General Medicine

Internal medicine is the foundation on which all the medical super specialties are built. It is the first point of contact for any patient who seeks a specialist opinion as the internist has a holistic approach towards a patient, analyses various problems and then if required refers to the concerned super specialist whose highly specialized skills are used for the patients’ benefit.

The Department of Internal Medicine at Dr. Gaikwad Diabetes Centre is a thread which links with all the departments and specialties in the hospital. It is managed by an excellent and competent group of doctors including consultants, senior residents, medical officers and Post Graduate trainees.

‘Prevention is better than cure’, an exclusive department of Preventive Health checks is also managed through various health checks designed to suit the needs of different age groups. There is emphasis on early detection and management of lifestyle related diseases like Metabolic syndrome, obesity, Dyslipidaemias apart from chronic ailments like Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension and malignancies.

They specialize in maintaining long term adult wellness combining patient centered adult care of high quality, physician expertise and latest advances in medical technology.

Treatment & Services

This department provides broad range of services for diagnosis and treatment by doctors skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. It has round the clock back up from allied departments like cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, nephrology and psychiatry.

The services provided under the specialty include:
1. Critical care:

1. Intensive care treatment and management of critically ill/compromised    patients, infectious diseases, drug overdose and poisoning and other medical emergencies like Septicaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, shock of any kind, meningitis, pneumonia etc.
2. Management of chronic diseases:
   Involves multi-system discussion by senior consultant of department of medicine
   Coordination between different specialist and holistic care of patients
3. Infectious diseases like
   Malaria, Typhoid fever, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Dengue fever, influenza etc. (Investigated in depth and treated)
4. Management of drug overdoses and poisoning:
   Active involvement of faculty in providing emergency care
   Modern and world class standard intensive care unit with step down intensive care wards.
5. Environmental disease management: Includes diseases due to Industrial chemical exposure, drowning, electrical injuries, radiation injuries, snake bite, lizard bite, dog bite, insect or scorpion bite are treated in department on Internal medicine.
6. Allergy workup and management:

Allergy testing

Pre-employment checks

• They are designed to diagnose and evaluate fitness for employment by various organizations

Preventive Health:

• It has exclusive section set up with maxim “Prevention is better than cure”
• It deals with various types of preventive health checks seven days
• A comprehensive and extremely personalized health check for you and your family have been designed:
•   Executive Health Check
•  Women Wellness Check
•  Advanced Cardiac Check
• Child Health Check
• Stroke and Cancer check
• Lifestyle Counselling: We provide not only therapeutic but also preventive care and counsel patients on basic lifestyle modifications to improve their quality of life.
• Adult vaccination programme:
• Committed to providing convenient, personalized, and cost-effective immunization services.

Academic

• Department has post graduate program for medicine recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI)
• Teaching programmes are well coordinated
• Thesis work is monitored regularly