The services provided by the Department of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) include the treatment of adult patients with a variety of medical conditions including, but not limited to:

Conditions

  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Dyslipidemia
  • Pneumonia
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • Obesity
  • Osteoporosis
  • Osteopenia
  • Vitamin Deficiency
  • Perioperative Medicine: Optimising patients for surgery
  • Preventive Healthcare Services including physical exam and investigations
  • Procedures
  • Arterial blood gas analysis
  • Ryle’s tube insertion
  • Pleural Paracentesis (Thoracocentesis)
  • Abdominal Paracentesis
  • Lumbar Puncture
  • Endotracheal intubation
  • CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation)
  • Defibrillation
  • Temporary Pacemaker Insertion
  • Central Venous Catheterisation
  • Arterial Line Insertion
  • Speciality Clinic

Geriatric Clinic which provides preventive Gerontology and treatment of conditions of the elderly including gait problems, memory problems, mood problems and urinary problems

The services offered by the Internal Medicine Department for Infectious Diseases at VEMH include:

  • Tropical medicine
  • Travel medicine
  • Adult vaccination
  • Infection control
  • HIV medicine
  • Tuberculosis
  • Resistant bacterial infections
  • Hospital acquired infections
  • Clinical Microbiology
  • Infections in immune compromised hosts
  • Fungal infections