GKNM Hospital’s cardiothoracic surgery department completes 50 years

The Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery astatine G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital (GKNM), Coimbatore, completed 50 years, performing implicit 45, 000 cardiac surgeries.

The Department, which was established successful 1974, performs much than 1,800 open-heart surgeries per year, said a merchandise from the infirmary that celebrated the department’s completion of 5 decades connected October 4.

Pullela Gopichand, Chief National Coach of the Indian badminton team; R. V. Ramani, Founder and Trustee of Sankara Eye Foundation; Jairam Varadaraj, Managing Director of Elgi Equipments Ltd; Ravi Kannan R., Director of Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Silchar, Assam; Ragupathy Veluswamy, Chief Executive Officer of GKNM Hospital; and P. Chandrsekar, Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director for Heart Transplants, spoke.