Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, Chennai

Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre is an 824-bed tertiary medical centre in Porur, Chennai, with 156 intensive-care beds. It operates within the Sri Ramachandra academic campus and provides care across a broad range of medical and surgical specialties. The medical centre lists JCI, NABH, NABL and AABB accreditations and combines inpatient treatment, critical care, diagnostics and specialist services in one large hospital setting.

Its departments include cardiac care, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, medical and surgical oncology, radiation oncology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, spine surgery, gastroenterology, hepatology, nephrology, urology, paediatrics and many other specialties. The medical centre also runs organ transplant programmes. Its transplant services include kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, small bowel and corneal transplantation. Oncology services cover surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for adults and children.

The emergency department operates 24 hours a day and has 30 beds. It is equipped with multiparameter monitors, ventilators and point-of-care diagnostics. Emergency support includes round-the-clock CT and MRI imaging, interventional cardiology and Cath Lab access, emergency dialysis and specialist teams for stroke, trauma and paediatric emergencies.

This combination of critical care, imaging, surgery and specialist departments supports patients whose treatment may involve several teams during the same admission. Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre may be particularly relevant for complex cardiac disease, cancer, neurological disorders, major orthopaedic conditions, kidney or liver disease, organ transplantation and emergency cases that require intensive monitoring or rapid access to advanced diagnostics and intervention.