Given the large number of patients visiting the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS) Prasanthigram, it is advised that patients seeking to visit the hospital for treatment take an appointment beforehand.

What is an appointment?

Appointment is a specific date given by the SSSIHMS, Prasanthigram to the patients seeking to visit the hospital for treatment.

Why take an appointment?

Any new patient visiting the hospital is required to register himself/herself at the Screening and Registration Block (Refer to information for first time patients) in the campus. Depending on the people seeking to visit a specific department, the patients are asked to wait in the lines for specific departments for registration. Patients with an appointment are given preference in the process of registration.

For our part, taking an appointment eases the procedure followed for treatment, as the consultants of specific departments would have familiarised themselves with the details of the case. This helps in better diagnosis and treatment.

How to take an appointment?

The patients can contact SSSIHMS through phone, e-mail or ordinary post to take an appointment.

The covering letter must have:

• Name, address and phone number of the patient (Important)
• Age
• The ailment. How long he/she has been suffering from the same.
• The preferred time during the year, when the patient wants to visit the hospital. (Please note, this is just to know a time convenient for you. The final decision, however, will be made by the specific department only.)
• Previous medical records (if any) attached to the covering letter (Important)

Note:

• Appointments for two different departments cannot be given on the same day.
• If a patient seeks appointment for more than one department, then he/she must send separate mails for each of the departments.

By calling up the hospital, the patient will have a fair idea how to go about taking an appointment, and how soon he/she might get an appointment. He/She, however, will have to send the covering letter and the photocopies of the medical records (if any), through e-mail or post.

Taking appointment through e-mail

For taking appointment through email, the patients have to mail a covering letter along with scanned medical records to the following email id.

enquirypg@sssihms.org.in

Patients sending their covering letter and photocopies of their medical records ( if any) will have to send them to:

Patient Correspondence Cell ( Room 132 )
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram,
Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh,
PIN: 515134.

Patients who do not have any previous medical records, may only send the covering letter with a description of their symptoms.

It is again mentioned that SSSIHMS, Prasanthigram has the specialities of Cardiology, Urology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and Gastroenterology (endoscopy) only.  With respect to Gastroenterology (endoscopy) patients should first visit Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital, Puttaparthi and once referred by the doctors of SSSGH, they should visit the Gastroenterology (endoscopy) department at SSSIHMS.

Once your request for appointment reaches us, we will get back to you by your email or postal address.

All the instructions will be written clearly in the appointment letter mailed to you. Please follow the instructions.

After your receive the letter, if you have any queries,

Please dial the phone number given above and also the extension number shown above or you can wait for operator assistance. Please call between 8.00 am and 5.00 pm.