General Medicine & Geriatrics

Department of general medicine including geriatric medicine and family medicine is one of the most active departments in our Hospital. We provide general medical and speciality medical services across all age groups and all specialities. The Department is headed by Dr. N. Raja, Senior consultant in geriatric medicine and Senior Consultants, supported by a dedicated team of medical ofcers, physician assistants and trained staff nurses. We provide OPD and IPD services including ICU services, providing necessary Emergency treatment procedures such as ICD insertion, Haemodialysis, Pleural tapping, and Articial Ventilation around the clock. We also a specialised services like geriatric immunisation services, homecare services, and separate stroke unit services for emergencies around the clock. we also provide preventive healthcare services like master health checkups (onsite) and regular medical camps as part of our CSR activities.

Dr. N. Raja & Dr. Charunagarjun

Since its inception in 2018, Preethi Hospital has been the fist to have a specialist and fully qualified geriatrician. We are proud to say that we are the first to have exclusive specialist geriatric services, both IP and OPD, and a separate dedicated hospital block, including ward and ICU facilities. “HOSPITAL AT HOME”. We are also the first to introduce and provide home care services, mainly for the geriatric and other patients. Our geriatric medicine department is headed by Dr. N. Raja, is a pioneer in both geriatric, general medicine including diabetology, we have specialized nurses, trained in geriatric medicine for IP/OP/ICU services.

Our geriatric medicine OPD is located in 1st floor of the hospital block. We have all diagnostics and treatment facilities like lab services, radiology services, physiotherapy department, blood bank, pharmacy, nutrition & dietician services, also other specialty and super specialty services (OPD/IPD) by expert consultants as well as trained team, specialized nurses and intensivists, medical officers also other support services including ambulance and transport facility.

Our hospital team regularly conducts general medicine and specialist camps with expert consultants for early identification diagnosis and treatment for both communicable and non-communicable diseases. We are regularly doing this as a notion of our social commitment to serve back the society, we are regularly conducting specialist clinics like diabetic clinic, stroke clinic, asthma clinic etc. and provide consultation and treatment by super specialists. With the clear vison and direction from our Chairman and Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, we are planning to expand our services to more and more and needy people.

We aim to develop new services like diabetic podiatric services, separate OPD and In Patient services for Parkinson disease, Dementia (Alzheimer’s) soon. We seek your continued patronage to serve more of you in a better way in future.

Challenges and Sucesses

Methotrexate Induced Neutropenic Sepsis

An 80-year-old female who was on IV methotrexate for Rheumatoid arthritis (self-medicated), was brought to the hospital with C/o oral ulcer and pain during swallowing (dysphagia). On evaluation the patient was found to have sepsis (oral mucositis with oral thrush), which showed pancytopenia, the patient was treated in IMCU (Isolation/barrier nursing) with a diagnosis of neutropenic SEPSIS/Epesophageal candidiasis started on V antifungal antibiotics, neuroprotective, colony-stimulating factor and multiple blood componenttransfusions, with serial monitoring of CBC. The patient improved symptomatically and discharged well.

Hypercoagulable State

AA 60-year-old female presented with Recurrent VTE/pulmonary Embolism. The patient was found to have protein C and protein S.

Anaemia Hidden Cause

A 75 years old patient of Chronic Kidney Disease Stage II, presented with multiple admission for Anaemia and failure. All mutine evaluation tke CECT abdomen and Chest, UGI scopy, coloscopy were negative. Since stool occult blood was positive capsule endoscopy was done and found to have Internal bleeding with interval bleeding at D3 segment of duodenum, due to Telengectasia. Patient underwent argon plasma coagulation, bleeding was stopped and patientis improved and discharged well.