Which corporate hospital in Hyderabad has the best Facebook Cover image? “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead Most of you thought it is Apollo Health City's Facebook cover image but it's not. Surprised? Read on. Though Apollo Health City Facebook page has 65k followers, using a generic campaign creative on its cardiac treatment expertise looks vague. My feeling is that either a patient or a star heart transplant surgeon should have been at the heart of the cover image. In case of the latter, my bet is on Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Cardio Thoracic Surgeon, who could have been featured instead but the management may be wary of a doctor becoming bigger than the hospital. This creative goes well with the violet color of Care Hospitals but the designer should have run a spell-check on November! By the way, lung cancer being the most common cancer in Indian men could be factually incorrect. It s...
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ANBAI recognizes Yashoda Hospital's DNB prog with a special award
Hyderabad: There is good news for medicos in Hyderabad as few more specialty medical seats might soon come their way what with the Association of National Board Accreditated Institutions (ANBAI) recognizing Yashoda Hospitals as ‘Center of Excellence in teaching for DNB programme/NBE Accredited Hospital’. The Hospital management was awarded with a special Scroll of Honor at a special function organized on 5th September at NBE campus in New Delhi. On behalf of Yashoda Group of Hospitals Dr A. Lingaiah, the Medical Director - have received the Award. Recognized by Govt. Of India as equivalent to MS., MD in specialties and super specialties in medical education, Yashoda Hospital's DNB programme is accredited by National Board of Examinations (NBE) for 17 years and is considered one of the leading ones in the entire country. Excellence in DNB programmes Presently, Yashoda Hospitals is offering 29 DNB Medicine programmes. In last 10 years, 685 medical prof...
What this Indian film director wrote to Maneka Gandhi on child sexual abuse?
End the Isolation T his is one of the strangest petitions to have ever come up on change.org platform started by a couple from Mumbai, decades after they realized they needed to come forward from their isolation as victims of child sexual abuse. The change.org petition calls upon Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women & Child Development, to order an in-depth study on male child sexual abuse in India and take steps to bring such criminals to justice. Insia Dariwala. Image courtesy her Linkedin profile Their chilling painful journey as child sexual survivors would shake anyone's conscience to think how some negative childhood incidents are difficult to erase from our memories. "I was 10 when I was sexually abused. Men who I had dearly trusted had violated me. The violation became a part of my life. It continued," writes Insia Dariwala, writer-director, child activist and founder of The Hands of Hope Foundation. With her traumatic past, the petitioner c...
Techie dies at Continental hospital, organs donated
The kin of young techie S Shashidhar, 27, S/o Sadashiva S. Doddappagol and Nimbeevva was donated his organs to Jeevandan Cadaver Transplantation Programme after treating doctors at Continental hospital declared him brain dead. A resident of Bagalkot, Karnataka, Shashidhar was working in a private IT company in Hyderabad and was about to join a new company in UK in two months but fate had something else in store for the promising youth. While returning from his office at 10 pm on 30th August on his two-wheeler, an unknown vehicle hit him at Kokapet. He sustained severe head injuries and was immediately shifted to Continental hospital for treatment. However, following a surgery, Shashidhar did not respond to treatment and was declared brain dead by treating Neuro Physician due to “Severe Head Injury”. Following counselling by Jeevandan transplant coordinators, his kin donated his heart, kidneys, liver and corneas.
Why national IMA wants action against a cabinet minister?
Teachers' day lesson for doctors You may be a top-notch medical expert in your specialisation concerned with a high self-esteem and standing among your peers, but everything can come to a naught in one single moment. In India, your reputation, qualifications, the international conferences you attended as a special invitee, the standing among your peer group and medicos can bite the dust if you commit the mistake of treating the mother or any relative of a politician. Well, mother's position is equal to God but the doctors too enjoyed the same position until recently but seem to have turned demonic these days as they are being used as punching bags by all and sundry by those who do not have any understanding of medicine! It is important to understand the work profile of a doctor. Unlike a politician flaunting his VIP status with security and his henchmen following the convoy and doing most of his works through phone calls, a doctor attends to each of his patien...
When travel is not the right choice, baby!
Hyderabad: There could be too many folks hooked up with Game of Thrones series catching up with scary action scenes these days, but ever imagined such a scene can unfold in real life -- albeit in a different way! What would be your reaction when, while onboard, you are witness to someone sitting next you get a heart attack, and you found that neither you nor the airline staff could do much to help at that point of time. You wished you could do something but the cardiac patient needed immediate hospitalisation in a tertiary care. The above is an excerpt from a blog post written by Dr. M.S.S. Mukharjee, senior interventional cardiologist and the director of the department of Cardiology, Maxcure Hospitals, Hyderabad. Read the full blog story by clicking this link.
News Analysis: Namesake Authorization Committee @ Continental Hospitals to blame for Kidney mess?
For more updates, log on to www.dailyhealthnewsdigest.com The alleged kidney racket in continental hospitals may have shocked medical fraternity in Hyderabad after Gachibowli police registered a case against Harish Manian, Continental Hospital chief operating officer, Gokul Prem Kumar, general manager, international business and Ramesh Kirshnan, CEO for reportedly allowing kidney transplantation from unrelated donors. It may be recalled that cases were booked under Sections 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using forged document), 420 (cheating) and 506 (criminal intimidation) and Sections 19 and 19A of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act (HOTA) based on complaint lodged by Dr Praveen Kumar, former medical director of Continental Hospital. They may be unrelated Bangladeshi or African donors but what is not clear as to how the Telangana government's so called Transplant Authorization Committee allowed the lapses to take pl...