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.