Core services encompass emergency and trauma care, cardiology via KMCH Heart Institute, comprehensive oncology through its Cancer Center, multi-organ transplants including kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, and bone marrow, critical care medicine, neurosciences, orthopedics and joint replacement, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, nephrology and urology, gastroenterology, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine with PET-CT, fertility and reproductive medicine, and preventive health check programs; advanced diagnostic and therapeutic technologies include Varian Trilogy Linear Accelerator, 3T MRI, 500-slice CT scanner, bi-plane cath lab, cardiac electrophysiology lab, and computer-assisted navigation for hip and knee replacements. The company also provides education services through KMCH Medical College and its integrated 750-bed general hospital, opened in October 2021 to support medical training. Recent expansions include the acquisition of a 2.2 lakh sqft property in Chennai's OMR area for approximately Rs 121 crore in 2024 to enter the Chennai market, alongside ongoing development of peripheral centers and leadership in steroid-free transplants and advanced procedures like GDC coiling for brain aneurysms.