Community Medicine

Overview:

The Department of Community Medicine deals with the study of health and disease in the population or a defined community or group in order to identify their health problems and needs and to plan, implement and evaluate health programs and measures to effectively meet these needs. The department is committed to improving the quality of Teaching and Training in the Theory and Practice of Community Medicine through a Transparent and Multi-Disciplinary approach and by networking with other Service Delivery Institutions of Primary Health Care and Voluntary Organizations. It reaches out to people to provide services for the prevention of disease (such as immunization, antenatal care, health screening, etc.), promotion of health (such as safe water supply and sanitation, vector control measure, tobacco control policy, etc.), and provision of primary medical care (treatment of common ailments such as diarrhea, pneumonia, TB, leprosy, malaria, hypertension, etc.), whereas other branches of medicine largely provide diagnostic and treatment service to patients who come to seek treatment.

Facilities & Services:

• Museum with charts, diagrams, models, specimens & catalogs related to health education, sanitation, nutritional disorders, family planning, epidemiology, etc.
• Departmental Research Laboratories
• Departmental library, etc.