Vijaya Hospital, Chennai

Vijaya Hospital is the flagship hospital of the Vijaya Medical and Educational Trust in Vadapalani, Chennai. Established in 1972, the hospital currently has 340 beds and 9 operating theatres and provides multispeciality tertiary care across major medical and surgical disciplines. Clinical services include cardiology, general surgery, ENT, gastroenterology, internal medicine, pulmonology, nephrology, obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, urology, physiotherapy and neurology, alongside other specialist departments.

This allows patients with complex conditions to receive multidisciplinary assessment and inpatient treatment within one hospital. The hospital is supported by operating theatres, intensive-care services, CT and MRI imaging, cardiac and neuro-interventional care, laboratory diagnostics and emergency support. Its long-standing cardiac, renal, neurological and surgical programmes make it suitable for both planned treatment and higher-acuity admissions.

The hospital is recognised by the National Board of Examinations to run DNB programmes in cardiology, general medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics. In cardiology, the cath lab is described as equipped for simple and complex coronary angioplasty and minimal-access procedures, with an interventional team available 24/7 for cardiac emergencies. Procedures listed include primary and rescue angioplasty, bifurcation and chronic total occlusion angioplasty, FFR measurement, pacemaker, CRT and ICD implantation, EP study with radiofrequency ablation, device closure of ASD, VSD and PDA, and endovascular aneurysm repair. Non-invasive services include transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and CT coronary angiography.

The hospital also has an in-house blood bank that separates donated blood into components including packed red cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelet concentrate, single-donor platelets and cryoprecipitate, and the blood bank is inspected and audited by the FDA. Other services listed on its site include a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, with the page naming wounds that may not heal because of diabetes or radiation injury among the conditions it treats, and a mothers' milk bank that pasteurises donated milk for babies in the newborn ICU.

Vijaya Hospital is particularly relevant for cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal and surgical treatment in Chennai.