Family medicine specialty focuses on whole-person, family centered, comprehensive, compassionate and coordinated primary health care. It is multi-specialty based and deals with common illnesses in the community. The department has also been accredited by National Board of Examination, New Delhi to conduct the Post Graduate program for DNB Family Medicine.

Palliative care is an approach to improve the quality of life of patients and families facing problems associated with life threatening illness. Prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and problems drastically improves the quality of life(physical, psychosocial and spiritual)...

The Ophthalmology department was started in November 2012 under the able hands of Dr. Sushil Daniel and has since been growing in every aspect to provide quality eye care in this region. The eye department is now managed by Dr. T Lipoksanen Jamir and has started phacoemulsification cataract surgeries in...

Assessment, diagnosis and rehabilitation of individuals with various speech, language and communication disorders such as stammering misarticulation, voice disorders, dysartheria, aphasia, hearing loss, delay in speech and language etc and treatment evaluation of various speech and language disorders.

Anaesthesia is primarily a service speciality linked to the practice of surgery. The department of anaesthesia in CIHSR is a steadily growing department which presently consists of 2 anaesthesiologists, 1 certified nurse anaesthetist, 1 BSc anaesthesia technician and 3 anaesthesia assistants.

Community Health is a department, which is unique to CIHSR and even Nagaland. While most other departments focus on the treatment of disease conditions, this department emphasis on health and staying healthy. Therefore all activities of the department revolve around the preventive and social well being of not just one...

The Department of Clinical Biochemistry offers diagnostic support to the clinicians of our hospital to provide good quality clinical services. This department handles over 100 samples per day and over 500 tests every day.


The department aims at maintaining continuous and consistent quality by internal quality controls and by participating in External Quality Assessment Schemes with Christian Medical College, Vellore and Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist for Biochemistry and Microbiology.

The Department of Haematology & Clinical Pathology is a unique department where Haematology, Coagulation, Clinical pathology and Immunohaematology tests are performed under one roof. It is a unique department in this state as it provides a wide array of tests to aide clinicians in the OPD, day care centre and...