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Following are some of the facilities provided by the Indira Gandhi
Medical College, Shimla.
The hospitals attached to IGMC have total bed strength of 872. Expansion
plans are going on despite the constraint of land in hilly
terrain of Shimla. New OPD block in IGMC has been made operational
and now the patients has better sitting place in sanitized environment.
The new OPD block which is named as E block was dedicated to the
people of the Pradesh by Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Virbhadra Singh
Ji on 19th November 2005. The Kamla Nehru Hospital has now
been named as State Hospital for women and Children providing facilities
in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Neonatology. New indoor
block in main complex has been completed and a
separate examination hall has also been provided. The hostel
facility has been provided and rooms have been alloted
to students at Blessington and more blocks are to be added in very
near future.The college now provides the facilities of "Open
Heart Surgery" for the benefit the poor patients requiring
this facility, thus saving money and time.
The state
of the art MRI facility has been started this year with the dedicatication
of this facility to the people of the Pradesh by Hon'ble Chief
Minister on 26th January 2006.The computerization of IGMC is on
and soon most of the departments will be fully computerized. A
six bedded ICU is also under construction.

This college is also imparting training to Nurses, Radiographers, O.T.
Asst., Para Medical Ophthalmic Assistants and Laboratory Technicians.
Indira Gandhi Medical college is one of
the few colleges in India to have fiber optic endoscopy and
C.T. Scan equipment.Closed heart surgery including pace
maker (insertion is also available).
The college also provides :
1) Cath Lab and Dialysis facilities.
2)
Modern medical facilities in
Medicine.
Pulmonary Medicine
Surgery.
Cardiology .
Cardiothrocic Surgery.
Radiotherapy.
Neurology.
Plastic Surgery.
Paediatrics
Paediatric Surgery.
Urology .
Obst & Gynae.
Neo - Natology.
Neuro - Surgery.
Gastroenterology.
ENT
Radiology.
Nuclear Medicine .
Orthopaedics
Ophthalmology.
Psychiatry
Dermatology
3)
New facilities recently added
a) Open Heart
Surgery
b) MRI
c) Telemedicine
(Block-D)
The
above listed facilities are available in the institute which
are of all India level.
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