Department of Pulmonary Medicine is a tertiary referral centre for pulmonary diseases. The department has done pioneering work & benefited patients in the field of tuberculosis, asthma, allergy, COPD, lung cancers, and infectious lung diseases.
Pulmonary medicine is a broad specialty in medicine. It deals primarily with diseases afflicting the lungs. It also encompasses areas like critical care, sleeps medicine. The specialty in its formative years dealt mainly with tuberculosis. However; in recent years it has made forays into areas of diagnostics procedures & interventions like bronchoscopy & thoracoscopy. The discipline is a rapidly growing specialty with immense promise and hope for the future. It also works in tandem with the government to control tuberculosis as a part of the NTEP strategy.
Pulmonologists have made noteworthy contributions to society in dealing with the menace of tuberculosis over the years. The profile of a pulmonologist is gradually changing to combating allergies, smoking-related lung ailments & occupational lung diseases. Pulmonologists are branching into specialties like sleep medicine, critical care, bronchoscopists & allergologist.
The Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College and University, Sri R L Jalappa Hospital is unique in many ways. It is serving the people of Kolar and surrounding districts with respiratory diseases for the last 2 decades it has got a well- equipped Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT) Laboratory, Lung Cancer Clinic, NTEP unit as well as a vast array of other facilities that are available for patient care and research. We continue to move forward with the Institute in the service of the country.