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3.9
Doctor 0.8
Facilities 0.8
staff 2.7
Language assistance 3.7
Support 5.0
4 accreditations
hospital certificates of quality
57% Patients
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About the clinic

Global Hospital (Gleneagles Global Health City) is a multidisciplinary hospital in Chennai, India. The hospital is the best medical facility for the organ transplant in the country and the world’s leader in the number of successful liver transplants (over 1,000). Doctors are the 1st in India to perform minimally invasive lung and combined heart-kidney transplants.

Gleneagles Global Health City specializes in the organ and transplant, cardiology, pulmonology (treatment of the lungs), and oncology.

Global Hospital Chennai is a part of Gleneagles Global Hospitals Medical Group, which accepts 2 mln patients annually.

Highlights

2009 Year of foundation
140 doctors
80000 patients per year
18000 Operations per year
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hospital accreditations of quality

Indian National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
Indian National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories
IN, Indian National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
Indian National Hospital Accreditation Board certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
Indian National Hospital Accreditation Board
IN, Indian National Hospital Accreditation Board certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
World's Best Hospitals 2021 by Newsweek certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
World's Best Hospitals 2021 by Newsweek
US, World's Best Hospitals 2021 by Newsweek certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
World's Best Smart Hospitals 2023 by Newsweek certificate for Global Hospital Chennai
World's Best Smart Hospitals 2023 by Newsweek
US, World's Best Smart Hospitals 2023 by Newsweek certificate for Global Hospital Chennai

Global Hospital Chennai: more details about the clinic

India, Chennai

Global Hospitals Network was founded in 1999, and Global Hospital in Chennai was established in 2009.

Global Hospital is located in the Perumbakkam district of Chennai 2 km away from Perumbakkam Lake and 16 km away from Chennai International Airport.

 

Benefits of Global Hospital Chennai

  • Value for money. The cost of the organ transplants in India is 30-50% lower than in Europe and the USA. However, the quality of the procedures is at the same level as in the world's leading clinics. Global Hospital Chennai is equipped with the latest devices, doctors perform surgeries according to international protocols and have a vast experience in transplants.
  • High success rates of transplants. The success of the operation means that the transplant is performed without complications and the organ is not rejected.
  • Global Hospital Chennai is equipped with the latest diagnostic and treatment devices such as TrueBeam STx for accurate tumors irradiation, Da Vinci robot for minimally invasive operations through up to 1 cm incisions (size of a sunflower seed), and 3 Tesla Silent MRI for silent diagnostics.
  • Services for international patients. The medical staff assists patients with an interpreter, hotel booking, and supports them at all the stages of medical travel.

 

Global Hospital Chennai in figures

 

Awards and achievements of Global Hospital Chennai

NABH certificate

Global Hospital Chennai is certified by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH). The board commission supervises clinics to adhere to international quality standards for treatment.

 

NABL certificate 

The laboratory in Global Hospital Chennai is certified by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) that confirms the quality of the tests performed in the clinic.

 

Organ transplant achievements in India

  • The 1st paired donor liver transplant in an adult. This type of transplant is performed when a donor is not a good match for a patient. In this case, a patient swaps donors with a person whose blood type matches the donor’s one.
  • The 1st hospital in South India, where doctors conducted 5 successful organ transplants within 1 day.
  • The 1st split liver transplantation (one cadaver liver is divided to perform the transplant for 2 recipients).
  • The 1st successful single-lung transplant.

 

Liver transplant

Doctors of Global Hospitals are the leaders in the number of liver transplants in India. They conducted over 1,000 surgeries.

The success of the organ transplant in the clinic is 95%. It means that the organ is not rejected and a patient lives more than 5 years after the surgery.

Organ transplantation is indicated for acute liver failure and liver cancer.

Doctors perform the liver transplant in children and adults. They apply such types of the procedure as:

  • cadaveric donor transplant
  • liver-kidney complex transplantation
  • split liver transplant.

 

Kidney transplant

The transplant is performed in severe stages of chronic kidney disease, in case of kidney cancer, and malignant hyperthermia (excessive temperature rise).

Doctors of the Department have over 15 years of experience in the kidney transplant. They performed over 900 successful surgeries.

Surgeons of Global Hospitals are the 1st in India to perform the successful combined heart-kidney transplant.

Surgeons perform living donor or cadaver kidney transplant. Before the operation, doctors conduct the lab tests to determine how the donor kidney matches the recipient one.

The kidney transplant in Chennai Global Hospital lasts 3-4 hours.

 

Heart and lung transplant

The heart transplant is carried out in severe cases of heart failure when conservative treatment does not help. Surgeons perform the operation under general anesthesia applying a cardiopulmonary bypass. The procedure lasts less than 5 hours.

The lung transplant is indicated for the advanced forms of cystic and pulmonary fibrosis. In this case, doctors conduct the cadaver lung transplant.

Doctors prescribe transplantation of the heart-lung complex when a patient has the heart and lung diseases at the same time. Doctors of Global Hospital Chennai have conducted over 210 successful heart-lung transplants.

 

Services for international patients

Visa and transfer

The International Patient Services Department helps patients with a visa application (if needed).

After patient’s arrival at Chennai, Global Hospital staff will meet a patient at the airport and take to the clinic.

Accommodation 

A patient stays in a single or double ward and has meals according to a menu of the clinic, but taking into account dietary and religious preferences.

 

Ward in Global Hospital Chennai

 

Medical facilities of Gleneagles Global Hospitals Group:

Additional services
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Александр • Ultrasound
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439, Perumbakkam Main Rd, Green Court, Medavakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600100, India
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