Diagnosis - Prevention | Treatment of Neuro and Spine related problems

The department of Internal Medicine is vital to the efficient functioning of the hospital.

It has two major functions

1. Treating a wide array of primarily medical diseases such as

Infectious diseases: Diagnosis and treatment of most common infectious diseases with a special interest in diseases in HIV positive patients
Metabolic diseases such as hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus and its complications
Respiratory diseases ranging from infections, to chronic airway disease, to reactive airway disease (asthma), restrictive lung diseases and more
Hepatobiliary conditions such as infectious and non-infectious hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease and so on
Gastrointestinal diseases: Infectious and non infectious enteritis, reflux syndromes, inflammatory bowel disease, malabsorption syndromes, etc.
Cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, non invasive management of valvular heart disease, ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, atherosclerotic disease
Nephrology: Management of acute and chronic renal failure with dialysis if necessary
Endocrinology: Diagnosis and management of hormonal hypo secretion and hyper secretion syndromes and their complications
Immunology: Special interest in HIV and related disease, long term management of retrovirus positive patients and complications related to HIV, vaccinations etc

2. Providing supportive services to all other departments (particularly the surgical specialities) primarily in the area of managing medical co-morbidities of patients

Whenever required, the department of medicine works closely with a number of experts in sub-specialities such as Nephrology, Cardiology, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology.

The department is also supported by a number of excellent facilities such as a fully-equipped, computerised, 24-hour clinical laboratory, 24-hour digital X-ray, 24-hour spiral CT scan, ECG, treadmill, pulmonary function testing and a modern ICU with state of the art ventilators, monitors, syringe pumps, invasive monitoring and an attached dialysis unit.