The first medicity project in the county, Frontier Mediville, promoted by the Chennai-based Dr KM Cherian?s Frontier Lifeline Hospital, coming up on 400 acres at Elavur and Edoor villages near Gummudipoondi, north of Chennai, at an investment of Rs 1,500 crore, has been accorded the status of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) by the ministry of commerce and industry. It will begin operations with the setting up of a national medical science park and a 1,000-bed multi-speciality bio-hospital.
?Frontier Mediville will be established as an international and diversified platform providing medical services in healthcare, education, research, and manufacture. It will commence with a National medical science park, as its maiden venture, a one-of-its-kind pioneering model, in South Asia. The park will also have a symbiotic relationship with the proposed 1,000- bed multi-specialty ?bio-hospital?, an emerging concept combining present day clinical medicine with regenerative medicine and basic sciences enhanced with holistic therapy?, Dr Cherian said here on Thursday.
The bio-hospital in Frontier Mediville would be the first of its kind in India and one among the18 proposed around the world, he said.
The proposed medicinal science park would be a hub for research and training and develop treatment methodologies with specific focus on regenerative medicine. It would be an advanced medical technology research facility that would use biosciences, involving micro-level concepts such as nano-technology and genetic application, and biotechnology, he said.
According to Dr Cherian, ?this facility will be exclusively dedicated to basic and applied clinical research, development and commercialisation of technology for use of both preventive and curative healthcare.
The bio-hospital would provide state-of-the-art tertiary care in all sub-specialties of medicine supported by modern basic sciences such as stem cell technology, tissue engineering, nanotechnology and ?neurIT? etc., he said.
The different sub-specialties of medicine offered would be cardiology and cardiac surgery, oncology, neurology, nephrology, orthopaedics, urology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, gynaecology and maternal healthcare, paediatrics and neonatology, trauma and intensive care, geriatric care, and day-care surgery, all backed and supported by allied health sciences and services.
?One primary purpose of establishing this project in a rural set-up was to benefit and uplift the rural areas through training and employment opportunities, by involving them in the delivery of skilled healthcare?, Dr Cherian said.
