Billroth Hospitals

Billroth Hospitals
Billroth Hospitals
Geography
Location	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates	13°24′N 80°08′E / 13.4°N 80.13°ECoordinates: 13°24′N 80°08′E / 13.4°N 80.13°E
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	600
History
Founded	1990
Links
Website	www.billrothhospitals.com

Billroth Hospitals is a super speciality hospital chain based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by Dr. V. Jeganathan on 30 November 1990.^[1] Billroth Hospital has its branches in Shenoy Nagar, R A Puram and Tiruvallur.

Founder

Dr. V Jeganathan born on 19th Dec 1953, apart being the founder and director of Billroth Hospitals he was a well known Surgical Gastroenterologists, Laser and Laparoscopic Surgeon. He died on 17 May 2007 due to an heart attack.^[2]

Facilities

• Ambulance & Emergency Services
• Critical Care Unit
• Diagnostic Services such as Dual Source CT^[3] and several Others.
• Dialysis
• Endoscopy^[4]

Achievements

• Fast Track Cardiac Surgery - benefits of this are speedy recovery, shorter period of stay in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospital. In this 4-day fast track surgery, Day 1 is operation, Day 2 is ICU mobilisation, Day 3 is Ward care and on Day 4 is discharge of the patient.^[5]

• Bloodless Heart Surgery was successfully performed by team of doctors under the Chief Cardiac surgeon Dr S Thiagarajamurthy on a patient who underwent an aortic valve replacement procedure and coronary artery bypass surgery who refused blood transfusion.^[6]

References

1. "Where care comes First". Daily News (Sri Lanka). 11 April 2008.
2. "Dr. Jeganathan dead". The Hindu. 18 May 2007.
3. "Dual Source CT Scanner installed at Billroth". The Hindu. 8 August 2010.
4. "Endoscopy at Billroth Hospitals". Billroth Hospitals.
5. "Billroth Hospitals goes on fast track in performing heart surgery". The Hindu. 19 March 2009.
6. "Bloodless’ heart surgery performed". Indian Express. 8 January 2009.