Nagarjuna Hospital, Auto Nagar

Nagarjuna Hospital is a multispeciality hospital on Kanuru Main Road at Auto Nagar in Vijayawada, with oncology as its named speciality. It has an operation theatre, an intensive care unit and an on-site laboratory, and is open from 8.00 am to 7.00 pm.Cancer care covers medical and surgical oncology, paediatric oncology and palliative cancer care, with mammography for breast screening.The hospital's pathology service is unusually complete for its size, covering clinical pathology, histopathology, cytopathology, haematology and microbiology, with home sample collection available.Surgical departments include general surgery, surgical gastroenterology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and obstetrics and gynaecology, supported by anaesthesiology and critical care.Medical departments include general medicine, cardiology and clinical cardiology, clinical gastroenterology with endoscopy, pulmonology covering pneumonia, lung infection and lung abscess with bronchoscopy, neurology, paediatrics, elderly care and physiotherapy. Emergency medicine and ICU care run alongside inpatient and outpatient services.Imaging includes X-ray and ultrasound. A pharmacy operates on site with medicine delivery, and the hospital runs wellness and weight management programmes.Nagarjuna Hospital is located on Kanuru Main Road, Auto Nagar, Vijayawada 520007. Auto Nagar sits on the eastern side of the city along the road to Machilipatnam, close to the Kanuru and Poranki junctions and the bypass that carries NH-16 traffic around Vijayawada. The city is the referral centre for the Krishna and Guntur districts, and a hospital on this side of it is reached first by patients travelling in from the delta mandals to the east.