Hospital discovery · Pulmonology
Review 3 validated Pulmonology hospitals, 11 affiliated pulmonologists and 6 mapped respiratory services in Chennai, India.
“Best” reflects the hospital-discovery search phrase. Hospitals are ordered alphabetically and are not clinically ranked, scored or endorsed.
Quick answer
Pulmonology assesses and treats diseases of the lungs, airways and pleura. GAF’s current India catalog includes diagnostic sampling, therapeutic bronchoscopy, pleural procedures and lung transplantation; the appropriate service depends on imaging, breathing reserve, oxygen needs, bleeding risk, the clinical question and whether a result will change treatment. This Chennai page is limited to hospitals with a listed pulmonologist relationship.
3 validated hospital relationships currently match Pulmonology in Chennai, including Apollo Hospital, Chennai, Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, MGM Healthcare, Chennai. Counts require a matching hospital specialty and affiliated pulmonologist; they are not rankings or claims about outcomes.
6 respiratory services have validated hospital and doctor relationships in Chennai, including Bronchoscopy, EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound), Airway Stenting, Medical Thoracoscopy, TBNA (Transbronchial Needle Aspiration), Lung Transplantation. Open a procedure page for the exact hospitals and doctors connected to that procedure.
At a glance
Hospital inclusion requires a Pulmonology relationship and an affiliated pulmonologist. Procedure pages additionally require matching hospital-procedure and doctor-procedure relationships.
Hospitals
Cards use factual campus data and validated relationship counts. Ordering is alphabetical by city and hospital name, not a ranking.
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Chennai, India
JCI Accredited
NABH AccreditedApollo Hospital, Chennai is listed for Pulmonology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 2 affiliated pulmonologists. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Bronchoscopy, EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound), Airway Stenting, TBNA (Transbronchial Needle Aspiration).
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH Accredited
NABL AccreditedGleneagles HealthCity Chennai is listed for Pulmonology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 4 affiliated pulmonologists. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Bronchoscopy, EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound), Airway Stenting, Medical Thoracoscopy and 2 more.
Chennai, India
JCI AccreditedNABH AccreditedNABL AccreditedMGM Healthcare, Chennai is listed for Pulmonology in Chennai because GAF's current data connects this campus with 5 affiliated pulmonologists. Validated hospital-and-doctor mappings include Bronchoscopy, EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound), Airway Stenting, Medical Thoracoscopy and 3 more.
This table compares recorded attributes only. It does not score or rank hospitals.
| Hospital | City | Accreditation | Beds | Established | Validated procedures | Listed doctors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Hospital, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH | 745 | 1983 | 4 | 2 |
| Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 1000 | 1999 | 6 | 4 |
| MGM Healthcare, Chennai | Chennai | JCI · NABH · NABL | 400 | 2016 | 7 | 5 |
Procedures
Doctors
Each doctor has a matching hospital and Pulmonology relationship. Procedure pages additionally require that exact doctor-procedure mapping.
Senior Consultant
Dr. Prasanna Kumar Thomas is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 40 years of experience in pulmonology. His list is medical respiratory work. He manages chronic obstructive pulmonary disease…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Raj B Singh is Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised pulmonology in India for 37+ years experience. Flexible versus rigid access, EBUS versus conventional TBNA, thoracoscopy versus…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Jayaraman S is a Senior Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 20 years of experience in pulmonology. His list is medical respiratory work with two procedures alongside it. He performs bronchoscopy…
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Consultant, Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Lung Transplantation
Dr. Sreenivasan V is a Consultant in the Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Lung Transplantation at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 18 years of experience. His profile records pulmonology together w…
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Consultant
Dr. Aishwarya Rajkumar is a Consultant at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 15 years of experience in pulmonology. Her list covers bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, transbronchial needle aspiration, medica…
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Consultant in Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Jebin Roger S is Consultant in Pulmonary Medicine at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India. He has practised pulmonology in India for 15+ years experience. Flexible versus rigid access, EBUS versus conventional TBNA, th…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Sindhura Koganti is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 13 years of experience. Her profile records pulmonology together with interventional pulmonology and sleep medicine. Her list…
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Senior Consultant
Dr. Vimi Varghese is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles HealthCity Chennai, with more than 12 years of experience. Her profile records pulmonology together with lung transplant surgery. Her list is narrow and matches tha…
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City context
Chennai has long-established respiratory medicine, interventional bronchoscopy, thoracic oncology, pleural and selected lung-transplant services. This page does not infer that every centre performs bronchoscopy or has every approach listed. Name the campus with a dedicated bronchoscopy suite, continuous respiratory monitoring, pathology and microbiology handling, anaesthesia support and access to rigid bronchoscopy or ICU if escalation is needed. Doctor and hospital cards in Chennai resolve only from exact live CMS relationships for Bronchoscopy. If that exact relationship is absent, cards must remain empty; a generic Pulmonology or hospital label cannot verify current acceptance. This is a catalog gap, not an availability or quality claim.
Chennai has long-established respiratory medicine, interventional bronchoscopy, thoracic oncology, pleural and selected lung-transplant services. This page does not infer that every centre performs EBUS or has every approach listed. Confirm the named campus has linear EBUS and Doppler equipment, compatible needles, anaesthesia and respiratory rescue capability, and a documented pathway for cytology, cell block, microbiology and molecular specimen handling; ROSE should be claimed only when scheduled. Doctor and hospital cards in Chennai resolve only from exact live CMS relationships for EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound). If that exact relationship is absent, cards must remain empty; a generic Pulmonology or hospital label cannot verify current acceptance. This is a catalog gap, not an availability or quality claim.
Doctor and hospital cards in Chennai resolve only from exact live CMS relationships for Bronchoscopy. If that exact relationship is absent, cards must remain empty; a generic Pulmonology or hospital label cannot verify current acceptance. This is a catalog gap, not an availability or quality claim.
General accreditation does not establish current bronchoscopy acceptance or equipment. Name the campus with a dedicated bronchoscopy suite, continuous respiratory monitoring, pathology and microbiology handling, anaesthesia support and access to rigid bronchoscopy or ICU if escalation is needed.
Send chest ct or hrct report and complete image files showing the airway or lung target, previous bronchoscopy, lavage, cytology, histopathology and microbiology reports and current oxygen or respiratory-support details where applicable.
Obtain written acceptance from a named pulmonologist or interventional pulmonologist and verify the campus, anaesthesia, ICU backup, device availability and pathology pathway.
Chennai International Airport: Some hospital corridors have direct airport access, but imaging, bronchoscopy, pathology and transplant follow-up may occur in different buildings. Confirm the complete pathway. Use air-conditioned, flexible lodging near the respiratory campus with reliable electricity for any oxygen concentrator or PAP device. Heat and humidity increase fluid loss and fatigue; patients using oxygen should follow their prescribed flow and equipment-safety plan rather than changing it themselves.
Obtain written acceptance from a named pulmonologist or interventional pulmonologist and verify the campus, anaesthesia, ICU backup, device availability and pathology pathway.
Treatment guides
Bronchoscopy is a minimally invasive airway procedure in which a thin flexible scope with a light, camera and working channel passes through the nose or mouth, larynx and trachea into the bronchi. It can inspect the airway, wash cells and microbes from a lung segment, brush or biopsy a lesion and, in therapeutic cases, remove secretions or treat an obstruction.
Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) combines flexible bronchoscopy with a linear ultrasound transducer at the scope tip so structures beyond the airway wall can be seen and sampled. EBUS-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) commonly targets defined mediastinal and hilar lymph-node stations or a central peribronchial mass.
Airway stenting places a tubular prosthesis in the trachea or a main bronchus to hold open a clinically important central-airway narrowing, seal selected airway defects or support a collapsing airway. Silicone and self-expanding covered metal stents behave differently and usually require bronchoscopic surveillance and a removal or revision strategy.
Medical thoracoscopy is a single- or limited-port examination of the pleural space performed by a trained pulmonologist, usually under local anaesthetic with conscious sedation in a procedure room. It permits drainage, direct inspection, multiple parietal pleural biopsies and, when appropriate, talc poudrage pleurodesis followed by chest-drain management.
Conventional transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) passes a sheathed needle through the bronchial wall into a lymph node or peribronchial lesion selected from CT and airway landmarks, without real-time ultrasound. Aspirated cells and fragments are prepared for cytology, cell block and selected microbiology.
Lung transplantation replaces one or both irreversibly diseased lungs with deceased-donor organs; heart-lung transplantation is reserved for selected combined cardiopulmonary disease. It is a regulated allocation treatment with major surgery, ICU care and lifelong immunosuppression—not an organ that an international patient can buy or schedule.
Cost guides
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
City-specific planning guide; a hospital quotation is still required
$400–$1,200 indicative planning range
$800–$2,500 indicative planning range
$2,000–$6,500 indicative planning range
$1,800–$5,000 indicative planning range
$700–$2,000 indicative planning range
$28,000–$70,000 indicative planning range
India planning ranges are not city tariffs, hospital quotations or patient-specific prices. A named hospital must confirm the written estimate.
Conditions
Conditions appear only when the controlled specialty profile or canonical procedure content records the relationship.
Visible narrowing, tumour, retained secretions or unexplained airway change may require diagnostic or therapeutic bronchoscopy after CT and clinical review.
Target location and the tissue needed for pathology or molecular testing guide EBUS, TBNA, endobronchial or transbronchial sampling.
Selected cases may need transbronchial forceps or cryobiopsy only after multidisciplinary review of HRCT pattern, physiology and procedural risk.
Fluid, pleural thickening or suspected infection or malignancy may require drainage, biopsy or thoracoscopic inspection according to imaging and stability.
Suspected aspiration can require urgent flexible or rigid bronchoscopy with anaesthesia and airway-rescue planning.
Lung transplantation is a separate multidisciplinary programme requiring disease, functional, psychosocial, donor and transplant-risk assessment.
Questions
3 hospitals currently meet the validated specialty and affiliated-doctor rules shown on this page.
6 controlled respiratory services currently have both hospital and doctor relationship evidence in Chennai.
11 listed pulmonologists are affiliated with the validated hospitals on this page.
Compare factual details such as city, accreditation, beds, established year, validated procedures and affiliated doctors. GAF does not assign an overall score or clinical ranking.
Use linked GAF cost guides as indicative India planning ranges. Technique, fractions, planning, imaging, admission and patient-specific requirements must be confirmed in a written hospital quotation.
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