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Department
of TB & Chest Diseases of Andhra Medical
College is located in Government TB & Infectious
Diseases Hospital, Visakhapatnam, which was
started in the year 1961. The name of the hospital
was later changed to Government Hospital for
Chest and Communicable Diseases in 1997. The
hospital has 240 beds, located in four different
wards. Respiratory and Intensive Care Unit (RICU)
and emergency ward for emergency cases, MG Ward
for Non-Tuberculosis, lung diseases like Pneumonia,
Bronchial asthma, lung cancer etc. These are
separate wards for women and men. There is a
full-fledged intensive respiratory care unit
with two universal ventilators and one BIPAP
non-invasive ventilator.
There is a separate chest Out Patient Department
apart from District TB Control Center. Here,
on an average, 80 cases are diagnosed daily.
Specialist diagnostic services like Fibreoptic
bronchoscopy, Pulmonary function testing are
available and therapeutic procedures like pleural
aspiration, intercostals tube drainage and pleurodesis
are done regularly.
Department of TB & Respiratory Diseases
at the Andhra Medical College is also the largest
department amongst all the other Medical Colleges
in the entire State of Andhra Pradesh. The Department
comprises four units with four Professors, three
Associate Professors and seven Assistant Professors.
Candidates who are pursuing Diploma courses
are also admitted. An MD course in TB &
Respiratory diseases was started in 1977 for
the first time in South India and yearly two
MD candidates are being admitted. Since the
year 2001, two DNB candidates are also being
admitted yearly.
Several papers were presented from the Department
at the State-level and National-level conferences. |
