Hospital Services
The hospital provides a wide variety of services, ranging from primary peripheral care to superspecialty care. A newly built outpatient block caters to the general and private outpatients.
Departments and services include Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Clinical Psychology, Dermatology, ENT, Gynaecology and Obsteterics, Internal Medicine & Specialties, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Psychiatry,Physiotherapy, Radiation Therapy and surgical specialties. Superspeciality services like Oncology, Neonatology, Neurology, Nephrology, Plastic Surgery and Hematology are provided. Recently, over 10 bone marrow transplants were performed on patients ranging from 1 to 60 years of age.
The hospital's Psychiatry Department is actively combatting the substance abuse crisis in Punjab, in which the majority of Punjabi youth are addicted to drugs. The Department offers de-addiction services and has found that most patients are between 20–30 years old and are addicted to anything from cough syrup and smack to cocaine and alcohol.
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