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In Patients
Services
The Nehru hospital provides tertiary care to the patients, who come not only
from the neighboring states but also from far off states like West Bengal and
Bihar. The total bed strength is 1402 which includes 300 beds for children. In the year 2005 a total number of 49165 patients were
admitted to the various wards of the hospital.
There
has been tremendous progress in the diagnostic facilities now available
at the Institute because of the generous funding from the Government of
India.
The
department of Radio-diagnosis has undergone a great change and is one of
the well-stocked department of the country. They now have facilities for
all types of diagnostic and imaging techniques including DSA, MRI and mammography.
Interventional radiology has become a routine for procedures on gastrointestinal
tract, kidney, Vascular diseases or other systems of the body.
The
departments of Neurology, Gastroenterology, Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine
have laboratory facilities, which can be counted as the best in the country.
The
department of Immunopathology is a surveillance and diagnostic centre for
AIDS and can boast of the most sophisticated laboratory in Immunopathology
in the country.
Nuclear
Medicine facilities are available at PGI for investigating and diagnosing
a number of diseases related to brain, heart, liver, spleen, thyroid, kidneys,
lymphatics, etc.
The department of Biophysics conducts an intensive
course on the safe use of radioisotopes to train scientists, research workers
and technicians in the methodologies to protect the patients, the technical
personnel and the public from the radiation hazard arising out of the use of
radioisotopes.
The
hospital also has an intensive care unit, cardiac care unit, respiratory
care unit, intensive care unit for babies and a tetanus care unit. All
of these are equipped with life support equipments for providing specialised
care to the very sick patients.
The
Microsurgical techniques help the surgeon to obtain a better view of the
tiny structures and facilities are available in departments of ENT, Ophthalmology,
Neurosurgery & Plastic Surgery. Facilities are available for laser
treatment of various ophthalmic, ENT and Neuro-surgical disorders.
The
hospital while remaining busy in providing advanced medical care to patients,
has not forgotten the preventive aspect of health care. The ante-natal
clinic, well baby clinic, family welfare clinic, Immunisation programme,
diet clinic, child guidance clinic, etc. are some of the activities undertaken
routinely in this direction. PGI is striving to deploy its talent in solving
the complex health and development problems in rural areas. It is helping
in devising innovative and effective programmes in health care so as to
bring effective and efficient health care, which is within the reach of
the masses.
A number
of investigators have carried out surveys in the community to get the correct
idea of the magnitude of the disease problem, such surveys have been conducted
by the departments of oral health sciences, medicine, cardiology, rheumatology,
ophthalmology, paediatrics and psychiatry, etc.
The new facilities added include PET, Gamma Knife
Centre and 3T MRI. |
