Kims-icon Hospital, Visakhapatnam

KIMS-ICON Hospital in Visakhapatnam is a 434-bed multispecialty hospital on a 17-acre campus with about 2 million sq ft of built-up area. It has a cath lab, 1.5 Tesla MRI, 16-slice CT, dialysis with CRRT and round-the-clock emergency care.

The hospital lists institutes for cardiac sciences, dental science, gastroenterology and hepatology, heart and lung transplantation, neurosciences, oncology, organ transplantation, orthopaedics, paediatrics, renal sciences, reproductive sciences and robotic sciences. Other departments include anaesthesiology, critical care, emergency medicine, endocrinology, ENT, general surgery and hepatobiliary surgery.

Diagnostic services and a blood bank support the hospital’s medical, surgical and emergency departments. The combination of intensive care, anaesthesia, imaging, laboratory support and specialist surgery allows teams to manage patients who need several stages of assessment or treatment during one admission.

The hospital's infrastructure page lists ECMO, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), and a gastroenterology suite covering endoscopy, colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy, Spyglass cholangioscopy, ERCP, power spiral enteroscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, manometry, breath tests and Fibroscan, as well as paediatric endoscopy. Cardiac services listed include 4D echo and an electrophysiology lab.

Respiratory and surgical facilities named on the page include thoracoscopy, bronchoscopy (including rigid, paediatric and neonatal), radial and convex EBUS, pulmonary function testing, a neuro operating microscope, neuro endoscopy, orthopaedic navigation, hysteroscopy and colposcopy, and audiometry. Ophthalmology facilities include phaco, YAG laser, A-scan and B-scan, and the diagnostic list also includes mammography, 4D imaging and physiotherapy services.

The hospital may suit patients in Visakhapatnam and Andhra Pradesh who need cardiac, neurological, cancer, orthopaedic, kidney or organ-transplant care, including heart and lung transplantation, in a large hospital with intensive care and emergency services.