Dr. S. Ramaswamy Pillai

Dr. S.Ramaswamy Pillai is the Founder and Chief Physician of Sri Raghavendra Siddha Hospital, Professionally Qualified in Siddha Medicine, hails from the family of Traditional Siddha Physicians. He has completed Five & half years professional course in Siddha Medicine in ATSVS College in April 1991. The Central Council of Indian Medicine, Govt. of India and the Tamil Nadu Siddha Medical Council, Govt. of Tamil Nadu have accorded 'A' Class Registration for his practice. He obtained M.D (Natural Medicine) in Sept 1996 at the Open International University for complimentary medicine at Colombo, recognized by World Health Organization. He has obtained meritorious Diplomas and Certificates from various Government and Non-Government organizations in the field of Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Acupuncture.First Time in India, He has started a Multi Speciality Siddha Hospital exclusively for Ortho and Neuro disorders and successfully treated more than twenty-five thousand patients who were suffering from all kinds of Ortho and Spine disorders for the past 20 years in lieu of Surgery and Painkillers. In addition to this, he has started a Medical Manuscript Research Centre for doing elaborate Research of Siddha Palm Leaf Manuscripts in the year 2007. This Centre has in its custody 500 bundles of Palm Leaf Medical Manuscripts and around Thousands of rare collections of Siddha Medical books. The Government of India, Department of AYUSH has appointed him as one of the members of the Siddha Experts Committee of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) under the CSIR. In addition to the above, he has been appointed as a Member of IMPCOPS Advisory Committee (IAC). Recently Pondicherry University has appointed him as an Advisory Committee Member in the UGC Project of Siddha Literature. In recognition of his valuable services, the Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Department of AYUSH has given a Project with a grant in aid for doing Cataloguing and Digitalization of rare Age Old Medical Palm Leaf Manuscripts. He has completed the above project and submitted around Three Thousand bundles of Digitalized Manuscripts to the Department of AYUSH.