Unit-7 - (Silver)

Introduction: Medicine Unit 7 has been   giving  excellent services   in both indoor and outdoor  of National institute of diseases and hospital under the guidance of Associate Professor Dr. S K Shahinoor Hossain. On the basis of its tremendous  hard work, and practicing evidenced based medicine this unit has proven its individuality . 

 We  are working for the best interest of patient and in the same time our moto is to ensure highest practice of evidence based medicine. Multidisciplinary teamwork is also highly appreciated in our unit. Together we are working to ensure to utmost academic environment for trainee doctors.

Structure: The unit runs under supervision of Unit chief along with one Assistant Professors, one registrar and two medical officers. 

     

Unit Chief: Associate Professor Dr. S  K Shahinoor Hossain

     

Assistant Professor    :  DrKazi Saifuddin Benoor

   

Registrar      :                  Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Kar

   

Medical officer : 

Dr. Romal Chowdhury

Dr. Tazrin Farhana

Services:

1. Academic: At present,  three courses are running.

•  MD (Pulmonology) under BSMMU and MD (Chest Diseases) under DU

•  FCPS ( Pulmonology)

•  Diploma in Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases (DTCD)

Besides these regular  respiratory courses, many other disciplines got regular training here as a part of their curriculum. As a part of  national academic institution, this unit conducts a number of teaching activities like morning sessions, seminars, conferences and journal presentations as  part of continuous medical education (CME) and also research activities. 

2.  patient management and clinical activities are run simultaneously. This unit serves the respiratory  patients through 3 models:

• Outpatient services, where over 100 patients recieve treatment per admission day

• Inpatient services, where critical patients are admitted and evaluated under close supervision in general bed and respiratory care unit.

• Pulmonary interventions: Minimally invasive procedures are done  . 

Significant Achievements: A number of minimally invasive procedures   were conducted under MU-7 . 

The unit also regularly performs remarkable work in interventional pulmonology.Such as C-TBNA,pleurodosis.

Last year, about 160fibre-optic broncoscopies were performed under MU-7.

We are also done good number of chemical pleurodosis in malignant pleural effusion.We are working in collaboration with rheumatologists in dealing with connective tissue related DPLD.We are also dealing with extrapulmonary TB in multidisciplinary approach.

This unit is giving utmost effort in diagnosing unusual lung diseases. 

Future plan: Medicine Unit-7 is committed to provide evidence based medicine  and highest level of patient care  in upcoming years. There is also addition  of a database of different diseases. This unit is hoping for    the best utilization  of pulmonary intervention as well as  upgrading  the treatment through multidisciplinary approach. 

Unit wise information

• Unit name: Medicine unit-7

• Admission day : Tuesday

• OPD room : Room no- 8

• Clinical presentation day: Wednesday