Pulmonologist in Bommasandra, Bengaluru

The closest specialist lung clinic to Bommasandra

Bommasandra sits on the southern end of the Hosur Road corridor, and for most of its residents and workers, seeing a respiratory specialist has historically meant a long trip into central Bengaluru. That is no longer necessary. KIMS Hospital, Electronic City, is at Konappana Agrahara, a short distance up the same road, and it houses a full specialist lung service including transplant and intensive respiratory care.

Dr. Manjunath M Negigoudara consults there. He is a transplant pulmonologist with MBBS as a Gold Medalist from Bangalore Medical College, MD in Pulmonary Medicine from JSS Medical College, DNB in Respiratory Medicine and a Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology from Manipal Hospitals. He has personally managed 250+ lung transplant cases within the KIMS Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant, which has completed 780+ thoracic transplants. For most people in Bommasandra the relevance is simpler: a difficult chest problem can be sorted out ten minutes from home rather than an hour away.

Why occupational lung disease matters here specifically

Bommasandra Industrial Area and the adjoining Jigani belt are dense with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, engineering and metal-working units. Many of the processes carried out there generate dusts, fumes, solvent vapours and sensitising chemicals, and prolonged exposure to any of these can cause lung disease that is entirely preventable once identified.

The conditions seen most often in workers from this belt:

• Occupational asthma. Asthma that begins in adulthood after starting a particular job, caused by sensitisation to something handled at work. It is one of the few forms of asthma that can be cured, but only if the cause is identified before permanent airway changes set in.
• Irritant-induced airway disease. Following a significant exposure to fumes or a chemical spill, sometimes from a single incident.
• Chronic bronchitis and accelerated COPD. In workers exposed to dust and fumes over years, often mistaken for ordinary smoker's cough and frequently present in people who have never smoked.
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis and interstitial disease. From organic dusts, metal-working fluids and certain chemical exposures. See interstitial lung disease.
• Silicosis and dust-related fibrosis. From stone, sand and abrasive processes, which remains a genuine problem across the wider Anekal taluk.

The one pattern worth acting on

If your cough, wheeze, chest tightness or breathlessness improves when you are away from work for a few days and returns within a day or two of going back, that pattern is the single most useful clue in occupational lung medicine. Many workers notice it and assume it means the problem is minor. It is the opposite: it means the cause is identifiable, and that identifying it early may prevent permanent damage.

The assessment involves a detailed history of your actual job and the specific substances you handle, spirometry with reversibility testing, and serial peak flow readings kept over several weeks covering both working days and rest days. Where interstitial disease is suspected, a high-resolution CT and full lung function testing with DLCO are added. Bring your workplace safety data sheets if you can get them, because the specific chemical names matter.

Everything else a lung clinic handles

Occupational disease is the distinctive issue in this belt, but it is not the majority of the work. The clinic covers the full range of adult respiratory medicine.

• Asthma that is not controlled on inhalers, including severe asthma and biologic therapy assessment
• COPD and emphysema, including inhaler technique review, which is more often the problem than the drug
• Interstitial lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis. See pulmonary fibrosis and IPF
• Chronic cough lasting more than eight weeks, which usually has a findable cause
• Post-tuberculosis lung damage, common across this part of Bengaluru
• Sleep apnoea, with sleep studies and CPAP titration. See sleep apnoea
• Abnormal chest X-ray or CT findings picked up on routine or pre-employment screening
• Bronchoscopy and airway procedures. See procedures
• Pulmonary hypertension. See pulmonary hypertension
• Lung transplant evaluation for end-stage disease. See lung transplantation

Getting there from Bommasandra

By metro

The Namma Metro Yellow Line, which opened in August 2025, runs the length of this corridor and makes the journey entirely predictable regardless of Hosur Road traffic. From Delta Electronics Bommasandra, the southern terminus, travel two stops north through Biocon Hebbagodi and Huskur Road to Infosys Foundation Konappana Agrahara, which is the station for the KIMS Electronic City area. For anyone who has spent years budgeting an hour each way for a hospital appointment, this is the single biggest practical change in access to specialist care this area has had.

By road

KIMS Hospital is on Hosur Road at Konappana Agrahara, opposite the PES University EC Campus. From Bommasandra it is a straight run north, usually 10 to 15 minutes, longer during industrial shift changes. Coming from Jigani, join Hosur Road at Bommasandra and continue north. From Chandapura and Attibele, head north on Hosur Road through Bommasandra. Parking is available on site.

Getting your reports there first

Whatever way you travel, send your reports ahead. WhatsApp your chest X-ray or CT images, previous lung function tests and current medication list to +91 79937 41199 before the appointment. It routinely saves repeating tests you have already paid for.

For patients beyond Bommasandra

The southern Bengaluru belt

The same clinic serves Anekal, Jigani, Chandapura, Attibele, Hebbagodi, Huskur, Neraluru and the surrounding villages of Anekal taluk, plus the wider Hosur Road corridor north toward HSR Layout and Koramangala.

Across Karnataka and India

Manufacturing and pharmaceutical workers carry the same exposures wherever they are, and referrals for occupational lung disease and transplant assessment come from the industrial belts: Hosur and Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli and Chennai, Pune, Nashik, Ahmedabad and Vadodara, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam, and from Belagavi, Hubballi-Dharwad and Ballari within Karnataka. Send your chest imaging and any workplace exposure records on WhatsApp before travelling. Kempegowda International Airport is about 45 km from the hospital.

International patients

Workers and families come from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, from Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain where many Indian industrial workers are employed, and from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Ghana. Occupational exposure histories travel poorly between countries, so bring whatever safety documentation you have. A remote review over WhatsApp comes first. See second opinion.