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M.K. Stalin will lay the foundation stone for 17 projects worth of Rs.112.25 crore
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Culture, Departments, Information, PWD, Perambalur, Transport, government, hospital, programme on February 1st, 2010
Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will lay the foundation stone for 17 projects worth a total cost of Rs.112.25 crore in Perambalur district, inaugurate 115 development works that were completed worth Rs.23.23 crore and also distribute assistance to the tune of Rs.16.40 crore to 15,366 beneficiaries under various government welfare schemes at a function to be held here on February 4, said Collector M. Vijayakumar, on Monday.
Talking to media persons, the Collector said elaborate arrangements were being made for the Deputy Chief Minister’s visit here and pointed out that Mr. Stalin would lay the foundation stone for several projects including the construction of houses in the proposed Samathuvapuram at Ayanperaiyur panchayat, hospital buildings, laying of new roads and bridges.
The Collector said the Deputy Chief Minister would also inaugurate several completed projects including school and hospital buildings, bridges, roads and so forth at the function.
Madurai Aravind Eye Care System conferred ‘Pride of South Tamil Nadu’ Award
P. Namperumalsamy, Chairman, Aravind Eye Care System, receiving the award from M.M.Rajendran, former Orissa Governor, at Velammal College of Engineering and Technology in Madurai on Sunday. (From left) N. Murali, Managing Director, The Hindu, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, selection committee chairman, BCCI, M.V.Muthuramalingam, Velammal Educational Trust chairman
The Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai was commended by speakers in a function held here on Sunday where it was conferred the ‘Pride of South Tamil Nadu 2009’ Award by the Velammal Educational Trust for its distinguished success.
N. Murali, Managing Director, The Hindu, who presided the award presentation function, said that the beauty of Aravind model was that it charges only for 30 to 35 per cent of patients and the remaining get treatment almost free of cost.
“The hospital owes its success to its legendary founder G. Venkatasamy who evolved a model where low cost does not mean the standards were compromised,” he said.
“Dr.Venkatasamy’s dream was to eradicate treatable blindness and hence came out with a low cost health delivery model and that too not at the cost of excellence in treatment,” Mr. Murali said.
Stating that Aravind Eye Care System is a worthy and fitting institution for the award, he added that the Aravind model became a case study in business schools too.
M.M. Rajendran, former Governor of Orissa, said that Aravind Eye Care System has been a trailblazer in eye care and its cross subsidisation model is benefiting lakhs of people particularly in rural areas.
The award, carrying a cash prize of Rs.1 lakh and a memento, was instituted by the Velammal Educational Trust, and it will be presented every year to eminent achievers in southern Tamil Nadu.
P. Namperumalsamy, Chairman, Aravind Eye Care System, who received the award on behalf of the institution, said that the hospital’s founder took every obstacle as an opportunity.
M.V. Muthuramalingam, Chairman, Velammal Educational Trust, in his welcome address said that a chain of programmes were being organised in the group of Velammal educational institutions to motivate students for achieving success in their chosen fields.
Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Selection Committee Chairman, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), congratulated the Aravind Eye Care System and said that the award would motivate people to achieve more.
viral fever complaints Girl, admitted to GH with high fever, dies
Amidst reports of rising incidence of viral fever in the city, a 10-year-old girl, Sneha of Woraiyur, admitted to the K.A.P.Viswanatham Government Medical College Hospital with complaints of high fever died on Thursday morning.
Though there were initial suspicions that it was a case of dengue shock syndrome, Health Department and the Hospital authorities told The Hindu that the girl had tested negative for dengue after the serum test result was obtained later in the day.
The girl, a fifth standard student in a city school, was said to have been suffering from high fever for the past few days and was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday evening. She died in the early hours on Thursday. Health Department and Hospital sources said the exact cause of the death would have to be investigated, but suggested it could be a case of hemorrhagic fever.
Viral fever
In recent days, widespread incidence of viral fever has been reported, especially in the city. Patients reported with high fever and severe joint pain.
But there was no swelling of joints, one of the symptoms of chikungunya, Health Department sources said. Conceding that there was some incidence of viral fever in the city, Health Department and Corporation officials said that steps were being taken to check its spread.
Collector T.Soundiah, when contacted, said special teams have been constituted to monitor and check the spread of seasonal diseases in the wake of the onset of monsoon.
A Health Department official said teams comprising 10 temporary health workers each have been deployed in all the 14 blocks of the district. They have been assigned the duty of reducing mosquito breeding sources apart from carrying out fogging operations against adult mosquitoes.
In Tiruchi city, Corporation Health officials said steps have been taken to prevent stagnation of water to prevent breeding of mosquitoes. All drainage channels were being desilted.
Fogging on
Besides, bio-larvicide was been applied in required places and fogging was being carried out to control adult mosquitoes.
Fever surveillance and contact survey was also being done, especially in places where incidence of viral fever was being reported in the city, a Corporation official
Awareness needed on bad effects of tobacco: Collector
Posted by ganesh in Coimbatore, Other on November 12th, 2009
Concerted efforts by the Government to stop promotional advertisements of tobacco products and sensitisation drives have led to a decline in the number of new tobacco users.
While this is an encouraging sign, more awareness on the ill-effects needs to be generated to wean the existing users from smoking or chewing tobacco, District Collector P. Umanath said here on Wednesday.
Opening a Tobacco Cessation Centre at G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Dr. Umanath said the habit of smoking had thrived because a social stigma had not been attached to it, unlike in the case of alcohol consumption.
There was not much pressure on a smoker from the people around to quit the habit. Apart from addiction, this was the other factor that contributed to people continuing to use tobacco products.
The Collector termed the opening of the centre as a rare initiative that was the need of the hour.
People needed help to stop using tobacco. So such guidance centres became very relevant to the drive against tobacco use, he pointed out.
“Give wide publicity on the centre as people should know of such a facility that can save them from the dangers posed by tobacco use,” he told the hospital.
Dean of the hospital Ramkumar Raghupathy said Tobacco Cessation Centres were few in number across the country and the centre opened here on Wednesday was only the 19th in the country.
Such centres were important in disseminating information to the people on the cancer in the mouth, aesophagus, lungs and the heart diseases that tobacco could cause.
“Many legal battles have brought out the ill-effects of tobacco. World Health Organisation reports say 65 per cent of the men smoke and 20 per cent chew tobacco. The Tobacco Cessation Centre has been opened with the view that valuable lives should not go up in smoke,” he said.
The centre was a joint initiative of the hospital, the Valavadi Narayanaswamy Cancer Centre (VNCC) attached to it and the Coimbatore Cancer Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industry.
Counselling, nicotine rehabilitation therapy and drug treatment would form the individual intervention. Exhibitions and distribution of handbills or booklets would constitute the sensitisation component.
Explaining the objective of the centre, Consultant Medical Oncologist said the VNCC not only focussed on treating cancer but also in preventing it. The opening of the cessation centre reflected this objective.
About 12 crore people smoked cigarettes or other products and three crore used non-smoking tobacco.
The world recorded the sale of 5.5 trillion cigarettes and 10 lakh cancer deaths every year.
The monsoon is here and so also the fear of diseases. Now, focus on health hazards
The monsoon is here and so also the fear of diseases. Hospitals and doctors are preparing themselves for the inflow of patients who will come with complaints ranging from simple body ache and flu to serious complications as a result of walking in the stagnant puddles of rainwater.
Some common diseases during this season are acute gastroenteritis, typhoid, dysentery, malaria, cholera and leptospirosis and skin problems. On Saturday, the Chennai Corporation launched its medical camps in all 10 zones with a special emphasis on slums, said Health Officer P. Kuganantham.
Leptospirosis, a bacterial disease, could be caused by walking on stagnant rainwater. The disease spreads through the urine of infected rats and from contaminated vegetables and fruits. People are advised to boil water and add chlorine tablets to their overhead tanks and sumps. The civic body has been to spray insecticides on waterways and stagnant pools of water to curb breeding of mosquitoes.
Director of Public Health S. Elango said there was a drastic fall in malaria and dengue cases in Chennai Corporation limits. The aim now is to address water-borne diseases. Under Section 62 of the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act of 1939, private medical institutions are required to inform the Corporation’s Health Officer about notifiable diseases. The government has distributed Rs.10,000 to each village health sanitation committee to help the local bodies to maintain proper sanitation, Dr. Elango said.
Doctors advise people to desist from open air defecation which is the major reason for spread of acute gastroenteritis.
A major problem associated with walking on stagnant pools of water is injury, resulting in infection to the feet. The Government Stanley Hospital’s Diabetology Department receives quite a number of patients after rain. Though there is better awareness of the disease, problems crop up as people walk barefoot resulting in foot ulcers, said R. Madhavan, head of Diabetology, Government Stanley Hospital.
Problems are compounded in persons who have lost sensation in their foot. “They are not aware of the injury and are susceptible to infection. Simple measures such as teaching the patients to clean their wounds and explaining the cleaning regimen at Corporation health posts would help,”
Erode hospital gets high-tech equipment for radiotherapy
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Apollo Hospital has moved towards providing global care in cancer treatment with the launch of CyberKnife.
A.N. Vaidhyswaran, MD, senior consultant, Apollo Speciality Cancer Hospital told journalists in Erode on Sunday that with “the world’s first and only” robotic radio surgery system, the Hospital had so far treated 100 persons with intracranial, spine, lung and prostrate tumours.
A handout issued by the Hospital says CyberKnife is a state-of-the-art radiotherapy equipment for robotic radio surgery that allows radiation oncologists to treat pathologies painlessly, without the need for an operation.
It uses pencil beams of radiation which can be directed at any part of the body, from any direction with the help of a robotic arm. The system tracks the tumour’s position, detects any movement of the tumour, and automatically corrects its positioning.
It then targets the tumour with multiple beams of high-energy radiation, destroying abnormal tissue without damaging surrounding areas.
No anaesthesia
Dr. Vaidhyswaran told reporters that the “sophisticated” treatment could be used as an alternative to open surgery, as it does not cause pain and therefore do not require anaesthesia. He added that the recovery time was quick and many of the complicated procedures associated with other conventional cancer therapies were minimised or eliminated by the CyberKnife system. Dr. T.P. Bharadwaj, haematologist, Apollo Hospitals, also participated and spoke about common blood diseases and cancer.
He said about 50 per cent of the Indian population was affected by anaemia. Pointing out that one-third of children of school-going age were anaemic, he said.
“Although Iron density in boys and girls was similar, the lower food intake by adolescent girls compared to boys, combined with menstrual losses, causes adolescent girls to be at great risk of iron-deficiency anaemia.” Dr. Bharadwaj also said that about 70 per cent of women suffered anaemia during pregnancy, which was caused by poor dietary intake of iron and other reasons.
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