Hosmat Hospital

HOSMAT multispecialty Hospital Pvt. Ltd., the Hospital for Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Arthritis & Trauma, is a 350-bed speciality hospital in central Bangalore, India. It also includes Hosmat Joint Replacement Center and HOSMAT Neurosciences. It is currently undergoing expansion to 500 beds, which would make it the largest speciality hospital of its kind in Asia.

Initially known as the accident hospital, later it was in the news as a centre for knee transplantation procedures. Now in its second decade, it was expanded in 2005 after the acquisition of an old ITI corporate office next door. Now it is Indias largest orthopedic and neuro center.

Procedures carried out at the hospital include:

• Medical and surgical treatment of arthritis
• Joint replacements of the knee, hip, shoulder and elbow
• Fibre-optic arthroscopy of various joints
• Treatment of fractures, non-union and malunion of fractures, ligament injuries, reconstructive surgeries, specialized Ilizarov surgery (limb lengthening procedure)
• Correction of deformities
• Spinal surgeries (disc problems, spondylitis, pinched nerves, spine fractures, deformities, scholiosis and tumours)
• Paediatric orthopaedics
• Industrial injuries

In addition, the Neurosurgery and Neurology Department provides microsurgery, skull base, spine, trauma work, nerve injuries, surgery for brain and spinal cord tumours, slipped discs, paraplegia, hemiplegia, quadraplegia, migraine, muscular disorder, Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers dementia, multiple sclerosis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GB syndrome).

HOSMAT Hospital is located in down town Bengaluru and is at a walking distance to MG road and Brigade road. The hospital is the first Comprehensive Tertiary Care Hospital in INDIA specializing in Orthopedics, Accident-Trauma care, (Arthroscopy & ACL surgeries) Sports medicine, Arthritis, and Neurosciences. The hospital after being awarded the prestigious NABH accreditation has now diversified into a Multispecialty hospital while still retaining its Brand image and focus on orthopedics and its related subspecialties.

HOSMAT hospital was started by Dr.Thomas Chandy, the chief of Orthopedics & Joint replacement center Dr. Chandy is a U.S Board certified orthopedic surgeon, who completed his post graduate residency in New York, followed by 2 fellowship training programs in University of Oklahoma. He practiced in the U.S for 17 years and returned, and is one of the first U.S Board certified orthopedic surgeon to practice in India.