The Department of General Medicine at Touch Hospital aims to provide the highest standards of Medical excellence in comprehensive preventive, diagnostic and curative medical services for all patients. We aim to provide quality primary and specialty care to adults. The department effectively delivers the most updated evidence based diagnostic and therapeutic care for all patients. Our doctors are specially trained to manage seriously ill patients suffering from advanced illness and/ or diseases of more than one system.
Touch Hospital is staffed by highly qualified doctors of national and international repute. This department provides:
General Medical Care to adult patient through
- O.P.D
- Specialty Clinic
- I.P.D
General Medicine Services
- Care for patients with undefined symptoms and complaints (shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain, back pain, etc.)
- Care for patients with chronic medical issues (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, emphysema, etc.)
- Comprehensive management of medical needs for hospitalized patients
- Disease prevention and health promotion
Advanced General Medicine
Doctors in this department are trained to care for patients with multi-system diseases. They work closely with specialists, incorporating their advice in developing and implementing a treatment plan for people with more complex medical problems.
The list of General Medicine Services Provided at Touch Hospitals are:
Key Conditions:
- All cases of Diabetes (Type-1 DM/Type-2 DM/Gestational Diabetes) and all Diabetes Complications
- Neurological Emergencies (Stroke, Epilepsy, Parkinsons disease etc)
- Gastrointestinal Disorders (APD, GERD, Alcohol Liver Disease, Cirrhosis of liver etc)
- Thyroid Disorders (Hypothyroidism/Hyperthyroidism)
- Obesity (lifestyle clinics)
- Day to Day Infections
- Geriatric Care
- All Lung Diseases including Lung Infections, asthma, allergies, TB, leural effusions and sleep disorders
Sub Specialities
- Allergy
- Asthma
- Pyrexia
- Diarrhoea
- Dehydration
- Upper respiratory tract infections
- Diabetes mellitus
- Dengue fever
- General weakness
- Hypertension
Our services include:
- Treatment and management of hypertension
- Treatment & management of diabetes
- Treatment for high cholesterol
- Septic shock
- Pesticide poisoning
- Drug poisoning
- Occupational health assessments
- Preoperative assessment and care
Department Highlights:
- 24×7 availability of doctors
- Same-day appointments
- A network of quality specialists under one roof
Critical care: Intensive care treatment and management of critically ill/compromised patients, infectious diseases, drug overdose and poisoning and other medical emergencies like Septicaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, shock of any kind, meningitis, pneumonia etc.
Management of chronic diseases:
Involves multi-system discussion by senior consultant of department of medicine. Coordination between different specialist and holistic care of patients
Infectious diseases like:
Malaria, Typhoid fever, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Dengue fever, influenza etc. (Investigated in depth and treated)
Management of drug overdoses and poisoning:
Active involvement of faculty in providing emergency care. Modern and world class standard intensive care unit with step down intensive care wards. Efficient nursing care
Environmental disease management:
Includes diseases due to Industrial chemical exposure, drowning, electrical injuries, radiation injuries, snake bite, lizard bite, dog bite, insect or scorpion bite are treated in department on Internal medicine.
Allergy workup and management:
Allergy testing
Preventive Health:
- It has exclusive section set up with maxim “Prevention is better than cure”
- It deals with various types of preventive health checks seven days a week
- A comprehensive and extremely personalized health check for you and your family have been designed:
Preventive Health Packages:
- Executive Health Check
- Women Wellness Check
- Advanced Cardiac Check
- Child Health Check
- Stroke and Cancer check
- Lifestyle Counselling: We provide not only therapeutic but also preventive care and counsel patients on basic lifestyle modifications to improve their quality of life.
- Adult vaccination programme:
- Committed to providing convenient, personalized, and cost-effective immunization services.
The department is manned by physicians with expertise in ventilatory care and provides advanced care with the support of the hospital infrastructure including intensive care units of different specialties, state of art monitoring equipments and technology, bronchoscopy, endoscopy and a 24 x 7 support of radiology, modern laboratory, high-end imaging facilities, a 24 x 7 operational Blood Bank, an extremely busy dialysis unit and emergency unit. The aim is to provide long term comprehensive care and manage both common and complex illnesses.