Coimbatore Sri Ramakrishna Hospital to set up super speciality hospital.

Coimbatore-based Sri Ramakrishna Hospital is building a super speciality hospital in the same hospital premises at an estimated cost of Rs. 130 crore.

The new hospital is expected to open by early 2016.

In an interview to Business Line here recently, R Vijayakumhar, Joint Managing Trustee, S N R Sons Charitable Trust, which runs the hospital apart from a string of educational institutions, said the city already has hospitals offering quality healthcare that was next or even equal to what Chennai hospitals provided.

Among the leading institutions in the city were three or four corporate hospitals. That SRH was going for a super speciality high-tech hospital did not mean that its existing hospital did not offer specialised care.

But what differentiated it from other hospitals of similar nature was the profile of the patients coming for treatment as it was a charitable institution, and hence offered treatment at lower cost compared to others. It also provided 'large discounts' in cost to people from lower income groups which it considered as a corporate social responsibility, he said.

He said there was a noticeable trend of the middle and upper middleclass seeking 'better facilities, comforts and exclusivity' which are being offered in a few other places. The absence of this had led to some of SRH's patients moving to other hospitals that provided the exclusivity and SRH now seeks to fill this gap.


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