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Depart. of Radiodiagnosis Started in 1994

Department Medicine

Introduction to the Department

The Department of Radiodiagnosis was established in 1994 & started its services initially at polyclinic, Sector-22, Chandigarh with 01 grey scale ultrasound machine. The department was shifted to Block-A of GMCH on 30.06.1995. Initially 02 x-ray machines were installed. (01 X-ray machine with fluoroscopy and 2nd Machine was for doing General Radiography) Later on state of art high end Ultrasound Machine with Color Doppler, mammography machine and two more x-ray machines of 80KW were installed. The department was shifted to the Block-D in the year 2009 & three more X-Ray machines of 80 KW, one with Digital Fluoroscopy and one digital radiography machine were procured. In the Year 2012 State of Art High end Ultrasound Machine with Color Doppler was installed.

Later on 64 slice CT scan machine and 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner were installed in the imaging section in year 2014 & 2015 respectively. Presently the department is equipped with five 80KW X-Ray machines, eight portable X-ray Machines, five ultrasound machines with colour Doppler and 4 portable ultrasound machines with Doppler, one mammography mobile van.

The Department had been organizing Mammography camps in the different areas of the Chandigarh for early detection of carcinoma in breast, however due to COVID pandemic camps were stopped. In the year 2019, department had performed mammography and Dexa scans of 1737 and 5290 patients respectively.

Over the years, the number of X-rays, ultrasound, CT, MRI and guided interventions has increased many folds.

2. SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT

Sr.No. (as mentioned in the Notification of Public Services list)	Name of the Service	Given time limit (Working/Days/ Hours/ Minutes)	Designated officer
1	2	3	4
300	General Radiography for OPD	1day	RSO
301	Emergency & Ward Radiography	24 hrs	RSO
303	Routine Ultrasound	1day	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
304	Emergency & Ward Ultrasound	24 hrs	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
305	Color Doppler Ultrasound	On appointment	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
306	Ultrasound Guided Interventional Procedures	1day	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
307	Ultrasound Guided FNAC	On appointment	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
308	CT Guided FNAC	On appointment	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
309	Contrast CT Scan Studies for OPD Patients	On appointment	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
310	Plain CT Scan Studies for OPD Patients	On appointment	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed
311	Contrast CT Scan Studies without contrast for Patients from Emg. & Ward	24 Hrs	Consultant Incharge of the day study performed

3. Teaching courses: The B.Sc. Medical Technology (X-Ray) was started in 2009 with 12 seats per year. MD in Radiodiagnosis was started in 2016 with 04 seats which later on, increased to 10 per year in 2017

Faculty:

Sr.No.	Name	Qualification	Designation
	Dr.Ravinder Kaur	MD (Radiodiagnosis)	Professor
	Dr.Purnima Aggarwal	MD (Radiodiagnosis)	Professor
	Dr.Narinder kaur	MD (Radiodiagnosis)	Professor
	Dr. Rekha Gupta	DNB (Radiodiagnosis)	Associate Professor
	Dr. Harkirat Kaur	MD (Radiodiagnosis)	Assistant Professor
	Dr.Raveena Bedi	MD (Radiodiagnosis)	Assistant Professor