Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram

Medanta – The Medicity in Gurugram is the founding and largest hospital in the Medanta network. Opened in 2009, the Sector 38 campus extends across 43 acres and has 1,440 operational beds, including 316 intensive-care beds, plus 40 operating theatres. It holds JCI, NABH and NABL accreditation and delivers care through more than 30 super-specialties.

Its principal fields include cardiac sciences, oncology, neurosciences, gastrosciences, orthopaedics and renal medicine. The same campus also provides liver, lung, kidney, heart and bone-marrow transplantation, chest surgery, paediatric care, women's health and a wide range of medical specialties. A facility of this scale can support complicated referrals, yet patients should still identify the exact institute responsible for their case rather than treating the hospital as a single undifferentiated service.

Technology in Gurugram includes the Da Vinci surgical system, MR elastography, FibroScan, endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound. The hospital also provides HITHOC, in which visible tumour is surgically removed from the chest cavity before heated chemotherapy circulates locally, as part of a pathway for selected advanced thymomas. These methods have specific indications and risks and are not a recommendation for any individual.

Medanta may suit patients who need a very large tertiary hospital for complex heart, cancer, neurological, digestive or renal disease, or for organ transplantation, where several institutes and intensive care can be used in the same admission. It is worth asking which institute and consultant would be responsible for the case.