Silchar Medical College & Hospital

Silchar Medical College Hospital

The Silchar Medical College and Hospital was established in the year 1968. Since its inception, the SMC Hospital is rendering its yeomen’s services to the suffering community of the entire southern part of Assam and its neighbouring states. In the year 1971, the Civil Hospital of Silchar, situated in the heart of the city about 6 kms away from the permanent college building, was taken over as the teaching hospital of the Silchar Medical College. Thereafter, in 1977-78, the main hospital building complex at its permanent site was commissioned.

The huge three-storied hospital building houses the following departments including their out-patient departments (O.P.D.), wards, operation theatres, X-Rays, Laboratory facilities etc.:

1. Casualty Department
2. Various O.P.D.s
3. Obstetrics & Gynaecology Dept.
4. Medicine Dept.
5. Radiology Dept.
6. E.N.T. Dept.
7. Ophthalmology Dept.
8. Orthopaedic Dept.
9. General Surgery Dept.
10. Paediatrics Dept.
11. Cardiology Dept.
12. Dermatology Dept.
13. Psychhiatry Dept.
14. Clinical Pathology Dept.
15. Blood Bank

There is another separate three-storied block for the Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology. The Microbiology dept. will be shifted to its permanent building as soon as it is commissioned.

The departments of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases as well as the isolation wards are situated in separate buildings within the college campus a little away from the main hospital building.

The Central Library of the college is presently housed in the ground floor of the main hospital building. It is proposed to be shifted to its permanent site in the first and

Total Hospital Beds

Presently the hospital is having 806 beds in total. The distribution of beds is as follows:    

Medicine and Allied Specialities
Discipline	No. of beds
General Medicine	130
Cardiology	22
Psychiatry	30
Dermatology	16
Paediatrics	60
General Isolation	26
Tuberculosis	40
Total	324

Surgery and Allied Specialities
Discipline		No. of beds
General Surgery		130
Orthopaedic		70
Ophthalmology		40
E.N.T.		46
Isolation	Tetanus	4
	Rabies	2
Total		292

Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Discipline	No. of beds
Obstetrics & Gynaecology	70

Others:
Discipline	No. of beds
Casualty	16
I.C.U.	6
I.C.C.U	6
Paying Cabins	24
Sick Room	4
PICU	6
RICU	3
NICU	8
ITU	5
Total	78

Hospital Statistics

Statistical Summary for the Patients Outdoor Attendance / Emergency Attendance and Admissions
Year	Out-patient cases			Indoor Admission			Emergency cases			Total Births	Total Deaths
	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
2001	74463	64866	139329	9686	9100	18786	9397	7141	16538	2165	1226
2002	74871	65123	139994	10695	10417	21112	10862	9241	20103	2278	1127
2003	72986	63937	136923	10558	10997	21555	10749	9858	20607	2188	1401
2004	71337	61170	132507	11158	11537	22695	13265	11241	24506	2517	1484
2005	83933	67383	151316	13925	11038	24963	15566	7353	22919	3061	1559
2006	83,209	69,863	1,53,072	14,075	12,322	26,397	16,232	8,667	24,899	3,717	1,830
2007	85,743	73,141	1,58,884	14,001	13,723	27,724	14,072	10,581	24,653	5,028	1,753
2008	1,08,095	98,991	2,07,086	15,659	16,032	31,691	17,747	15,008	32,755	6,184	1,828
2009	1,38,594	1,24,601	2,63,195	17,971	18,966	36,937	21,345	18,615	39960	6,930	2,179

DEPARTMENT WISE OPD & IPD ATTENDANCE FOR THE YEAR 2001 TO 2010

YEAR	2001		2002		2003		2004		2005
DEPTT.	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD
MEDICINE	33928	5561	34739	5810	33174	6897	32713	6571	40359	7538
SURGERY	17129	3067	16341	2904	16662	3036	15648	3129	18460	3707
PAEDIATRICS	16871	1430	17523	1897	16359	1928	16174	2032	17304	2091
E.N.T.	13607	1028	13184	857	13038	1022	12134	1000	13294	1059
OPHTHALMOLOGY	13430	1332	14329	1306	12813	1250	13538	1640	14431	2009
DENTAL	5172	5	5124	0	4762	0	4437	0	4614	9
PSYCHIATRY	5096	302	4139	141	3246	85	3006	289	3586	366
DERMATOLOGY	6578	110	6659	169	7245	116	7010	189	8090	214
ORTHOPAEDICS	12637	853	12906	1017	14475	762	12236	807	13612	905
T.B. & CHEST	1230	277	1388	321	1516	341	1353	282	1455	272
CARDIOLOGY	1578	819	1542	777	1341	870	1574	923	1993	842
OBST & GYNAE	12073	3411	12120	4956	12292	4817	12684	4982	14118	5431
ISOLATION	0	37	0	738	0	0	0	425	0	282
DIPHTHERIA	0	26	0	19	0	0	0	16	0	0
TETANUS	0	53	0	28	0	0	0	25	0	0
TOTAL (OPD)	139329		139994		136923		132507		151316
CASUALTY	16538	475	20103	172	20607	431	24506	385	22919	238
TOTAL (IPD)		18786		21112		21555		22695		24963
DAILY AVG.	464	63	467	70	456	72	442	62	504	68

YEAR	2006		2007		2008		2009		2010(upto July)
DEPTT	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD	OPD	IPD
MEDICINE	40162	7947	40027	7463	56335	8131	74584	10595	42095	6098
SURGERY	17706	4209	18040	4397	20420	4970	27010	5771	17607	3659
PAEDIATRICS	17481	2305	18627	2454	25671	3293	32719	4094	16940	2023
E.N.T.	13882	1096	14690	1251	18614	1396	22524	1416	12059	801
OPHTHALMOLOGY	13416	1574	13460	1618	16888	1864	19679	1389	10772	644
DENTAL	4180	6	4755	4	5648	0	5886	2	4064	0
PSYCHIATRY	3129	450	2984	445	3598	323	4134	369	2499	293
DERMATOLOGY	9233	161	9294	156	12390	214	15205	206	8906	165
ORTHOPAEDICS	16109	864	17396	920	22681	1185	29499	1370	15389	882
T.B. & CHEST	1381	285	1991	301	2635	367	3240	430	1674	177
CARDIOLOGY	2077	877	2783	899	3888	982	5541	978	3162	451
OBST & GYNAE	14316	6088	14837	7290	18318	8589	23174	9784	13475	5724
ISOLATION	0	228	0	161	0	156	0	371	0	75
DIPHTHERIA	0	15	0	16	0	10	0	8	0	2
TETANUS	0	15	0	28	0	16	0	11	0	11
TOTAL (OPD)	153072		158884		207086		263195		148642
CASUALTY	24899	277	24653	321	32755	195	39960	143	21465	71
TOTAL (IPD)		26397		27724		31691		36937		21076
DAILY AVG.	510	72	530	76	690	87	877	101	850	100

Number of operations done
Year	Surgery			Ophthalmology			E.N.T.			Orthopaedics			Obs. & Gynae			Grand Total
	Major	Minor	Total	Major	Minor	Total	Major	Minor	Total	Major	Minor	Total	Major	Minor	Total	Major	Minor	Total
2003	856	324	1180	1204	124	1328	502	1747	2249	334	409	743	1658	989	2647	4554	3593	8147
2004	1376	629	879	1110	148	1258	542	1162	1704	355	395	750	1792	1132	2924	5175	3466	8641
2005	1568	2373	3941	1382	174	1556	444	887	1331	281	416	697	1982	1080	3062	5657	4930	10587
2006	1769	2250	4019	1223	184	1407	531	1017	1548	318	565	883	2389	1121	3510	6230	5137	11367
2007	2108	2400	4508	1168	164	1332	520	1393	1913	464	827	1291	1697	2000	3697	5957	6784	12741
2008	2312	2519	4831	1201	272	1473	745	1456	2201	614	1240	1726	1722	2820	4542	6594	8307	14901
2009	2422	3340	5762	901	175	1076	533	2352	2885	990	1151	2141	664	1817	2481	5510	8835	14345

History

A brief history of SMC.