Kovai Diagnostic Centre is the brain child of Dr. Elango and Dr. Muralitharan who had a long association since childhood. The two friends started the Scan Centre in a conservative manner with the dream of growing big in the near future. Started in October 1990, the unit located in R.S. Puram, Coimbatore, consisted of only two ultrasound scan units - one stationery and the other mobile. This unit soon showed success and growth and envisaging scope for expansion the two founders started the next unit in 1995 at 43 Tank Road, Sivananda Colony, Coimbatore. This unit comprised of a CT scan and an X-Ray unit in addition to ultra sound units.
The Kovai Diagnostic Centre saga thus began and the growth has been phenomenal with the Centre providing accurate results and becoming a household name for scans. Committed to providing the highest quality of scans, in a most convenient manner and with an atmosphere conducive to the clients, Kovai Diagnostic Centre provides ease of scheduling appointments, with certified radiologists to interpret the results, the latest and best equipment under each category producing the clearest images and highly trained technologists to ensure your comfort and safety. Today the scan Centre can boast of providing an integrated medical records system, electronically maintained, that allows your physicians to view the images within minutes of the test results being generated. This system will also ensure that your other health care providers who will be involved in your future care can have access to all this information.
Encouraged by this growth and the response from referring consultants and hospitals, Dr.Elango and Dr. Muralidharan purchased land in a prime locality, in the heart of the city, at 79 Alagappa Chettiar road in Tatabad and built the existing scan Centre. When inaugurated in January 2001, the Scan Centre started with a full-fledged Diagnostic Centre which included an automated biochemistry analyzer and a digital X-Ray system.
Dr.Rajkumar and Mr.Jose joined the Diagnostic Centre at this time and took over to manage the day to day activities of the Laboratory and Marketing & Administration respectively. Kovai Diagnostic Centre had now found a place on the global map and in 2002 it became the first Diagnostic Centre to have computerized radiography and the first to introduce it to the people of Coimbatore.
In 2005 the Diagnostic Centre saw the advent of a new machine – the OPG ( Orthopantomography ) which is a special machine used for obtaining radiographs of the teeth-bearing jaws, both lower and upper. This is the pride of the Centre and facilitates accurate reading.
Kovai Diagnostic Centre has been rapidly upgrading its Diagnostic Centre with high frequency Mammogram, X-Ray unit apart from the OPG equipment. Kovai Diagnostic Centre constantly keeps updating its Biochemistry analyzers, Cell counters, Elisa readers and Microbiology equipments to ensure maintenance of cutting edge technology for very accurate and quick results. Kovai Diagnostic Centre is enrolled with BIO RAD, USA for external quality control assessment.