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Department of General Medicine
Year of establishment: 1960
Department has been a dynamic department since its
inception. Specialties of Tuberculosis and Chest diseases, Dermatology
and Venereology, Psychiatry, Neurology, Nephrology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology
and Endocrinology were created, which have now separated out from Department
of General Medicine as full-fledged departments. The research activities
of the department are in the areas of visceral leishmaniasis, leptospirosis,
clinical, immunological studies and drug trials on various rheumatologic
disorders, mutational analysis in coagulation disorders and chronic haemolytic
anemias. The attendance of outdoor patients is 50,000/year, indoor services
4000 and Bed occupancy 95%. There are dedicated clinics for treatment
of Rheumatologic/Haematological/ Geriatric/ Oncology and HIV/AIDS. The
Department has organized a large number of national and International
conferences including APICON 2003. Faculty is on Advisory Committees of
various National and International bodies including WHO.
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