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 Dental College and Hospital, Pune
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Bharati Hospital is a well-known centre of clinical excellence located in the same premises. It is a 856 bedded multi-specialty, tertiary care hospital providing modern diagnostic as well as therapeutic facilities. Housed in a well-planned multistoried building having area of 3,35,500 sq ft, it caters to the immediate vicinity area of 25 sq. km and caters to the population of around 3,00,000 people.
All clinical departments are located in the hospital and have their respective OPDs. The wards and OPDs are well equipped with all facilities for teaching training and patient care. It provides good clinical material for teaching and training of under graduate and Post Graduate students.
Apart from the normal OPDs such as Medicine , Surgery , Orthopedics , Gynecology, Pediatrics etc. a number of specialty clinics like – Neurology, Cardiology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy, Neurosurgery, Pediatric surgery, Plastic surgery, Breast clinic, Infertility clinic, Endocrinology clinic, Pediatric endocrinology, Pediatric nephrology, Pediatric genetics, Spine clinic, Sports medicine, Aesthetic dermatology, Geriatric clinic, De-addiction clinic, Child guidance centre etc. are also run in the hospital.
The administrative sections and record rooms are fully automated. Radiology and Orthopedics departments are linked with computer retrieval systems. The central clinical Laboratories of Hospital are well equipped with latest instruments like Fully Automated analyzers, ABG Machines, Hematology counters etc.
Blood Bank is well equipped with additional facility for component storage.
There is a state of art OT complex located on the third floor of Hospital with 13 Operating Rooms. This ultra modern facility caters to General Surgery, Orthopaedics, and super specialties like neurosurgery, laparoscopic surgeries etc. All OTs are centrally air conditioned with AHU, HEPA filters multi-para monitors, and cardiac monitors and with all the modern gadgets for the patient safety.
The facility of CCTV is available for demonstration of live operative procedures for students. The students can interact and get their queries answered by discussion with operating surgeon.
The Hospital has well equipped critical care areas like the ICU, CCU, NICU and PICU facilities. Bharati Hospital is one of the few centers permitted by Govt. of Maharashtra to establish isolation ward for treating H1N1 cases in recent epidemic in Pune city. There is a separate Dialysis unit offering treatment to patients at very low cost. The Dept of Radio diagnosis offers modern diagnostic facilities like CT scan, MRI, Mammography, Color Doppler, Ultra-sonography etc.
Other facilities available in the hospital are central laundry unit, CSSD, Vermiculture Plant, Eye Bank, Ambulances, Canteen and Medical Store in subsidized rates.
Department Overview
| The department forms the back bone of the dental college as it takes care of the dental awareness and education cum motivation by extending its arms across the public as it creates a social awareness and also harnesses the need for maintenance of oral health for overall health of the individual as well as entire community. The routine procedures taken up by the department are organization of the dental awareness camps, education posters display for dental /oral hygiene maintenance etc. Special care is taken regarding the tobacco users as these patients are guided and motivated to quit the habits as they are educated regarding the harmful as well as life threatening aspects of the menace of usage of tobacco. |
| The department also organizes important days in the calendar years for eg. Anti-tobacco day, Doctors day, and AIDS day etc, to name few, apart from these the department also thrives constantly by conducting, Dental camps regularly for benefit of the society. 132 Dental camps were conducted in last 5 years. The patients from camps referred to our dental hospital and those patients who reported were treated free of cost. Various patients of low socio-economic background are treated free of cost. 72734 patients in the last 5 years were treated free of cost, 296545 patients were treated with subsidized fees. The staff and students of all units of Bharati Vidyapeeth are given treatment with treatment fee concessions. |
| Dentistry is a multidisciplinary field pertaining to the treatment modalities rendered to the patients. Every department is inter-related to each other, and work in tandem with other departments. Hence it is always important that every staff member from individual departments should be well versed of the various treatments offered in different departments. In this endeavour every staff member is not only encouraged to attend conferences and workshops pertaining to his field but at the same time is also encouraged to attend seminars and workshops and continuing dental education programmes of other allied subjects. |
| While rendering the treatment to various patients the diagnosis and treatment planning is done with accordance to the opinions of different department specialist whose opinions become an important consideration in the success of the treatment. |