Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian on Thursday highlighted major achievements at the Omandurar Government Multi-Super-Speciality Hospital in Chennai, while addressing medical admissions and nurse regularisation in the state.
Over the past four and a half years, the hospital has completed 20,000 interventional cardiology procedures and 500 robotic surgeries. An advanced robotic surgery system installed in March 2022 at a cost of Rs 34.60 crore, unique among government hospitals in India, has enabled complex cardiac, cancer, gastrointestinal and general surgeries with minimal scarring and shorter hospital stays. Many procedures that would cost up to Rs 20 lakh in private hospitals are being provided free under government health schemes.
A cardiology department launched in 2024 has led to a sharp rise in patient numbers in the post-COVID period. Daily outpatient attendance has increased from 600–700 earlier to about 2,500, with 600–700 cardiac patients each day. Around 20,000 patients have benefited from cardiac interventions, including angiograms, stent implantation, bypass surgeries and valve replacements. The hospital has also achieved a global first by repairing an aortic tear in a 73-year-old patient using a shoulder-access device under an insurance scheme.
The hospital has added departments for gastrointestinal surgery and urology, a prenatal diagnostic and research centre, and plans to launch a Rs 7.70 crore sports medicine wing soon.
On admissions, the Health and Family Welfare Principal Secretary sought Union Government approval on the 10th to fill vacant medical and dental seats. Approval has been granted, and counselling will be held between the 20th and 25th to fill 50 seats, including 23 medical and 27 dental seats. Tuition fees have been collected from students who discontinued their courses, and the reasons will be disclosed.
So far, 3,783 nurses have been regularised, while 8,322 await placement as vacancies arise. Nurses appointed during the COVID-19 period have been included in the contract nurses list. The government remains open to dialogue and said no one has been denied work over the past four and a half years.
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