a) Alpha Clinic
Recognising the need to improve the facilities for the private patients and provide a better hospital experience, a multidisciplinary, special Alpha Clinic was started in 2015. (Image on the left shows the Alpha Clinic atrium.)
This has significantly shortened long waiting times for outpatient appointments, consultations and investigations.
b) Critical Care
The Division of Critical Care, comprising the Medical, Surgical and Neurocritical care units, offers high-quality, affordable patient care, provides multidimensional education and publishes practice-changing research relevant to the Indian context.
Over 6,000 patients are managed annually in its various ICUs. The division is an accredited advanced training centre for the Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand and the European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine.
It has also been approved by MCI and by the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine to award the DM in Critical Care, and a diploma and a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine, respectively.
The Division also conducts courses on Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, Basic Emergency Medicine Ultrasound and Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound and short Critical Care courses run by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
c) Forensic Medicine
The Forensic Medicine department, in collaboration with other departments, including Paediatric Emergency, Child Health and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, has played a key role introducing medico-legal services sexual offence victims. The Department continues to provide medicolegal consultation to clinicians involved in the care of such victims. A secure storage unit has been procured and a specimen register is being maintained to store and dispatch medical specimens collected from the victims.
The Department has also begun planning for a CMC child advocacy centre, in consultation with the University of San Francisco, California. Its medicolegal autopsies, mandatory for many cadaver organ donors, support CMC and the Tamil Nadu Cadaver Organ Donor Transplant Programme.
