Veer Surendra Sai Medical College - Medical Services

Medical Services

Neonatal ICU

Being the Tertiary Referral Center of western Odisha, the college hospital caters to the needs of approximately 6 crore people belonging to twelve districts of Odisha, four districts of Chhattisgarh and two districts of Jharkhand. The doctors and staff at VSS Medical College Hospital strive to provide comprehensive, high quality tertiary care services including specialty and super-speciality services to all without consideration of caste, creed, religion, sex, economic status or disability.

21 specialty teaching departments and six super-specialty departments are working in the hospital, as follows:

  • Cardiology
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Hematology
  • Genito-urinary surgery
  • Neurosurgery

The main building houses the college block along with the non-linical and paraclinical departments. The outpatient department block, the inpatient departments of major departments, the blood bank etc. are located in the main campus in the hospital block. Psychiatry, pediatrics, radiotherapy and pulmonary medicine departments are a short distance from the main building.

The hospital has a total of 772 beds overall, including those in the super specialty departments. The departmental breakdown is as follows-

  • Medicine (4 units): 169
  • Pediatrics (2 units): 70
  • Pulmonary medicine: 50
  • Skin & VD: 36
  • Psychiatry: 20
  • Surgery (4 units): 161
  • Orthopedic surgery (2 units): 60
  • Ophthalmology: 44
  • Otorhinolaryngology: 38
  • Radiotherapy: 24
  • Obstetrics & ANC: 56
  • Gynecology: 34
  • Pediatric prehospital care: 10

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