MP Sanjeev Arora seeks Nitin Gadkari for emergency healthcare at all Toll plazas. Rajya Sabha MP from Ludhiana, Sanjeev Arora has made a formal plea to the Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari, to establish emergency health care and trauma services at all toll plazas across the country. Arora, in a letter … Read more
Doctors at PGI Set Up ‘Open OPD’ Amid Protest Over Kolkata Doctor’s Death. As doctors at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research continued their agitation against the alleged sexual assault and killing of a resident doctor in Kolkata, they opened an ‘Open OPD’ at the protest site – a unique form of … Read more
The PGI Chandigarh Faculty Association announced that all OPD services at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research will remain closed on August 17, though emergency and critical care services will continue. Chd Docs on road demanding Justice for Moumita, the kolkata rape case victim who has succumbed to this horror. The out-patient … Read more
Resident Doc Suicide attempt Row: Every department’s collegium will have a student representative as a part of it: Director, PGIMER Amid a lot of Social media bashing, placing an Associate professor’s photo on social media calling him a “toxic professor”, PGIMER Resident Suicide attempt row settled amicably. In this whole matter, it was observed that … Read more
Doctors at PGIMER, Chandigarh conducted a study with the name of MucoCovi (Muco from mucormycosis, Covi from COVID119) at 16 centres across the country and found that the most common sites of infection were found to be nose with eye involvement (in 58% cases) followed by nose with eye and brain involvement (27% cases) and … Read more
Majority of Samples are from Chandigarh 20 percent samples had 681 H mutant of COVID 19 High Transmission rate of UK Variant leaves no room for any compromise with Covid Appropriate Behavior; Director PGIMER With COVID 19 cases surging at a rate much faster in the second wave than the first wave, PGI reported having … Read more
150 plus in GMSH 16, 100 plus GMCH 32 went positive so far in this COVID period 1457 HCWs in PGIMER, Chandigarh went positive so far and 219 Health Care workers from PGI are currently home isolated. 150 plus HCWs from GMSH 16 and 100 plus from GMCH 32 so far have turned COVID positive … Read more
On 15th Foundation Day of Advanced Eye Centre PGIMER, Chandigarh released a reference book on “Uveitis” the Uvea services of the department released a reference book on Uveitis that is the first of its kind live Atlas. The book is edited by Prof Vishali Gupta and Dr Aniruddha Agarwal along with editors from Paris and … Read more
Special on WORLD SLEEP DAY COVID could be more dangerous for Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is the mother of all major cardiac morbidities and other morbidities in adults as well children PGIMER ENT Department sees about 15 new patients with OSA every month and undertakes about 20-25 Sleep Studies a month. Even during covid times … Read more
First-time in world, the innovative technique that has been developed for the Cushing Disease patients, PGIMER set another benchmark as Deptt. of Endocrinology and Deptt. of Nuclear Medicine collaborated to develop a novel imaging modality Ga 68 CRH PET-CT for the diagnosis of Cushing’s disease. Prof. Sanjay Kumar Bhadada Head, Deptt. of Endocrinology and other … Read more