SVIMS Tirupati - Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences

SVIMS Tirupati provides certain facilities to the students and staff inside the college campus. Detailed description on all the facilities are listed below.

• Healthcare Facility- The college provides outpatient services to patients including Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, ENT, Ophthalmology, Dental Surgery & Psychiatry etc. The services are provided to patients on all working days.

• Library- The library has a collection of 11124 medical books and 429 non-medical books, 159 journals including both Indian and Foreign, 6865 back volumes and 409 CD/DVDs. The library also provides other facilities like scanning, reprography and internet. The library also has access to library automation software KOHA to provide easy access to library resources. The library remains open from 8 am- 12 midnight on all working days, 10 am to 4 pm on Sundays and 10 am to 5 pm on festivals.

• Hostel- Hostels are allotted separately to boys and girls based on the availability of rooms. Students need to fill the forms separately to get allotment to hostels. Mess facilities are also provided inside the hostels and students need to pay extra fees for the mess facilities.

• Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre- This Centre was developed on 31st December, 2018 to test HIV free of cost.

• Central Research Laboratory- The central research laboratory has been developed to provide the faculty, staff and students with advanced technology. The laboratory is well equipped with facilities like thermocyclers (PCR machine), Real-time PCR, spectrophotometers, electrophoretic instruments with gel documentation facility, flow cytometry, refrigerated centrifuges, laminar air flows and cell culture facility.

• Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centre- Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Centre has been developed by Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission [National Coordination Centre (NCC) for Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) to report adverse drug reactions of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS).

• Drug Information Centre- This Centre has been developed by the department of pharmacology to educate the patients and healthcare professionals regarding the functioning of medicines.

• AHA’s International Training Centre- This Centre has been developed to educate the people regarding the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. This centre was developed with the objective of minimizing the death rates occurring due cardiac arrests including strokes.

• Advanced Lung Clinic- This Clinic has been developed in SVIMS to treat the patients suffering from lung diseases including severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), severe uncontrolled bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Treatments like six minute walk test, pulmonary functional tests, bronchoscopy, HRCT chest, 2DEcho and right heart catheterization test six minute walk test, pulmonary functional tests, bronchoscopy, HRCT chest, 2DEcho and right heart catheterization test are also conducted inside this clinic.