Inauguration of 512 Slice CT Scan in Dr.Mehta’s Hospitals

Inauguration of 512 Slice CT Scan in Dr.Mehta’s Hospitals, Velappanchavadi, Chennai

Dr Mehta’s Hospitals, the pioneer in Quality Healthcare and Healthcare Transformation in India is widely recognized as a leading Healthcare provider in India. With over 85 years of expertise and experience, we have helped heal consumers across generations and is the oldest and most experienced private hospital in India.

With a legacy of Tens of Millions consumers, 1 Million plus Successful Deliveries, Exceptional Clinical Outcomes, 250 Thousand plus complex surgeries and 85 years of experience, Dr Mehta’s Hospitals is committed to meeting the needs of families by providing world-class care closer to home.

Great developments in CT technology, such as the introduction of spiral scanning, multirow detector systems, exceptionally short scanning times, together with the introduction of new techniques have made CT an increasingly popular diagnostic tool.

Dr. Haripriya Aravind, Director of Aravind Eye Hospital inaugurated the 512 Slice Computed Tomography (CT) system at Dr Mehta’s Hospitals - Global Campus, Velappanchavdi today. The event was presided by Mr Dilip Mehta, Chairman of Dr Mehta’s Hospitals. Medical Director Dr Kannan and his team lighted the kuthuvilaku to mark the auspicious beginning. Over 45 Doctors and members of the Medical fraternity participated in this inauguration.

The new CT Scan offers many advantages to patients and Doctors. These include superb image quality, lower dosage, a more comfortable experience for patients, more patient-centred examinations, the ability to combine anatomical and functional imaging, early detection and clear diagnosis.

The new CT scan offers fast, high-quality acquisitions at optimized dose for patients young and old, large and small, across a wide spectrum of procedures: cardiac, angiography, brain, chest, abdomen, orthopedic, and more. It has special features like Poly-trauma Assessment, Triple Rule Out for Cardiac Emergencies, Virtual Endoscopy, SnapShot Pulse, CT Colonography, CT Perfusion and Vessel Analysis.

Dr Mehta’s Hospitals Overview

Dr Mehta’s Hospitals is widely recognized as a leading Healthcare provider in India. With over 85 years of expertise and experience, we have helped heal consumers across generations and is the oldest and most experienced private hospital in India and amongst the Top 30 on the planet.

Delivering very strong ethical, effective, stringent infection control has helped Dr. Mehta’s deliver top clinical outcomes consistently and has helped heal over millions of our consumers across all age groups.

Dr Mehta’s Hospitals is widely respected as among the safest and healthiest birthing locations in India having helped deliver over One Million Successful Births. Our Pediatric Specialty Units have been recognized by Clinicians and Consumers as Leadersand Centers of Excellence across India.

The Legacy

Dr. Mehta’s Hospitals was founded in 1933 in Sowcarpet by Dr.Anantrai J Mehta, who had a vision to setup an institution that was open to all members of the Indian community that focused on consumer safety, affordability and affection in a Pre-Independence era. Joined by Dr.Savitha Ben Mehta, a Gynecologist trained by leading British and Indian Gynecologists in 1940, they relocated and expanded this to a Multi-specialty Surgical and Birthing unit in 1955 at Chetpet, Chennai. Their children Dilip Mehta, Dr. Usha Shukla and their grand children Sameer Mehta and Dr. Pranav Mehta continue the legacy today.

Dr Mehta’s Hospitals -Today

Dr Mehta’s Hospitals today has over 500 beds across our Multi-Specialty Tertiary Care Unit with over 80 Medical and Surgical specialties and 600 leading clinicians. Our units have helped deliver over a Million babies.  We have been privileged to have served more than 20,000 families across 2 generations and more than 300 families across 3 generations. Mehta Multispecialty Hospitals has successfully conducted over 250,000 surgeries (including >100,000 complex surgeries) and 100s of successful transplants.