Teen Clinic, cardiovascular kidney metabolic clinic launched at RGGGH

The Hindu

28-04-2025

The Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) has established a weekly 'Teen Clinic' for the well-being of adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. The clinic established at a cost of Rs. 14 lakh will function from 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturdays.
Along with the Teen Clinic, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian and Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister P.K. Sekar Babu inaugurated the Centre of Excellence for Diabetology of which a Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic (CKM) Clinic has been set up, and a temporal bone dissection skill lab set up at a cost of Rs. 2.40 crore at RGGGH on Monday.
The Teen Clinic will offer a multi-disciplinary approach encompassing general medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, nutrition and dermatology and sexually transmitted infections, a press release said.
Located on the fifth floor of Tower 3, the clinic will provide comprehensive services aimed at addressing the physical, emotional and social needs of adolescents. It aims at enhancing adolescent health awareness including on healthy lifestyles, dietary guidance for obesity and avoiding junk food, and educating them on the hazards of substance abuse including alcohol, smoking and drugs, with psychological approaches for de-addiction, personality disorders, anxiety and depression. It also aims to promote early intervention on adolescent female health, focussing on obesity, irregular menstrual cycles, polycystic ovarian syndrome and sexually transmitted diseases.
At the Centre of Excellence for Diabetology, new laboratory equipment has been procured. Nerve conduction studies to detect neuropathy, sarcopenia assessment for muscle strength, foot assessment, pulsed electromagnetic field therapy for treating painful diabetic neuropathy and full-fledged ophthalmic assessment for early diagnosis of retinopathy are available. In addition, an adult Type 1 diabetes clinic has been set up.
The CKM clinic is meant for patients with diabetes who have developed cardiovascular and renal problems. Three specialists - diabetologist, cardiologist and nephrologist - will be available at the clinic to provide comprehensive care under a single roof. Patients can undergo all investigations and receive drug prescriptions at the clinic, doctors said.
Through the temporal bone dissection skill lab, training will be imparted to ENT doctors across the State, the Minister said.
Health Secretary P. Senthilkumar, National Health Mission, Tamil Nadu Mission Director Arun Thamburaj, Director of Medical Education and Research J. Sangumani, dean of RGGGH K. Shantharam, director and head of department, Institute of Diabetology P. Dharmarajan and director of ENT Suresh Kumar were present.