Sickle Cell patients still await travel Concessions
Nagpur: After demands of Sickle Cell Society of India, a government resolution was issued in March 2015, allowing patients with genetic blood disorder sickle cell disease, to travel for free along with one companion in state transport buses. Nevertheless, what...
Daga hospital fails to establish Pregnancy Water Testing Centre, even after granted funds
Nagpur: Even after being provided with the fund and a notice from the Health Department, Daga hospital has failed to open Pregnancy Water testing centre for the couples affected with sickle cell disease. It is the people in need of...
CSI’s, Vidarbha Chapter & CTS hold CME on Left Main Coronary Artery Disease
Nagpur: Cardiological Society of India, Vidarbha Chapter in Association with Cardio thoracic Society had jointly organised a CME on “How do I Treat Left Main Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)?” at Hotel Tuli Imperial Ramdaspeth, Nagpur. Yesterday 19-07-2017. Dr. Anuj Sarda, Interventional...
King’s College Hospital to invest 1000 crore in Nagpur
File Pic Nagpur: London based internationally renowned King's College Hospital, will soon be investing One thousand crore rupees in the SEZ Mihan area of the city. The King’s College Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust and Indo-UK Health-care Pvt. Ltd plan to...
Curaa: Nagpur man starts a portal where Doctors can find the right hospital in India
Nagpur: "www.cura.in" is a unique Doctors’ Recruitment Portal with major hospitals and IT companies in India. Launched in February 2017, “Curaa” a brain child of Arjun Shrivastava has begun its operations with the aim to accelerate the growth rate of...
Alternative Therapy : Know how Kerala panchkarma cured man ailing from chronic backache!
Nagpur: Treating a patient cannot be a ‘touch n go’ thing ever. It is not like that doctors are chanting few things and are just making miracles in seconds. Or in other words its not as simple as SRK just...
Health Threat : Nagpur schools violating mid-day meals testing rule
Representational Pic Nagpur: The Mid Day Meal programme being undertaken in various government schools in Nagpur district has once again caught on the wrong end of the rules. This time the issue being raised is rather serious as it is...
Social worker organises blood donation camp at Mayo hosp on his B’day
Nagpur: A blood donation camp was organized at MAYO hospital recently on the Birthday of well known social worker Deepak Anna. It was held in the in the premises of Hospital itself . All the preparations such as arrangement of...
Doctors won’t be able to make ‘cut’ anymore, as State govt forms committee
Nagpur: Nagpur being the only major medical hub in Central India is fast becoming the notorious den for commissions and cuts, highly prevalant among doctors. Taking the issue of cut practice in medical profession seriously, the state government has formed a...
Mock fire rescue drill conducted at Suretech Hospital
Nagpur: The Fire and Emergency Services Department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation conducted a mock rescue and evacuation drill at Dhantoli-based Suretech Hospital recently. The Department had imparted evacuation training to 100 staffers of the Hospital on June 6. To check...
Nitesh Khonde: meet the Doctor with the gentle healing touch, with Ayurveda instead of surgery!
Nagpur: "If you have a parent who has been advised the costly and painful knee replacement surgery, or any surgery for the spine; if you are suffering from what seems like incurable spondilitis , please give Ayurveda a chance to...
Wockhardt Hospital in city performs 100th kidney transplant
Nagpur: The local Wockhardt Hospital, one of the pioneers in healthcare, achieved one more milestone by performing 100th kidney transplant successfully. The hospital has become the first in Vidarbha to achieve this feat. The kidney transplant was done on a 63-year...
Family of a brain dead man saves lives of 3 persons, provides sight to 2 blind & relief to many burn victims
Nagpur: Vinayak Ramrao Deshkar, Age 67 yrs, resident of Plot No. 36, Madhuban Layout Narendra Nagar, Nagpur was admitted at Trinity Hospital, Nagpur on 16.06.2017 under care of Dr. Shailesh Pitale with history of Hypertension, Diabetes, Hypothyroidism, old CVE and...
NOGS held a CME on Thyroid & GDM
Nagpur: Taking into consideration the increase rise in the patients of Hypothyridism & Diabetes in Pregnacy a deliberation was organized by NOGS for its members. President AMS ( Academy of Medical Sciences) Dr Pramod Gandhi was the Chief Guest &...
Mayo Hospital equipped with e-stretchers, e-rickshaws for better service to patients
Nagpur: Initiating further steps to better patient services, Mayo Hospital (Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital) has been equipped with e-stretchers, e-loaders and e-rickshaws under a pilot project funded by the District Planning Committee (DPC). The DPC has given...
WHO confirms three Zika virus cases in Ahmedabad, 1st in the country
Ahmedabad: The World Health Organization confirmed the first three cases of Zika virus in India, as having been reported from Ahmedabad, which includes a pregnant lady tested this January. All the cases are from the Bapunagar area of the city. Confirming...
NOGS held a CME on Foetal Medicine
Nagpur: National Medico legal co-ordinator from Pune Dr Manish Machave was the chief guest for this CME Dr Pooja Lodha from Pune & Dr Neelam Chhajed from Nagpur, both Foetal Medicine specialist were the faculties. Different topics like Overview of Prenatal...
Straight from the heart: The plight of the medical profession today
Representational Pic Nagpur: IMA is the voice and represents the collective consciousness of the medical profession in the country. It practically covers all the doctors in India directly through its membership of 3 lakhs, spread over 30 States and 17...
Will Rs 100 cr change fate of Super Speciality Hosp in Nagpur?
Nagpur: The now functioning and then defunct machines, lack of diagnostic tools and infrastructure have been marring the Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) for over a long time. The fate of SSH is set to change now as the Maharashtra Chief...
How safe are sanitary pads in India?
New Delhi: A woman enters the store, picks up a pack or mumbles the name of the brand she wants under her breath to the storekeeper, who proceeds to wrap the product in an old newspaper and hands it to...
Live TEE workshop held
Nagpur: Under the aegis of Cardiothoracic Society (CTS),Nagpur and Dr K G Deshpande memorial Centre, Nagpur a live TEE(trans-esophageal echocardiography) workshop on a case of Mitral Volve Replacement (MVR) was organised on May 13 , 2017, Saturday, from 9 am-...
