The practice of managing, preventing, treating and diagnosing all adult health conditions is termed General Medicine. As the first point of contact, the Department of General Medicine often facilitates directing patients to specialists if a medical condition needs advanced treatment or wherever required. Employing advanced diagnostic methods, the severity and/or cause of a condition is ascertained before an individual can be referred to a specialist if required.

General medicine is the very basic requirement of any healthcare organisation and its practitioners promote general disease prevention methods and champion a healthy society. The Department of General Medicine at Gleneagles Hospitals offers a multi-disciplinary approach to provide a holistic and comprehensive management of diseases.

The well-equipped labs and well-appointed wards with compassionate clinical personnel ensure that the patients receive the best healing atmosphere. The strong inter-professional team promotes a collaborative approach to problem-solving. The quality improvement team is finding new ways to provide the best care to the patients for a healthy life.

The range of diseases managed by the Department includes – general sickness to the management of chronic and complex diseases. Some of the services rendered at the Department are given below:

Primary care, including routine check-ups

• Diabetes management
• Mental health assessment
• Education programs
• Blood Pressure and related conditions
• Stomach pain, vomiting, Diarrhoea and Jaundice
• Respiratory diseases like Asthma, allergies, Lung infection, cough, Sinusitis, Tuberculosis, and Pneumonia

We at Gleneagles Hospitals aim to adopt collaborative and comprehensive treatment measures to give you your normal life as quickly as possible.