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The Institute is continuing to achieve the
objective of service to the community, care of the needy and research for the
good of all. The Institute has shown the way to the entire nation in the
sphere of health care and medical training.
Patient Care
1. The Nehru Hospital, the most vital part of the
Institute, caters to the need of very sick and has about 50,000 annual
admissions. The Institute has important diagnostic and therapeutic facilities,
which are important compliments to the parallel clinical specialties.
2. A comprehensive emergency department (140 bedded) with divisions catering to
medical, pediatric, surgical emergencies and trauma round the clock is a
remarkable feature of the Institute. The new emergency block has attached
laboratory, X-ray and operation theatre facilities. The department of
Radiodiagnosis and Imaging has facilities for MRI, CT scan, ultrasound and
caters to the emergency services besides the routine service.
3. The Institute is actively involved in the community health services. The
department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health along with departments of Pediatrics, Medicine,
and Obstetrics and Gynecology are busy conducting studies pertaining to the
community health needs.
4. Advanced Pediatric Centre (300 bedded) is a multispeciality facility
dedicated to the care of children. The centre which was inaugurated in 1997 by
Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then president of has been equipped with
modern facilities for treatment, teaching and research. The centre provides a 24
hours emergency service and a pediatric intensive care unit. It has a separate
pediatric outpatient department. The centre provides speciality services in
the field of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Allergy and Immunology,
Pulmonology, Cardiology, Genetics and metabolic diseases. The department also has
a super specialty of Neonatology with Neonatal Intensive Care facilities.
5. Super speciality of Gastroenterology is housed in a separate building with
all modern facilities for treatment, teaching and research. The department has
its own laboratory facilities - biochemistry, enzymology, microbiology,
virology, radiology and pathology services. In addition, the department has a
full-fledged section of pediatric gastroenterology.
6. Drug de-addiction and treatment centre has well functioning outpatient,
inpatient, and outreach components. Active liaison with fellowship groups and
other centres is maintained which in turn helps in the aftercare,
rehabilitation, and manpower development.
7. Round the clock emergency services are provided for issue of blood and blood
components. Mobile unit of the department of Transfusion Medicine conducts
voluntary blood donation camps within and outside Chandigarh.
8. New OPD Block houses most of the out patient departments which
are fully functional. It also has physiotherapy services, minor operation
theatres for short surgical procedures. It also houses the DOTS centre for
giving supervised treatment to patients of tuberculosis.
9. Advanced Eye Centre was
inaugrated by Sh. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Hon'ble Vice President of India in the
august presence of Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss Hon'ble Minister of Health and Family
Welfare on Saturday, March 18, 2006. The Advanced eye Centre has introduced
several new advanced technologies, some of which are among the first in India
and include Optical Coherence Tomography, Heidelberg Retinal Tomography, Prefrential Hyperacuity Perimetery, Confocal Specular
Microscopy, Eye Bank Specular Microscopy, Fluorescein and Indocyanine
Green Angiography, Variety of Lasers, Computerized Perimeteric Techniques,
Frequency Doubling Technique for Perimetery, High Resolution
Ultrasonography, Ultrasonic Biomcroscopy, Corneal Topography, Automated
Computerized Refractors and highly sophisticated electrophysiological
techniques. All sophisticated ocular surgical procedures viz: IOL Implants
for complicated cataracts, Lasik Surgery for removal of refractive errors,
Trauma Surgery, Oculoplastic Surgical Procedures, Endoscopic DCR surgery,
Galucoma and Vitreo Retinal Surgery including Laser Surgery for premature
babies even in the incubators are routinely performed. Neoadjuvant
Chemotherapy for Retinoblastoma has been introduced.
Teaching / Training
The Institute has met the
objective of providing educational facilities for the training of personnel both
medical and non-medical in all the important branches of health activity. The
Institute has attained self sufficiency in postgraduate medical education and
runs a continuous, full time residency program in most of the specialties of medical sciences e.g. medicine, surgery, pathology, etc.
There is a full fledged institute of
nursing called National Institute of Nursing Education (NINE) which imparts
quality nursing education.
Research
The Institute is involved in research for the rural
and community related environment and health problems. There has been a steady
progress in developing new research methods and strategies for the benefit of
patients. The focus of research has been on tackling diseases like diarrhoea,
tuberculosis, malaria, amoebiasis, HIV, leprosy, hepatitis, anaemia, leukaemia,
hypertension, atherosclerosis, thalassemia, dental caries, stone disease,
cancer, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Various modern techniques are available to conduct studies like flow cytometry,
chromatography (HPLC, FPLC), molecular biology, and genetic studies.
Every
year nearly 400 research articles are published for the institute in national and international
journals.
A
number of departments have been designated as research centres by WHO and
various national agencies. WHO designated Centres include:
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Clinical research in
human reproduction (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
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Mental Health Centre (Psychiatry)
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Quality Control in Clinical Chemistry (Biochemistry)
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Coagulation (Haematology)
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Clinical Parasitology
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Blood Transfusion and Haematology
The
Institute has been recognized by National AIDS Control Organisation and has a
voluntary testing and counseling centre (VCTC) located at the fourth floor of
the research A block. The institute provides free drugs for treatment of HIV
patients.
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