Telemedicine

Telemedicine, a recent advance in medical field is now practised at the hospital.  The Telemedicine Centre of the hospital is connected via satellite to  Narayana Hirudayalaya, an advanced hospital at Bangalore concentrating on all heart problems, with all the infrastructure for treatment including heart surgery.The Telemedicine Centre helps the rural poor who have cardiac problems to get the best  facilitates to consult the doctors at  Narayana Hirudayalaya directly and proceed with the treatment.  Excellent inpatient facilities are available in the intensive coronary care ward which has four beds to treat patients with heart problems at any time.The centre has got connected to Cancer Institute, Adayar, Chennai and Apollo Hospitals for providing urban treatment facilities to the rural patients.