3. Scheme of Presentation
• Introduction
• Background
• Role
• Restructuring
• Manpower status
• Departments
4. Background : The path
• Established as Naval Medical Research and
Training Centre (NMRTC): 1964
• Re-designated as Institute of Naval Medicine
(INM):1974
5. Background: The path
• Accorded status of Category ‘A’ training
establishment: 1975
• Placed under command & control of HQWNC :
1986
– Head of INM re-designated as ‘Director’ : 1987
• Restructured & placed under command &
control of INHS Asvini: 2004
6. Role of INM : core concepts
• Training
• Research
• Operational Medical support
7. Role of INM : Core concepts
Training
• Develop , maintain and impart
– Standardised professional training to
• Medical Officers
• Probationer Nurses
• Medical Assistants
– Training in Marine medicine to
• Medical Officers
• Medical Assistants
8. Role of INM : Core concepts
Training
• Impart training to Medical Assistants in
– Initial
– Higher rank courses
– Specialist
• Conduct post –graduate specialist courses in
Marine Medicine
• Conduct Shipmasters Medicare courses
– For civilian non-medical personnel of the Merchant
Marine
9. Role of INM : Core concepts
Training
• Conduct professional conferences like
– Annual conference of Marine Medical Society
– Bombay Medical Congress
– CME programmes in
• Marine Medicine
• Aviation Medicine
10. Role of INM : Core concepts
Research
• Function as a nodal agency for co-ordination of
all Armed Forces Medical Research Committee
(AFMRC) projects
11. Role of INM : Core concepts
Operational Medical support
• Carry out medical examination / conduct medical
boards of
– Divers
– Submariners of Navy & Coast Guard
– Aircrew
12. Functional structure
IHQ MOD (Navy)
HQWNC
ASVINI
EXO DIR INM CMDE
HsOD
ACADEMICS
13. Internal structure
Departments
DIR INM
Research & Trg Co-ord.
Undersea Medicine Dept Hyperbaric Medicine Dept
(Chamber Complex)
Naval Aviation Med Dept Maritime Health Dept
Maritime Lab
Sports Medicine Dept
Research & Analysis Wing
NBC & Radiation Med Dept Applied physiology
Applied psychology
Record analysis
Publication
Statistics
14. Manpower status: Officers
Category Auth Borne
Director 01 01
Marine Medicine 03 03
Aviation 02 01
Physiology 02 01
Preventive Medicine 02 01
Sports Medicine 01 Nil
Diving Officer 01 01
TOTAL 12 08
15. Manpower status: Officers
Specialist officers earmarked for
primary work at INM
Specialist Auth Borne
Psychiatrist 01 Nil
ENT Specialist 01 Nil
Ophthalmologist 01 Nil
Physician 01 Nil
Psychologist 01 Nil
Nuclear Medicine 01 Nil
16. Manpower status : Sailors
BORNE
• SENIOR SAILORS INM 04
Distribution
SNM 02
SNH 02
• JUNIOR SAILORS INM 05
Distribution
INM 05
SNM NIL
SNH NIL
• CIVILIANS INM 13
Distribution
INM 09
SNM 02
SON 02
19. Activities
• The activities of the Department can be broadly
classified under the following heads
– Clinical
– Research
– Training
20. Clinical
• Details of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy rendered are
2008 2009 2010 till date
Number of patients 144 182 77
Number of 2361 1721 999
therapies (sessions)
• Medical evaluation of divers, including civilian divers,
commandos and submariners undertaken.
• Specialist opinions are rendered as and when required.
33. Old Chamber
• Installed in 1983
• Hyperbaric Chamber having a 30 bar working
pressure
• Procured from Comex Industries,France
• Sanction for long overdue repairs taken froMHQWNC
• Work package completed
36. Status of new chamber
Following additions / alterations carried out
• Oxygen gauges at the control panel replaced to provide
additional supply of oxygen to all BIBS.
• Pressure and depth gauges on the control panel calibrated.
• Sealing gaskets of the chamber replaced to enable mating with
existing one man portable chamber (Dragger).
• Decompression pipes replaced with larger diameter pipes for
faster decompression.
• Oxygen dump pipe replaced with a larger diameter pipe.
39. School of Naval Health:
Training
Course 2008 2009 2010 till Total
date
Indian Trainees (H-I) 08 06 05 21
International students (H-I) 02 06 06 14
Indian Trainees (H-II) 11 05 05 21
International students (H-II) 07 02 03 12
Hygiene & Sanitation 25 25 Nil 50
Courses for Topasses
Including 10 educational / field visits per course
40. School of Naval Health
Other activities
• O i/C SNH is statistical consultant / adviser for
– AFMRC projects
– Departmental projects
– Dissertations done by PG residents of INHS Asvini
41. Naval Aviation Medicine Cell
Operational Medical Support
Year
2009 2010
AME Aircrew 135 10
Opinion on 19 05
Aircrew medical
status
46. AFMRC Projects (Navy)
Unit Ongoing AFMRC New project
projects proposals for
2011
Asvini 29 (22+07) 26
Out station 19 (17+02) 01
TOTAL 48 (39+09) 09
•No. of Final reports not submitted : Nil
