KIMS Hospitals is one of the first centers in India to establish the Department of Genetics that is equally committed to offering genetic services to patients and involved in advanced research in various fields of medical genetics.

The Genetic expert assists the doctors of all specialties at KIMS and other hospitals in diagnosing rare genetic conditions, helping the patient and their referring doctor in understanding the genetic etiology, available preventative reproductive options such as prenatal diagnosis and prenatal screening, preventive genetic testing and counselling, precision oncology testing and counselling, management plans of the genetic syndromes.

GENETICS OUTREACH PROGRAM

The KIMS Genetics team is constantly involved in spreading awareness among both the health care professionals and also for the public corporate sector. This is done by conducting health awareness talks in various corporate, social organizations and institutes, remote villages with high incidence of genetic diesease.

Genetic awareness, especially among the young population (those yet to marry or couple who are planning a family) can prevent them from the emotional and economic burden of genetic diseases in their children in the future. Knowing your genetic carrier status for common diseases such as Beta Thalassemia, sickle cell disease, spinal muscular atrophy etc. can help you prevent severe life-threatening genetic diseases in your children.

If you or your firm/hospital is interested in having an awareness talk by our Genetic specialist, we would be happy to do this as our social responsibility. Please contact Dr. Pavani Upendram at 040-71225009.

EVENTS

• Breast cancer awareness talk on October 30th, 2023 with team Hygene.
• National level workshop on Importance of Genetic counselling summaries for patients and their families in the Indian Scenario on December 22nd, 2022 with BGC.
• Fluorescent insitu Hybridisation workshop on Solid tumors on August 23rd, 2017.
• World Cancer Day Initiative on February 4th 2014 – to create awareness of signs of familial or hereditary cancers among the public and among clinicians in KIMS hospital – with Map My Genome Ltd.
• Workshop on Next-Gen Sequencing and its applications in medicine – with Strand Life Sciences.