SDS Tuberculosis Sanatorium

The SDS Tuberculosis Sanatorium is a government run institute affiliated to Bangalore Medical College specializing in treating tuberculosis and other chest diseases. The sanatorium is housed on a sprawling campus near Hosur road in Bangalore.

SDS tuberculosis sanatorium named after philanthropists :Smt.Shanthabai Devarao Shivaram Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Later, as it became a teaching hospital affiliated to the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, and under development plans of the Govt of Karnataka, it was called Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Disases. for locals however, it still remains: TB 'aaspatre'( kannada term for hospital)

It is located adjoining the Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health and the NIMHANS campus.

It a premier institute where chest diseases are treated with expertise from the best in the field. Of special importance attributed to the hospital is its treatment of tuberculosis which is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the region. Specialised treatment of tuberculosis and its varied complications are dealt with medically and if be need surgically yet being very cost effective. It also functions as a chest injury and trauma care referral hospital.

Undergraduate students in the MBBS and physiotherapy course and post graduate students from the medicine, surgery and allied departments are posted on rotation basis for a definite period for gaining clinical and surgical acumen in identifying, treating and following up pulmonary disease.

Though it is severely short of hands, the existing professors and teachers are some of the best in their field. It was truly a great experience. It is one of the few places in a BMC intern's life where he/she gets to do something which even the post graduates hesitate some times. Though our postings lasted only for a fortnight, we came away fonder and richer with each days' experiences.

The official site for detailed information is : SDS Sanatorium and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest diseases[1]

this article was jointly contributed by doctors : Aditya Barigali and Avinash A Kesari,Interns of Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, who worked in the above hospital as interns in both the pulmonary medicine and surgery units.

• Bangalore Map Guide