MIOT International, Chennai

About MIOT International, Chennai

• Padmashri Prof. Dr. P. V. A. Mohandas started the Madras Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (MIOT) on February 12th, 1999, as a 70-bed hospital focussed primarily on Orthopedics and Trauma Care. 
• Today, MIOT International is offering quaternary care across 63 specialties. 
• The hospital is accredited with NABH and NABL and also comprises NABH accreditation for Medical Laboratory and for Medical Imaging Services.
• The imaging and diagnostic facilities, including the state-of-the-art laboratories, rank 8th internationally. 
• MIOT Hospital is recognized, both nationally and internationally, as one of India's premier healthcare institutions.
• It has been welcoming patients from over 130 countries for close to four decades.
• MIOT International is a prominent player in the medical field, particularly in orthopedics, and is the top provider of knee and hip revision surgery in India.
• Some of the "firsts" of the hospital are
  • 1st hip joint replacement surgery - Padmashri Prof. Dr. P. V. A. Mohandas performed the first hip replacement surgery in India.
  • 1st kidney transplant across blood groups - The first kidney transplant in India, which involved a donor and a recipient with different blood groups, was successfully performed at MIOT.
  • 1st haploidentical bone marrow transplant (only needs a 50% matching donor) - Most recently, the super-specialists performed the first haploidentical bone marrow transplant (a revolutionary bone marrow procedure) in India. 
  • In Asia-Pacific, MIOT was the first to install TrueBeam STx (revolutionary radiotherapy machine).
• As the hospital grew into a full-fledged, multi-specialty institution, the skilled surgeons pioneered keyhole surgery and pinhole surgery in the country.
• MIOT Hospital is a leading center for orthopedic and stem cell research.