Helios Hospital, Velachery

Helios Hospital is a multispeciality hospital at Rajalakshmi Nagar in Velachery, Chennai, open 24 hours a day.Orthopaedics is the hospital's largest department, covering orthopaedic surgery, arthroscopy, paediatric orthopaedics, and prosthetics and orthotics for patients needing artificial limbs or bracing.Physiotherapy and rehabilitation are unusually well developed here, with sports physiotherapy, paediatric physiotherapy, geriatric physiotherapy, labour physiotherapy, exercise physiology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation each recorded as separate disciplines.Paediatrics covers general paediatrics, paediatric neurology and paediatric pathology.Women's health covers obstetrics and gynaecology, obstetric ultrasonology, gynaecological laparoscopy and gynaecologic oncology.Surgical services include general surgery, minor surgery, piles surgery, neurosurgery, jaw surgery and ENT surgery, with general anaesthesia on site.Pathology runs across anatomic, oral and renal pathology, and dentistry and occupational medicine complete the departments.Helios Hospital is located at 39, 7th Cross Street, Rajalakshmi Nagar, Velachery, Chennai 600042. Velachery sits in south Chennai between the Grand Southern Trunk Road and the IT corridor at Taramani, with its own MRTS station and the Phoenix mall at its centre. It is one of the city's densest residential areas and among the worst affected in the 2015 floods, which is part of why round-the-clock local hospital cover matters here, and the hospital serves Adambakkam, Guindy, Madipakkam and Pallikaranai.