Category: Amazing Feats

INDIA RECORDS: HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES: Dr. Rohit Shetty, Bengaluru based Doctor-Scientist, Vice Chairman of Narayana Nethralaya, is the First Kannadiga to be included in ‘The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022’

The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022 is a roll call of achievers in clinical practice and vision research.

Bengaluru-based cornea-refractive surgeon and translational scientist Rohit Shetty has been named as one of the Top 100 most inspiring and influential ophthalmologists of the world by The Ophthalmologist magazine. Dr Shetty is the first Kannadiga to make it to the ‘power list’.

The Ophthalmologist Power List 2022 is a roll call of achievers in clinical practice and vision research. The list is prepared from a lineup of 450 names by an international panel of 20 judges.

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WORLD RECORDS: HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES: Guinness World Record to Dr. Shanthala Thuppanna of Sakra World Hospital for the Highest Number of Fibroids Removed

A 34-year-old journalist and former TV anchor, Ritika Sharma from Bengaluru, has set a new Guinness World Record for getting the highest number of fibroids removed from her uterus. The patient had 236 fibroids removed, which included a large cauliflower-shaped fibroid measuring up to 20 X 20 X 10 cm and many other smaller fibroids of different sizes, weighing 2,250 grams in total. 

This complex surgical procedure was performed in October last year by Shanthala Thuppanna, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sakra World Hospital in Bengaluru.

The title certificate was presented by Guinness World Record adjudicator Swapnil Dangarikar to the patient and her doctor in the city on Thursday

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 ALL INDIA RECORDS: Karnataka Third in the Country for Medical Consultations via eSanjeevani

Union Health Ministry’s flagship telemedicine service has registered more than three crore teleconsultations till now.

The state government has been awarded third place in the country for in number of medical consultations (25,03,995) through the eSanjeevani platform at the Ayushman Bharath Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWC) since its inception in December 2020. It is a doctor-to-doctor telemedicine service to provide general and specialised health services in rural areas through the ‘Hub-and-Spoke’ model.

The award was given in the ‘Strengthening Healthcare to the Last Mile’ category to mark the 4th anniversary of the setting up of AB-HWCs. The Union Health Ministry’s flagship telemedicine service eSanjeevani has registered more than three crore tele-consultations and the state government has provided medical consultations to 47,68,123 people in total as on April 15.

The state stands third in the category where patients are provided the service at the HWCs after Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal.

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HEALTH INTIATIVES : Free Clinic on Wheels’ Initiative in Bangalore by Parikrama-Indiassetz to Serve Underprivileged Communities

The Prana Mobile Units will serve underprivileged communities in Bengaluru, spanning 110 slums and covering a population of 20000.

Parikrma Humanity Foundation and Indiassetz have come together to launch the ‘Prana – Clinic on Wheels’ initiative – Primary Roaming Augmented Neo-Medical Aid. The mobile unit will serve as a Mobile ICU Oxygen Support unit with 4 beds that will provide emergency support to a critical patient by providing doctors consultation on call, Mobile vaccination administrator too.  

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ARTS & CULTURE: FIRST: Rahul Amin’s ‘Raj Sounds and Lights’ First Tulu Movie to Premiere in 11 countries

The World Tulu premiere of Rahul Amin directorial Raj Sounds and Lights will be held in 11 countries and 6 major cities in India

The inauguration will be held on April 24 at Hotel Marco Polo Al Mateena St Deira, Dubai and the invitation of the same was released on Monday, April 18.

The premiere will be in USA, United Kingdom, Bahrain, Kuwait, Nigeria, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, UAE ( Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah) and Oman.

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ARTS & CULTURE: HISTORY: Prof. Ravi Korisettar, NIAS-Bengaluru, gets MP Government’s Dr. Vishnu Sridhar Wakankar National Award

Ravi Korisettar, adjunct professor at NIAS, Bengaluru, and honorary director of Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum, Ballari, has been chosen by the Madhya Pradesh Government for the Dr. Vishnu Sridhar Wakankar national award for 2018.

Prof. Korisettar served in the Department of History and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad, from 1989 to 2013.

His discovery of the youngest Toba tuff (YTT), volcanic ash of Sumatra origin, in peninsular river deposits has been hailed as a ‘great discovery’ and its significance in dating the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic has brought the Indian subcontinent to the forefront of the debate on the expansion of modern humans out of Africa.

Prof. Korisettar is credited with the discovery of a large number of prehistoric painted rock shelters in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh which led to a series of investigations on identifying suitable dating methods for rock art and understanding the non-material culture of the authors of these paintings.

He was co-editor of Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India (Geological Society of India,1995), The Rise of Early Human Behaviour in Global Context (Routledge,1998), Indian Archaeology in Retrospect (ICHR and Manohar [4 volumes], 2001/2), and a special issue of Quaternary International (vol. 258, 2011) and editor of  Beyond Stone and More Stones (Vo. 1: 2017 and Vol. 2: 2018).

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GUINNESS WORLD RECORD: ‘Most Pledges Plaque to Manipal’s Kasturba Hospital of Stroke Awareness Programme’

Stroke is an important non-communicable disease. One in four adults will experience a stroke in their lifetime. To raise the awareness about stroke, on the eve of World Stroke day October 29, 2021, Department of Neurosciences, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal conducted a stroke awareness campaign.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal along with various other institutions in India participated in creating stroke pledges for awareness through a stroke assessment App as an initiative taken by BoehringerIngelheim India, and attempted to create a Guinness World Record of ‘Most pledges received for a stroke awareness campaign’.

Kasturba Hospital, Manipal gave significant contributions and by creating a total of 17,691 pledges all over India, a Guinness World Record was successfully created.

The hospital also conducted stroke screening activities by Blood pressure and blood sugar check along with stroke awareness and education to over 500 patients/participants attending KH OPD. The pledge registration for all attempts was held on the portal https://strokeriskcalculator.in.

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FIRST TIME IN BENGALURU: In a First, Three Green Corridors Created on a Single Day for an Organ Donation

Cadaveric organ donation got a boost in the city on Wednesday with three zero-traffic green corridors created on a single day to transport vital organs from different hospitals.

Authorities from Jeevasarthakathe, the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO), which is the nodal agency that facilitates cadaver organ donations, said this is the first time that three green corridors had been created on a single day. There were back-to-back organ donations since Tuesday evening and two green corridors were also created on Tuesday night – one in Mangaluru and another in Bengaluru.

“We placed the requests for three green corridors with the Bengaluru traffic police in a gap of 30 minutes. While one green corridor was created at 10 a.m. on Wednesday from Manipal Hospitals on Old Airport Road to BGS Global Hospitals in Mysuru (to transport a liver), another was created at 10.30 a.m. from Aster RV hospital to MS Ramaiah-Narayana Hrudayalaya (to transport a heart). At 11 a.m., another corridor was created from the same hospital (Aster RV) to Bengaluru International airport to transport donated lungs to KIMS, Secunderabad.

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GLOBAL – FIRST IN INDIA: Bengaluru, First Indian City to join the global Silk City Network

Bengaluru has become the first Indian city to get into the global network of silk cities, celebrated French textile artist Isabelle Moulin said in Kolkata, expressing hope that in the next few years West Bengal’s Murshidabad district — known to produce fine silk in the over the past 300 years — may join the global silk city network.

“Two days ago, I launched the membership of Bengaluru — the first Indian city in the global Silk City network.

Now, we have nine countries and 13 cities.

If everything goes fine, then with time, I hope ‘Murshidabad Silk’ too can make it to the network.

The network helps artisans and craftsmen to exchange knowledge, build trade relations and understand various craftsmanship techniques,” Ms. Moulin said during an interactive session with select media persons at Kolkata’s Oxford Bookstore.

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WORLD RECORDS: Tallest Statue of Panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy in Tumakuru District

Chief  Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said that there will be good times ahead for Karnataka as he unveiled the 161-ft tall Panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy statue, touted to be the world’s tallest, installed by Basaveshwara Mutt at Bidanagere in Kunigal taluk of Tumakuru district.

“Panchamukhi  Anjaneya is a special form of Hanuman, which is mentioned in the Ramayana.  

Hanuman took this form for the welfare of the world. It is the divine wish of Hanuman to have his 161-ft tall statue installed in Karnataka.  

The sculptors have done a wonderful job,” Bommai added.

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