Department of Microbiology

Our Vision

Our vision is to Integrate recent updates into medical curriculum teaching, while developing laboratories for student teaching, patient care, and research facilities.


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Our Mission

We offer cutting-edge medical care to Gautam Buddha Nagar & nearby districts, educate postgraduates, undergraduates, nursing officers, and HCWs comprehensively, conduct research on emerging pathogens, and enforce infection prevention protocols along with antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.

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Department Information

Sr. No. Heading Details
1 Name of the Department Microbiology
2 Department Email ------
3 Date of Establishment Dec 2017
4 Names and qualifications of Head of Department Dr (Brig.) Ajay Kumar Sahni MD (Microbiology), Ph.D Microbiology (Virology)

  • To enhance number of diagnostic capabilities in bacteriology , Mycobacteriology , Mycology , Virology and parasitology
  • Development of UG modules for simplified teaching.
  • Improvise educational and Training programs.

  • Develop Clinical Microbiology subspecialties
  • To be an Apex tertiary care referral center in Clinical Microbiology services in UP

  • Manual Culture and sensitivity (Urine/Blood/Pus/Sputum/ HVS/ Throat swab/Body fluids)
  • Automated Culture and sensitivity (Urine/Blood/Pus/Sputum/ HVS/ Throat swab/Body fluids)
  • Gram Staining (Pus/Sputum /Body fluids)
  • HBsAg
  • Anti-HCV
  • Anti-HIV
  • WIDAL Test
  • VDRL/ RPR
  • Malaria RDT
  • Dengue RDT
  • ELISA Dengue IgM
  • KOH mount for fungal element
  • Automated culture for yeast Fungal Culture
  • Manual Fungal Culture
  • Stool Routine microscopy
  • Occult Blood from Stool
  • ZN Staining (Pus/Sputum /Body fluids)
  • Truenat MTB
  • CBNAAT

  • Letter of permission from Medical Council of India vide letter No. MCI-34(41) (E-60)/2019 .Med/ 115574 dated 20th May 2019 for starting MBBS course for 100 students. First batch of 100 students have been admitted and classes has been commenced since 01 Aug 2019.

  • Bacteriology – 35/day
  • Serology- 90/ day
  • Parasitology- 1-2/day
  • Mycology- 1-2/day

  • To develop as a tertiary referral Microbiology diagnostic laboratory for infectious diseases.
  • Develop Microbiology subspecialties
  • To establish state of art BSL-3 laboratory to work with exotic infectious viral and bacterial agents.
  • To develop genomic surveillance laboratory to detect variation and nucleotide mutation.
  • To improve research in the department with extra mural research projects from ICMR or other research institutions.
  • To improve infrastructure and rapid diagnostic test to reduce turnaround time.
  • To organize conference at state level and participate in the national level conference.

  • Workshop on “AMR Frontline” conducted on 12th Dec 2023 with Department of Community medicine, supported by Rockefeller Foundation and Ashoka University.
  • Workshop on "Handling infectious Biological material with special reference to COVID-19" conducted on 20th June 2022 supported by CDC.
  • Guest and Faculty lecture to commemorate “WORLD TB DAY” on 24th March 2022 by Dr Neha Parakh MBBS, DPH (KEM, Mumbai) Senior Manager-Medical Affairs, BD Diagnostics
  • CME on "Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Stewardship", on 06th September 2021.
  • CME cum workshop on "Recent Advances in CSSD and its role in Hospital Infection Control", on 14th September 2021 with collaboration of Department of Anesthesia with 3 credit hrs (UPMC/6697/2021 dated 24/8/2022)
  • CME cum workshop on ‘Hospital Infection Control Practices: Challenges& Solutions’, on 23rd and 24thJuly 2019 supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and American society for Microbiology (ASM) with 8 credit hrs (UPMC/18489/19 dated 03/07/2019)

  • Antimicrobial consumption and microbial resistance pattern in patients admitted in ICU at a tertiary care hospital in North India (Funding agency GIMS) n North India (Funding agency GIMS)
  • Device-associated health care-associated infection in an intensive care unit in Covid-19 patients (Funding agency GIMS) completed
  • Environmental Surface Sampling in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Funding agency GIMS) completed
  • Efficacy of urine based human papillomavirus screening for cervical cancer (Funding agency Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare)
  • Characterization of bacterial isolates, antibiotic resistance patterns, and risk factors for acquisition in Hospital-acquired infections in the adult intensive care unit at a tertiary care hospital in North India (Funding agency GIMS)

  • “Incidence of adverse outcomes and risk factors for mortality among Mucormycosis patients in India: a multi-centric ambispective cohort study, 2021-2022”. (Funding agency ICMR-NIE)
  • “Identification and Molecular characterization of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in Tuberculosis suspected patients” (Funding agency The Tuberculosis Association of India, New Delhi) completed
  • “Development of Isothermal-PCR and CRISPR-Cas12 based rapid and portable coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 detection kit”. (Funding agency DBT-BIRAC 2020).

VISION PLAN - DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY

Present Status Next 1 Year Next 5 Years Next 10 Years
Diagnosis UG Teaching Research
  • To enhance number of diagnostic capabilities in bacteriology , Mycobacteriology , Mycology , Virology and parasitology
  • Development of UG modules for simplified teaching.
  • Improvise educational and Training programs
  • To establish Viral Diagnostic and Research lab.
  • To establish BSL-3 Laboratory
  • Laboratory Accreditation from National bodies
  • To start academic teaching programs- Post-Doctoral Certificate Course, MD/DNB/PhD.
  • Hospital Infection Control Certificate Programme
  • Mycrobacterium tuberculosis and NTM diagnostics with 1st line & 2nd line drug sensitivity testing
  • Develop Clinical Microbiology subspecialties
  • To be an Apex tertiary care referral center in Clinical Microbiology services in UP
MBBS MD (Microbiology), Certificate courses in sub specialities
Department of Microbiology

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Weekly MBBS Phase 1 Teaching Schedule

The Department of Microbiology at GIMS organizes teaching sessions for MBBS Phase 1 students, covering essential topics in Microbiology to support their foundational medical education.

Result of Last 5 Yeats

TThe Department of Microbiology at GIMS consistently achieves remarkable results through the dedication and excellence of its students.