General Medicine
Name Of The Department :
PG Department Of General Medicine , SCB MCH, Cuttack
Departmental Overview
The Department of Medicine is one of the largest in SCBMC, Cuttack. It has 320 general beds, 30 beds for infectious diseases and diarrhea and provisions for treating heat stroke and different epidemic diseases including dengue. It has a state of the art ICU with 40 beds which is currently catering to the COVID-19 patients.
The department has a large number of trained manpower which includes 4 Professors, 7 Associate professors, 16 Assistant professors and 16 Senior Residents. All have expertise in different fields. The department enrolls the largest number of post-graduate students in a year i.e. 29 and therefore in three (3) years there are 87 postgraduate students, which is the largest anywhere in the country.
There is a huge patient load which has been increasing year by year, which is to the tune of 2,63,133 OPD in the year 2019-20 and 36700 patients admitted in indoors in the year 2019-20; The patients treated in the department of Medicine included patients referred from all parts of the state, neighboring states as well as all parts of the country.
| Department Started : | Department Started By Whom : | Current Hod : |
| 1944 | Prof Dr. A N Das | Prof. (Dr). Saroj Kumar Tripathy |
Facilities Available Including Investigation :
OPD, Indoor and ICU services
