A pediatric and laparoscopic surgeon in a private hospital in Mettupalayam has been offering his expertise to doctors in government hospital for seven years now. The only super specialty surgeon in Mettupalayam, Dr D Vijayagiri said he wanted to make the government hospital a place where even complex surgeries are performed. Vijayagiri has so far performed over 50 surgeries along with doctors at Mettupalayam GH free of cost. But for his service, patients have to be referred to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

Doctors in a private hospital in Mettupalayam diagnosed a 30-year-old woman with forme fruste type anomaly - a condition in which the bile duct needs to be replaced to avoid further medical complication. A rare surgery which would cost over Rs 3-4 lakh in advanced medical facilities, doctors in SGK hospital Mettupalayam performed the over 7-hour long surgery with limited resources and one-fourth of the cost.