HM Patel Centre for Medical Care and Education has five Institutions under its umbrella-

        The Centre is at a distance of 8 kilometres from Anand and is 45 kilometers away from Baroda and 80 kilometers from Ahmedabad.

Pramukhswami Medical College

        The College was started in 1987 and is affiliated to the Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar. It has been accorded recognition by the Medical Council of India. It admits 100 students every year for a five-and-a-half year course leading to degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S). The College has the state-of-art research and development facilities, a Library and other infrastructure support systems. The College places particular emphasis on community medicine. Its Department of Preventive & Social Medicine successfully implemented a Family Welfare Education & Services Project (which was sponsored by UNFPA & AIDAB) till 1995. The project aimed to reduce the high rate of infant and maternal mortality in 30 villages of Anand and Kheda districts.

       Other community outreach programmes include an Integrated Rural Community Health Project (at Village Ardi), an Urban Health Centre (at Anand) and an Adolescent Counseling Clinic (at the University Health Center). The department organizes School Health Programmes and periodic multi-diagnostic mass screening camps in the surrounding villages. The hospital is the referral hospital for Tribhuvandas Foundation, the largest non-government organization in Asia, working in the field of maternal and infant care in over 600 villages of the district. The college has a dedicated faculty, some of whom have won National and International acclaim. More than 450 original research papers written by staff members have been published in reputed scientific journals in India and abroad.

Shree Krishna Hospital:

       The 550-bed Shree Krishna Hospital offers a complete array of curative, diagnostic, therapeutic and educational facilities in a range of specialised fields. It has well-equipped laboratories, operation theatres, medical, surgical, paediatric and neo-natal ICUs, Trauma Centre and a CT Scan Centre, Mammography unit and IITV. The Hospital's ICUs have met, to a large extent, a need greatly felt by the region to have well-equipped facilities for handling emergency cases requiring intensive care. The ICUs have advanced equipment for centralised monitoring, artificial ventilation and dialysis.

        The Hospital has been recognised by the Government of Gujarat for treating medico-legal cases and therefore, all accident cases occurring within a radius of 25 km. are brought here. A Cancer Project is amongst the latest areas of expansion within the institution. With Radiotherapy Unit becoming functional shortly, it is expected that there will be a new dimension to the already diverse group of patients being catered to at the centre.  The Department of Pathology has a staff of two Professors, two Associate Profesors, four Assistant Professors and six Tutors. Apart from routine clinical pathology work, the department also has facilitites for doing haematology work up with a special emphasis on anaemias and haemoglobinopathies. There is a fully functional Histopathology Section equipped with Cryostat. Aspiration and Exfoliative Cytology are the other sections in the department. The department boasts of the only Telepathology Unit in the state, with collaboration with the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Approximately 75,000 Haematopathology investigations, 1,500 biopsies and 2,000 cytology samples are received every year.

        The Blood Bank, named after Shri A.D. Gorwala - one of our finest civil servants and a close friend of our founder Chairman has facilities for storage, testing - both serological and microbial, and cross-matching of blood. The Blood Bank is one of the best in Gujarat. It collects over 4,000 units of blood every year. Soon, it would add a plasma separation unit, which would help enhance its services even further. All these services are supported by administrative departments, which are now in the process of full-fledged computerisation. Even the clinical services would soon be integrated through computers. The Medical Records Office, a vital component of any Hospital Management System, is being computerised too so as to be able to generate valuable epidemiological data. Billing and Accounts Departments have already been computerised, and so have the Purchase Department and Stores - Pharmacy, Medical and General.

Shri GH Patel School of Nursing

       The School of nursing was started in 1980. It offers 25 seats for its three-year General Nursing and Midwifery course and is affiliated to the Sardar Patel University. The School was set up with the primary aim of meeting the requirement of nurses at the Hospital, an aim that has been successfully achieved, as over 90% of the nurses so far graduated have been employed by the Hospital. Till recently, the School admitted students free of cost. The high deficit being incurred has, however, compelled the School to start charging a modest fee for admissions. Students who are unable to afford the fee, especially those that come from the tribal and backward districts of the State, are still being admitted without any charges.

Smt LP Patel Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology

       The Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology was started in 1981 to meet the hospital's requirement of laboratory technicians, especially to provide paramedical services. It offers 60 seats for its one year course which is affiliated to and recognised by the Sardar Patel University. The Institute has introduced an on-the-job training programme for its students under which the students on merit are given six months in-lab training at the Shree Krishna Hospital.

Shri KM Patel Institute of Physiotherapy

       The Institute of Physiotherapy was started in 1998. It offers 30 seats for its four-and-a-half year Bachelor of Physical Therapy (BPT) course affiliated to the Sardar Patel University. The Institute has advanced equipment such as Laser, Microwave Diathermy, EMG/NCV, Short-wave Diathermy, Transcultaneous Nerve Stimulator, Ultrasound Infra-red, Muscle Stimulator, a wax bath unit and cervical traction. Cases of neck and back pain, arthritis, spondylitis, sprains, frozen shoulder, tendinitis and polio are routinely treated here.

The HM Patel Institute of Post Graduate Studies

       The Institute runs 3 year degree courses in Anaesthesiology, Community Medicine, General Medicine, Paediatrics, Radio-diagnosis, General Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Orthopedics and Otorhinolaryngology. Two-year diploma courses are conducted in Anaesthesiology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Orthopedics, Otorhinolaryngology, Radio-diagnosis, Community Medicine and Paediatrics. MCI's Letter of Permission for all the courses have been received. So far, the MD (Medicine), MS (ENT), MD (Anaesthesia), DLO, DA (Anaesthesia) courses have been recognised by the Medical Council of India. More details about Charutar Arogya Mandal are available at www.charutarhealth.org.

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