ISA holds cultural evening to mark World Anaesthesia Day
Nagpur: The Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA) Nagpur Branch organised a cultural evening 'Fusion' on Tuesday, October 16 to mark the World Anaesthesia Day. The event was held at IMA's J.R Shaw Auditorium. The evening witnessed all the ISA...
MANAHSPARSH conducts free mental health checkups across Nagpur
Nagpur: With an aim to provide an insightful experience about the importance and relevance of mental health, MANAHSPARSH organises interactive and experiential exhibition - PSYCH-Ed every year. To celebrate the Mental Health Month, October, Psych-Ed 2018 is...
Chandrapur doc discovers epidural syringe costing 5 times less than imported one
Nagpur: In this tech savvy world where the technology is going places and medical science is advancing in the new age, the cost of treatments and equipments is also rising. Dr Sunil Dixit an anaesthesiologist at Chandrapur who...
Workshop for doctors working in PHCs, rural hosps
A special Workshop for Doctors working in Primary Health Centres and Rural Hospitals was conducted at CHINTAN Auditorium hall of Deputy Directorate of Health Services (DDHS) South Ambazari Road, Nagpur in association with, Association of Maharashtra Gynecological & Obstetrics Societies...
Contaminated Polio Vaccines Given To Kids In Maharashtra
New Delhi/Nagpur: Some vials of the oral polio vaccines contaminated with the type-2 polio virus were administered to children in Maharashtra and Telengana, besides Uttar Pradesh, Health Ministry officials confirmed. The vials were manufactured by a Ghaziabad-based pharmaceutical company. The ministry has...
Ultra modern modular operation theatre inaugurated at RST Cancer Hospital
Nagpur: The ultra modern modular operation theatre was inaugurated at Rashtrasant Tukdoji Regional Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (RST-RCH), in city at the hands of Dr Rajiv Bore, Vice Chancellor, DMIMS, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha on Monday. The inauguration of ultra modern...
World Heart Day: Learn it from the Doctor
In India, heart disease-related deaths are on rise and account for as much as a quarter of all deaths in the country On World Heart Day, Dr.Aziz Khan - a Consultant - Interventional Cardiology at Crescent Hospital & Heart...
India witness more death rate than western countries due to cancer.
Nagpur: The risk of Cancer is seemingly increasing day by day as more and more people are prone to different types of cancer in the country though the reasons vary in every case which appears before the doctors....
25 GMCH resident doctors diagnose with dengue
Representational Image Nagpur: The apathy of Government Medical College and Hospital’s (GMCH) administration seems not to take a pause anytime soon. Such casual approach of the hospital’s administration has cost 25 of the resident doctors to suffer from a vector-borne...
Nagpur to have new liver transplant centre at GMC
With over 358 patients waiting to get their liver transplant surgery done in Pune alone, the growing number of patients needing a transplant has now forced the state health department to plan two more new centres for liver transplant surgeries....
MCI’s “all is well” report on GMCH busted with dubious findings
Nagpur: Though patients and students continue to suffer in Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) due to paltry resources and inadequate facilities, the inspection report from the Medical Council of India (MCI) seems contrary and sees “all is well” in...
SC lifts ban from Saridon, 2 other combination drugs
The Supreme Court has allowed the sale of Saridon, Piriton Expectorant and Dart -- three brands that found themselves in a long list of combination medicines that the health ministry banned last week for being "irrational" and "risky" for patients....
Flawed angiography machine puts SSH patients in the dock
Nagpur: It’s been over one year that the angiography machine at the Super Speciality Hospital (SSH) at Government Medical Hospital has been functioning irregularly and has even went idle several times during operations. A source informed Nagpur Today that...
Govt Bans Saridon and 327 Other Drugs Due to Health Risk to Patients
New Delhi: The Ministry of Health on Wednesday banned the manufacture for sale or distribution of 328 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs with immediate effect. Besides, it has also restricted the manufacture, sale or distribution of six FDCs subject to certain conditions,...
Implementation of HIV/AIDS Act begins
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has announced implementation of the HIV and AIDS Act, 2017 starting September 10, 2018. Passed on April 20, 2017, the Act prohibits discrimination against people with HIV in terms of of treatment, employment and...
GMCH’s eye check-up camps examine 1373 patients
Nagpur: Under their parent initiative ‘eye donation fortnight’, Department of Ophthalmology, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Nagpur had organized eye check-up camps in various places examining total 1373 patients across the city between August 25 and September 7, 2018. To...
Scrub Typhus claims 12 lives in Nagpur
NAGPUR: Four people suffering from Scrub Typhus have died in the last three days in Nagpur taking the total number of casualties from this disease to 12 in the district. Around 44 people were diagnosed positive with Scrub Typhus whereas 60...
Eye check-up camp by GMCH
Nagpur: Department of Ophthalmology, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Nagpur organized an eye check-up camp as a part of their initiative ‘eye donation fortnight’ at Gayatri Mandir, Gayatri Nagar, IT Park on Monday. The team comprising Dr Kanchan Selukar, lecturer,...
Intercollegiate Quiz Organised by Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists Nagpur City Branch
Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists Nagpur City Branch conducted Dr. Malti Phadke Intercollegiate Anaesthesiology PG Quiz at VSPM Dental College, NKPSIMS, Nagpur in which teams of PG students of Anaesthesia from medical colleges of all over Vidarbha like GMC, IGGMC, NKPSIMS,...
City surgeon Dr Sushrut Rajan performs Central India’s first ever SPAIRE hip replacement
Nagpur: Dr. Sushrut Rajan, noted Joint Replacement and Reconstruction surgeon, has successfully conducted hip replacement using the novel minimally invasive tendon sparing SPAIRE approach. This is the first case to be done in Central India. Patients from Central India can...
Pre Anaesthetic checkup clinic : Need of an hour
Anaesthesiology is a separate established speciality of field of Medicine . It is the branch of science which has expanded its spectrum and has witnessed exuberant advancement as far as technology, research and modernisation of methodology is concerned. The evolution...
