Dr.Kamala Selvaraj MD DGO PhD

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Hospital Name: GG Hospital Department: Gynaecology & Infertility

Right in the heart of the city of Chennai is Dr. Kamala Selvaraj’s dream project, the "Fertility Research Centre", pioneering Assisted Reproductive Technology with a state-of -the -art IVF laboratory.

She is the daughter of the famous yesteryear cine star late Mr. Gemini Ganesan. After graduating from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Dr. Selvaraj completed her DGO and MD from Madras Medical College Chennai. She got trained in \'In vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer\' techniques in Monash University in 1985. Dr. Kamala Selvaraj commissioned the FIRST TEST TUBE BABY of South India in August 1990 and since then had many achievements to her credit. In 2001, she was awarded PhD for her thesis on "Premature Ovarian Failure and its management".


Established on 31st January 1982, GG Hospital is currently a four-storied, 70 bedded hospital covering all specialties in Obstetrics and Gynecology, general medicine, pediatrics – neonatology and general surgery. As a super specialty hospital, it deals with all aspects of fertility research and offers the latest innovative laboratory techniques in the field of Assisted Reproduction.

Fertility Research Center (FRC), a unit of GG Hospital was inaugurated in the year 1986. It is the pioneering institute for ART in South India. With a fully equipped state of the art IVF laboratory, it serves about 3000 to 3500 childless couples every year from India and abroad.

The hospital has a well-equipped general cum laparoscopic surgical theatre with an adjoining labor suite, neonatal intensive care unit, radio diagnostics and clinical laboratory, ultrasound imaging department, emergency room and an in house pharmacy. Several diagnostic and operative procedures are performed including hysterolaparoscopy, fertility enhancing laparoscopic surgeries besides minimally invasive procedure for male infertility.

The regularly updated library is equipped with all the latest books on assisted reproduction, andrology, ultrasonography, obstetrics and gynecology, high risk pregnancy, pediatrics, endoscopic surgical techniques, genetics, endocrinology, cardiology and basic sciences like embryology, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pathology, histology, and biochemistry. Wireless internet and subscription to top fertility journals are assets to the existing features.