Community Medicine, also known as Public Health or Social and Preventive Medicine, focuses on studying health and disease patterns within specific communities or groups. Its objectives include health promotion, disease prevention, community engagement, equitable access to healthcare, and an emphasis on understanding disease epidemiology. Unlike other medical branches that primarily offer diagnostic and treatment services, community medicine places significant importance on preventive measures. The department carries out its primary objectives byteaching and training undergraduate (MBBS) and postgraduate (MD) students and interns, providing them with community-oriented health expertise.The department also collaborates with the various stakeholders toimplement various National Health Programs.Research in the field of public and community health has always been priority of the department. The department has a museum with specimens and models related to the community medicine and the departmental library has a rich collection of resources of knowledge that includes journals, books and completed studies.
Community health services are provided through the field practice area of the department – UHTC (Urban health training centre) in Nuh and RHTC (Rural health training centre) in Nagina. At these centres, the trained staff provides the following services:
Regular OPD services
Immunization services
Maternal care and services
Screening and diagnostic tests
Health promotion and education sessions
Other preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative services
The special clinics are dedicated on specific days of the week at UHTC and RHTCproviding special services:
Specialist clinic (ENT, ophthalmology, dermatology)
NCD clinic
Under-5 clinic
Professor & Officiating Director GMC, Koriyawas
Reg. No. : MCI 08-6306
Professor
Reg. No. :MCI 11-10315
Professor
Reg. No. : MCI 13-14204
Epidemiologist cum Professor
Reg. No. : MCI 12-12226
Associate Professor
Reg. No. : MCI 13-14942
Statistician cum Associate Professor
Reg. No. : NA
Lady Medical Officer
Reg. No. : MP-10941
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) fundedmulticentric project titled as ‘Adaptive model to strengthen facility-based emergency care system for providing quality emergency care among red triage patients (time sensitive and other emergencies) at all levels of healthcare facilities to develop a high quality standardized and integrated emergency care system’. (Principal investigator- Dr. Pawan Kumar Goel).
National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) funded project titled as ‘Verbal autopsy of deaths of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) at Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) centre in Haryana’. (Principal investigator- Dr. Abhishek Singh).
National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP)funded extramural project titled as ‘Study on operational aspects of ‘Nikshay Poshan Yojana’ for patients with tuberculosis in Southern Haryana’. (Principal investigator- Dr. Abhishek Singh).
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) funded extramural research project entitled as ‘Community sensitization for indoor residual spray (IRS) in Mewat.’
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project - ‘Impact Assessment study of Rotavirus Vaccine.’
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project –‘Intussusception Surveillance linked to Impact Assessment study of Rotavirus Vaccine’
Pfizer Global Medical Grants funded project –‘Pneumococcal Vaccine Impact Study in Haryana.’
Pfizer Global Medical Grants funded project –‘Burden of Pneumococcal Disease among under five children and elderly population in Punjab, Chandigarh and Haryana, India: Retrospective Surveillance Data Analysis.’
Feasibility testing of high sensitivity diagnostics and information technology in containing malaria in Nuh district (Mewat) of Haryana
Human monoclonal to COVID – 19
Other intramural research projects were also done by the faculty of the department with active participation of medical students under STS scheme of ICMR.
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