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About Dr. Ashish Dubey - Pulmonologist in Bhopal

Dr. Ashish Dubey is a Bhopal-based pulmonologist with more than 25 years of experience diagnosing and treating asthma, COPD, tuberculosis, and other chest and lung conditions. He is the founder and lead consultant at Anamay Chest Hospital, Saket Nagar, a 24-hour respiratory care facility he built from the ground up.

"Breath feels shorter than it should? It might not be just weakness.", Dr. Ashish Dubey
Education & Qualifications

A Rare Dual Qualification

This page walks through his qualifications, career, and the specific things that shape how he practices, so you know exactly who you'd be consulting before you book an appointment.

MBBS

Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal

DTCD

Diploma in Tuberculosis & Chest Diseases — Mumbai

DNB

Respiratory Medicine — B.G. Medical College (BGMC), Ahmedabad

This dual qualification - DTCD alongside DNB Respiratory Medicine is uncommon among pulmonologists practising in Bhopal. Most chest specialists hold a single postgraduate qualification, either focused on infective disease like TB or on general respiratory medicine. Dr. Dubey's combined training covers both: classic infective chest disease, including drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB, and modern critical-care pulmonology, including ICU and ventilator management. In practice, that means a patient with an unclear diagnosis say, a chronic cough that could be TB, could be asthma, or could be something else entirely is being evaluated by someone trained in both directions, rather than being referred out partway through.
Career Path

Professional Journey

The Beginning

Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal

One of the city's major public teaching hospitals. Public hospitals in a city the size of Bhopal see an enormous volume and variety of chest disease — far more than a typical private OPD would in the same number of years. That early exposure to complex, advanced, and sometimes neglected cases shaped how he approaches diagnosis today: methodically, and without assuming the obvious answer is automatically the right one.

2008

Dr. Dubey's Allergy Asthma & Respiratory Care Centre

Dedicated allergy testing and long-term immunotherapy — a more specialised offering than the general asthma treatment typically available through a standard chest OPD at the time. Rather than treating every wheeze the same way, this centre was built around identifying specific triggers (dust, pollen, food, occupational allergens) and building a treatment plan around the individual patient's results.

Today

Anamay Chest Hospital, Saket Nagar

He now practises full-time as owner and lead pulmonologist, overseeing a facility purpose-built for respiratory care — including an ICU, bronchoscopy suite, and pulmonary function testing lab, open 24 hours a day. The hospital's protocols reflect one doctor's clinical philosophy consistently, rather than being assembled from a mix of visiting consultants.

Dr. Ashish Dubey, pulmonologist, in the consultation room at Anamay Chest Hospital, Bhopal
Public → Specialist → FounderA fairly unusual progression
Memberships

Professional Memberships

  • National College of Chest Physicians (India)
  • Indian College of Bronchology

These memberships reflect ongoing engagement with the wider pulmonology community in India, including continued exposure to evolving treatment protocols in chest medicine. For a field where TB treatment guidelines and asthma management protocols do shift over time, staying connected to these professional bodies is part of how a specialist keeps their practice current rather than relying only on what they learned during training decades ago.

Expertise

Areas of Clinical Expertise

Asthma & Respiratory Allergies

Including paediatric asthma and long-term control planning.

COPD & Chronic Bronchitis

Management including pulmonary rehabilitation guidance.

TB & Drug-Resistant TB

Including DOTS therapy and follow-up monitoring.

Bronchoscopy & Interventional Diagnostics

For unclear or persistent chest symptoms.

ILD & Pulmonary Fibrosis

Conditions that need long-term specialist follow-up rather than a one-time consultation.

Sleep Apnea

Polysomnography-guided treatment for snoring and disrupted sleep.

Critical Care & Ventilator Management

For severe respiratory failure and ICU-level emergencies.

Smoking & Tobacco De-addiction

Programs built around the specific lung damage patterns seen in long-term smokers.

Patient First

His Approach to Patient Care

Patients frequently describe Dr. Dubey's consultations as unhurried a small thing that matters a lot in respiratory medicine, where symptoms often overlap across several different conditions. A chronic cough, for example, could point to asthma, TB, ILD, a lingering post-infection issue, or simply reflux. His approach leans on taking a proper history and ordering the right diagnostic test rather than guessing from the symptom list alone then explaining the reasoning behind the diagnosis so patients understand what's happening and why a particular treatment was chosen, not just what pills to take.

Rare Academic Combination

DTCD + DNB — spanning infective and critical respiratory disease.

Dedicated Allergy Sub-Practice

A long-running allergy & asthma practice, not an afterthought.

Full Clinical Ownership

Protocols, equipment and staff training all shaped around pulmonology.

24-Hour Hospital

A point of contact even when a condition worsens after hours.

Thorough & Unhurried

Patients describe a style focused on explaining the 'why' behind a diagnosis.

Strong Patient Reputation

Hundreds of ratings averaging high 4-stars on review platforms.

Both Worlds

Why Experience in Both Public and Private Practice Matters

Doctors who move straight from training into a private clinic sometimes see a narrower slice of disease — patients who can afford regular check-ups, catching problems relatively early. Doctors who spend their formative years in a public teaching hospital like Hamidia see the opposite end too: advanced, neglected, and complicated cases that never got caught early.

Dr. Dubey's career spans both. That combination tends to produce a more cautious, thorough diagnostic habit — checking for the less obvious explanation rather than assuming the first, simplest one, because early public-hospital experience teaches a doctor how often the simple explanation turns out to be wrong.

Continuity

A Long-Term View of Respiratory Care

Many of the conditions Dr. Dubey treats — COPD, ILD, chronic asthma, post-TB lung damage — aren't one-time problems that get fixed and forgotten. They need ongoing monitoring, periodic PFTs to track lung function over time, and adjustments to treatment as a patient's condition changes with age or lifestyle.

Because he's the same doctor a patient sees on their first visit and five years later, there's continuity in that monitoring that's harder to maintain when patients rotate through different consultants at a larger multi-doctor hospital.

The Big Step

Beyond the Clinic: Building Anamay Chest Hospital

Founding a hospital is a very different undertaking from running a successful private clinic. A clinic can diagnose and manage most day-to-day respiratory complaints, but it can't admit a patient in respiratory failure, run a ventilator overnight, or perform a bronchoscopy safely without dedicated infrastructure.

Anamay Chest Hospital exists to close that gap — so that a patient who walks in with what looks like a routine cough, but turns out to need ICU-level care, doesn't have to be transferred across the city mid-crisis. That decision to build rather than simply refer out reflects a fairly hands-on view of what it means to be responsible for a patient's respiratory care from diagnosis through to recovery.

Still Hands-On

Continuing to Practice Hands-On Medicine

Owning and running a hospital could easily pull a doctor away from actual patient care and into administration. That hasn't been the case here — Dr. Dubey continues to see patients directly, run consultations personally, and stay involved in bronchoscopy and critical-care decisions rather than delegating clinical judgment entirely to a rotating staff.

For patients, that means the person whose name is on the door is generally the person actually reviewing your chest X-ray.

FAQ

About Page FAQ

He holds an MBBS from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, a DTCD from Mumbai, and a DNB in Respiratory Medicine from BGMC, Ahmedabad.

He has more than 25 years of clinical experience in respiratory and pulmonary medicine, starting at Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal.

He began at Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal, before founding his own allergy and asthma care centre in 2008 and later Anamay Chest Hospital, which he owns and runs.

Yes, alongside general pulmonology he runs a dedicated allergy and asthma practice offering testing and immunotherapy, going back to 2008.

Yes, he is a member of the National College of Chest Physicians and the Indian College of Bronchology.

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