General Medicine - MMHRC

Total care that you can count on.

The Department of General Medicine at MMHRC handles numerous cases each day. This includes patients referred to with conditions difficult to diagnose or ailments that are found to be treatment-resistant. The department diagnoses multisystem ailments and provides holistic treatment to patients across all age groups. This includes cases like asthma, allergy, connective tissue disorders and rheumatic disease, respiratory diseases, COPD, bronchitis, tuberculosis, tropical infectious rare diseases like melioidosis, hematology related ailments, geriatric care and many more. After the beginning of covid pandemic we have successfully treated more than thousands of covid cases.

Education:

Our PG training program is widely sought after for its depth of practical training. The program is recognized by the Diplomate National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, General Medicine and Family Medicine. The course duration is 3 years and post graduates also have rotations in superspeciality departments such as nephrology, cardiology, neurology, pulmonology.

Sub-specialities of general medicine:

  • Hematology
  • Geriatrics
  • Respiratory medicine
  • Asthma and allergy
  • Infectious diseases
  • Pleurocentesis, Pericardiocentesis, Lumbar puncture, CSF analysis
  • Bone marrow aspiration
  • Biopsy
  • Lung biopsy
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Tuberculosis clinic
  • Tube thoracostomy
  • Comprehensive asthma care clinic
  • Computerized pulmonary lung function test
  • Pleural biopsy by Cope & Abrams needles

Procedures performed:

  • Bone marrow transplantation
  • Aspiration / Biopsy
  • Lumbar puncture
  • Pleural aspiration
  • Ascitic fluid tapping
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Dr. P. Krishnamoorthi

MD (Gen. Med.), FCGP, FIAMS

Senior Consultant

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Dr. B. Purushothaman

MD (Gen. Med.)

Consultant

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Dr. P. Praneetha

MBBS, DNB (Gen. Med.)

Consultant

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Dr. S. Sivakumar

MBBS, DNB (Family Medicine)

Sr. Registrar

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DR. Anusha Gopi

MBBS., DNB.,(Gen.Med)

Consultant

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DR. R. Kavinkumar

MBBS,

Registrar

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Dr. Bharath Siluveri

MBBS,

Registrar

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