Pulmonary Medicine










Services
Out-Patient Services
The Out-Patient Department located in the Ground floor of the Block ‘D’ functions on all working days of the hospital and caters to an average of 150 patients per day who come not only from the surrounding locale but from the far villages in the neighbouring Tamilnadu too. The entire process of patient registration, referral for investigation and admission (if deemed necessary) is fully computerized. The cases catered to in the OPD include Bronchial Asthma, COPD, tuberculosis, interstitial lung diseases, pleural diseases etc.
In-Patient Services
The Department of Pulmonary Medicine caters to inpatient care through 60 exclusive beds in the General ward—30 for Male patients and 30 for Female patients. Affordable patients are catered to through Special wards with all required infrastructure. The department also has exclusive Isolation rooms for Infectious cases.
Special Clinics
The department offers specialized services either standalone or in collaboration with other specialities through the special clinics run on the scheduled days.
- SPIROMETRY
- BRONCHOSCOPY
- ASTHMA and ALLERGY CLINIC
- SMOKING CESSATION CLINIC
- BREATHE FREE CLINIC
- LUNG CANCER CLINIC
Specialized Services
- Pleurocentesis
- Pleural Biopsy
- Lung FNAC & Biopsy
- Intercostal Tube Drainage
- Flexible Bronchoscopy
- Allergy Skin Testing
- Allergy Immunotherapy
- Thoracoscopy
- Type 1 in-house fully attended POLYSOMNOGRAPHY