When 50-year-old P. Ramakrishnan could not swallow food he ignored it, but one day he realised he could not even walk straight. An employee of a timber shop in Choolai, Mr. Ramakrishnan’s family took him to a hospital where surgeons inserted a pipe in his stomach to maintain feeding.
It was only later that a neurologist diagnosed that he had suffered a brain haemorrhage and referred him to the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital in Omandurar Estate. Ten months later, he is normal, back at work.
Mr. Ramakrishnan is among the 546 patients who were treated at the neurovascular cath lab.
Like many who are referred to the hospital, he did not have a health insurance card. The hospital arranged for a card and also treated him.
The procedure he underwent would have cost him several lakhs in a private hospital. Interventional radiologist A. Periakaruppan, who treated him, recently treated an eight-month-old child for aneurysm in the brain.
Since inception in February 2014, the hospital, with 110 surgeons and 150 staff nurses, has treated around 1.20 lakh patients.
Currently, there are around 300 inpatients at the hospital.
