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The hospital attached to
the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical
University is called the Gandhi
Memorial & Associated Hospitals This is
really a hospital complex spread over an area of
88,000 sq mts with a conglomeration of buildings
housing various departments and their respective
wards.Besides the main or original hospital
building which houses the Radiodiagnosis,
Radiotherapy, Orthopedic Surgery and ENT
Departments and also the offices and surgical
wards, there are separate buildings for the
Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases, Medicine,
Pediatrics, Ophthalmics, Obstetrics &
Gynecology, Surgery
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(General, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery,
Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Oncology and
Urology), Psychiatry, Geriatric Mental
Health, Cardiology, Neurology and Pathology,
Rehabilitation & Physical Medicine,
Orthopedics and Rheumatology Departments.
There are also separate Outpatients Department
and a new Surgical Emergency & Trauma
Centre. The total number of beds are 2424
with a bed occupancy rate of 90-100%.
The annual outpatient attendance is about
510,000 and the indoor admissions number
about 51,000/year. The hospital provides
speciality services in all branches of
medicine. Patients are attended to and
admissions are made round the clock. This
is a Medical University hospital where
all medical, surgical and nursing care
was provided free of cost. However, charges
were introduced in August 2000. Patients
now have to pay a nominal charge for admission
to hospital and for investigations and
procedures done here. In addition, patients
may have to buy drugs and disposables
as the hospital budget does not allow
for all medicines to be supplied free
to the patients. All the faculty members
of the clinical departments of CSM Medical
University are attached to the hospital
as visiting consultants. Besides, the
hospital has its own full time staff -
administrative and technical. Thus the
hospital is managed by some 250 Consultants,
500 Resident Doctors, 300 nurses, 63 Pharmacists,
100 technical & paramedical, 50 clerical
and 1000 ancillary (Class IV) staff.
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