Chennai, Nov. 13: A unique hospital for diabetes and heart ailments incorporating various systems of medicine is fast coming up in Chennai under the direct supervision of a group of eminent medical doctors. “It is not a new hospital but an institution where all people will get treatment at affordable rates,” Dr C.V. Krishnaswamy, leading physician and medical researcher, told Deccan Chronicle. He said the hospital would have humanistic medicine as its foundation stone. “Humanistic medicine is through open communication, mutual respect and emotional connection between physicians and their patients and we will be employing holistic medicine,” said Dr Krishnaswamy, who will head the hospital operations.

The services of Prof B. M. Hegde, cardiologist of global repute, will be an added attraction of the new venture. “We will make available to the patients the pulsed electro magnetic field generator (PEMFG) therapy which has been found to be quite successful in treating coronary artery diseases (CAD) which otherwise require expensive bypass surgeries,” said Dr Krishnaswamy.

Prof Hegde and Dr Krishnaswamy have proved that PEMFG, a small and inexpensive electronic instrument designed and developed by the US medical scientist, Dr Glen Gordon, is effective in treating CAD. “Details of the research work done by us will appear as a super-peer reviewed paper in a medical journal. Only then will we launch the PEMFG treatment,” said Dr Krishnaswamy.

Dr Krishnaswamy said the hospital would start functioning by early 2010.