About The Department 

                  The department of Pulmonary Medicine provides advanced care in the management of communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases including respiratory critical care. It caters to patients’ needs with wide range of basic and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy and pleural procedures such as flexible bronchoscopy, bronchoscopy guided lavage, biopsy, semi rigid thoracoscopy. A complete assortment of pulmonary function tests are available such as spirometry, diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO), body plethysmography, six minute walk test (6MWT), cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), impulse oscillometry, and Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO). Level I Polysomnography (sleep lab) has been started in 2024, which is the first of its kind in Government medical centers in the region. Planned future expansion plans include commencement of super specialty teaching programme of D.M in Pulmonary, Critical Care and sleep Medicine, further diversification of diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic procedures with inclusion of rigid bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), cryosurgery techniques (cryobiopsy, cryoextraction), argon plasma coagulation. The Department is actively involved in the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP) with wide range of diagnostic services such as Cy-TB and provision of tuberculosis preventive therapy, with further plans to expand the services for drug resistant tuberculosis. Department is also actively involved in research with ongoing intramural funded projects and various clinical trials.