Imaging is done in this building rather than sent out of it: digital X-ray, ultrasound and colour Doppler, with the radiologist on the same campus as the consultant who asked for the study. That is the practical difference for a patient — a film taken in casualty at two in the morning is read before the decision it was ordered for, and an ultrasound asked for during a consultation is usually done the same day instead of on a second visit.
What is done here
The panel below is transcribed from the department’s own board — the studies on it are what the hospital offers, not what a radiology department could in principle offer. Two of them are worth explaining before you are booked into one: an ultrasound-guided FNAC is a needle biopsy taken while the scan shows where the needle is going, and the fetal anomaly scan is done twice in a pregnancy for two different questions — the NT study in the first months, the Level II survey later.
Conditions treated
- Fetal anomaly screening (NT and Level II)
- High-risk pregnancy monitoring
Procedures performed
- Digital X-ray: chest, abdomen, spine, KUB, extremity
- IVP, HSG, MCU, RGU and barium studies
- Ultrasound: whole abdomen, routine obstetric, 3D/4D/5D
- Colour Doppler
- USG-guided FNAC
- Fetal anomaly scan (NT and Level II)
Equipment on site
- Digital X-ray
- Ultrasound (USG)
- Colour Doppler
Timings Ultrasound Mon–Sat 9:00 AM–12:00 PM and 6:00–8:00 PM
The ultrasound session
Ultrasound is the study most patients book themselves, and it runs to a posted window rather than to whenever a room frees up — the session times are in the panel above and in the column beside this page. A whole-abdomen scan needs the stomach empty and a pelvic or obstetric scan needs a full bladder, which is why the appointment desk tells you how to prepare when it gives the slot rather than after you arrive. The sonologist scans and reports in the same visit.
Dr. Rohit
Director & Consultant, Radiodiagnosis
Advanced ultrasound and fetal medicine, and the hospital’s director.
- MBBS, MD (Radiodiagnosis)
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat · 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM and 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Consults in Hindi, English
The studies on his own banner are the department’s list of what it performs. Two of them are worth naming to the desk rather than describing afterwards: a fetal anomaly scan is an assessment that changes the pregnancy plan, not a photograph for the family album, and an ultrasound-guided FNAC is a needle biopsy taken while the scan shows where the needle is going.
- 3D / 4D / 5D ultrasound
- Colour Doppler studies
- Digital X-ray
- USG-guided FNAC
- Fetal anomaly scan (NT and Level II)
- High-risk pregnancy monitoring
- Obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound
What to bring
- Earlier films and reports, not just the prescription. A scan is read by comparison — a nodule that has not changed in two years is a different finding from one that is new.
- The referral, with the question written on it. “Abdominal pain” and “follow-up of a known gallstone” are different examinations, and the second one is shorter.
- For a woman who is or may be pregnant, say so before an X-ray or a contrast study. This is the one question that changes what can be done today.
- The prescription and the receipt if the study is being claimed under insurance — a cashless approval covers some imaging and not others, and the desk needs the paper before, not after.
Questions the desk gets asked
No, and they are not interchangeable. An X-ray is good at bone, air and a stone that stops light; ultrasound is good at soft tissue, fluid and a baby, and it has no radiation. A consultant orders the one that answers the question asked, which is why being told what the doctor is looking for helps the department more than being told which machine you would prefer.
X-ray films are digital and available at once. An ultrasound report is written by the radiologist who did the scan, in the same session, unless the study needs a second opinion or a comparison film that is not physically in the building. Ask before you leave rather than telephoning afterwards.
Any consultant on this campus can, and most of the work here is ordered from inside the hospital: obstetrics books the anomaly scans, medicine and orthopaedics order the films, surgery orders the FNACs, and casualty has priority over every list when a patient cannot wait. A scan brought in from outside is done too — bring the prescription that asked for it.
Where this department sits
Radiodiagnosis is not a clinic you visit for its own sake; it is the room the other departments send you to. The obstetric anomaly scans, the orthopaedic films and the pre-operative workup ordered by surgery and internal medicine all pass through it, and the health packages that include an ultrasound are booked here.