Infectious Diseases Services

Field of infectious diseases has a very vast and important role in functioning of the hospitals. It is a subspecialty of internal medicine and an Infectious Diseases (ID) specialist undergoes a dedicated training for the same for 2-3 years after his/her post-graduation (MD) in internal medicine.

Scope of Services

• Management of patients with infections due to multi-drug resistant organisms
• Fever of unknown origin
• Infections in immunocompromised hosts
• Febrile Neutropenia
• Vaccinations
• Formation of hospital antibiotic policy
• Infection control practices
• Hospital staff health (Needle stick Injury/Body Fluid Exposure/Exposure to a highly infectious patient)
• Outbreak management
• Antibiotic Stewardship (appropriate antibiotic usage)
• Solving diagnostic dilemmas

As RGCI&RC is a dedicated cancer centre, patients are immunocompromised and prone to many infections. Role of an infectious disease specialist becomes all the more important in RGCIRC. He/she not only helps in treating these patients with infections but also helps them in preventing such infections.

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MBBS, MD (Medicine)

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Dr. Nitin Bansal Infectious Diseases