Most hospitals now have an OPD. The advantage of OPD is that much of the investigative unit and curative work can be done there without admitting the client, thus curtailing medical expenses. The scope of OPD includes the following: 1. Consultation, investigation, procedures, specialty services. 2. Preventive and promotive health care: Clinics, which include: diabetic, antenatal, postnasal and under five. 3. Rehabilitation services (physiotherapy, occupational therapy etc) 4. Health education 5. Counseling

If OPD is the show window of the hospital, the IP is the heart of the hospital. The IP service provides lodging, diet and medical care. Conveniently, it can be divided into: Wards and rooms Nurses station Dietary services Sanitary facilities and other requirements Ward can be Intensive Care Wards (ICU) Intermediate Care Wards

Our blood bank with whole blood and blood components / apheresis is available. Blood bank also has apheresis unit for single donor platelets (SDP). It is available for 24 hours to cater to the needs of critical patients due to accidents, trauma, emergency obstrectical care during the emergency department situations by National Disasters / Calamities for the disaster management, the seasonal high morbility due to conditions like Dengue fever and other hamorrhagenic conditions. Enough stock of component and whole blood is skept ready. The facilities for screening of HIV, HBV and HCV, VDRL, are available as per the protocols.

This consists of one or more operation theatres and other facilities. OT complex must be located in a place where there is easy and quick access to the delivery suite. These should be four zone – outer zone, clean zone, sterile zone, disposal zone. There should be a sterilization room with an autoclave. The number of OT depends on many factors. There should be an arrangement for good lighting and ventilation. Delivery suite is the place where births take place. The delivery suite is divided into three zones are first stage room, second stage room, delivery room. The room should have good lighting and ventilation. It should have adequate number of staff.

Pharmacy is a crucial factor in medical factor. It should be planned and organized well. The pharmacy department has the responsibility for selecting purchasing, compounding, storing and dispensing all drugs and medications. The pharmacy should be under the supervision of a registered pharmacist.

Health care providers may be unfamiliar with the workings of the pathology laboratory. The delivery of a specimen to the pathology laboratory initiates a complex series of events resulting in a pathologic diagnosis/interpretation. Clinical Pathology is responsible for tests performed from blood, urine, and other body fluids. We perform close to 2 million laboratory tests per year in the sections of clinical chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, and immunohematology (blood banking).