Category: Health & Medical Services

INDIA RECORDS : KARNATAKA RECORDS: Centre Recognises Karnataka’s Progress in Malaria Eradication Awards ‘Certificate of Appreciation’

The state health department has progressed from Category 2 to Category 1 status between 2015 and 2021.

The Union Health Department has awarded the State Department of Health and Family Welfare with a certificate of appreciation, in recognition of its performance towards malaria eradication. The state health department has progressed from Category 2 to Category 1 status between 2015 and 2021.

According to Dr Ramesh K Kaulgud, Joint Director-NVBDCP, Directorate of Health and Family Welfare Services, there were 7,381 cases of malaria in 2017, 5,289 in 2018, 3,499 in 2019, 1,701 in 2020 and 913 in 2021.

Speaking about the achievement, Dr Ramesh said malaria prevention and control activities are implemented across the state as per the directives of National Centre for Vector Borne Disease Control, Government of India.

The surveillance parameters as defined by the programme guidelines have been achieved, facilitating the state to progress towards the set goal of complete eradication.

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INDIA RECORDS: KARNATAKA RECORDS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : INVENTION : IISc-Bangalore Develops 3D Print Glove to Aid Long-Distance Physiotherapy for Stroke Victims

Physiotherapy is the often-used method to treat victims of stroke.

 In a world where digitisation is becoming prevalent, the IISc has developed 3D printed gloves to help aid in long-distance physiotherapy for stroke patients. One of the leading causes of death in India, strokes are also known to be a major cause of disabilities.

Physiotherapy is the often-used method to treat victims of stroke. However, with the recent pandemic, in-person physiotherapy sessions for patients have been a challenge. “Physiotherapy often requires daily hospital visits. Home visits by professionals or sophisticated devices to monitor patients remotely, although ideal, are not readily available and are expensive,” the researchers said.

From the institute’s department of physics, the researchers developed a 3d printed glove that uses light to sense a patient’s movements. “We wanted to develop something affordable, and available to a person at all times at their convenience.

The product should be easy to use and must provide feedback,” says Aveek Bid, an associate professor of physics and one of the researchers.

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KARNATAKA RECORDS : ‘Sarvottama Seva Awards’ Conferred On State Government Officers And Staff

In recognition of their services at various Government sectors, a total of 20 State Government officers and staff were conferred with ‘Sarvottama Seva Awards’ for the year 2021 and 2022 at a programme jointly organised by the District Administration and Karnataka State Government Employees Association at Kalamandira in city this morning as part of State Government Employees Day celebrations.

They are with MLA L. Nagendra, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. Bagadi Gautham, Zilla Panchayat (ZP) CEO B.R. Poornima and others.

The awardees include — 2021:

Dr. M. Sadashivappa, Senior Pulmonologist, PKTB and CD Hospital;

H.L. Manjunath, Senior Assistant Director, Kannada and Culture Department;

D.M. Rani, Assistant Director, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Department;

G. Ravi Shankar, Junior Training Officer; Narahari, Development Officer, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj;

G. Satish Babu, Office Superintendent, ESI Hospital;

K.B. Shantala, Nursing Superintendent;

Hilda D’Souza, Senior Nursing Officer, K.R. Hospital

T.G. Sripathi, Bailiff, District Court.

2022:

Dr. H.M. Chandrakala, Medical Officer, Health Department; 

H. Channappa, Assistant Director, Kannada and Culture Department;

A.D. Jayalakshmi Bai, Superintendent, District Institute of Education and Training (DIET);

G. Varadaraju, Superintendent, Agriculture Department;

Sreenivas Raj Urs, First Division Assistant (FDA), Revenue Department;

G.N. Prasanna, Junior Training Officer, Government Industrial Training Institute;

G. Krishna Prasad, FDA, Police Department;

Karigowda, Assistant, Horticulture Department;

M.L. Vishwanath, Superintendent, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj

Zulfikar Kalligudi, FDA, Employment Exchange Department.

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KARNATAKA RECORDS: HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES: Celebrations of Assisted Birth of 10,000 Babies & 33 Years of Services of Manipal Assisted Reproduction Centre (MARC) at Kasturba Hospital, Mahe,Manipal

Manipal Assisted Reproduction Centre (MARC), Kasturba Hospital, MAHE Manipal celebrated 33 years of services for Infertile couples and announced the birth of 10,000 babies at a function on April 24, 2022 at Dr. TMA Pai Auditorium, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.   

A lot of games were organized for the children which were highly appreciated by children and parents who came for “MARC DAY”.

A good number of children born through MARC procedure were there for the celebration.

The oldest IVF child is now 23 years.  

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KARNATAKA RECORDS : HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES : KIMS is the First Government Medical College in State to Perform Kidney Transplant

The Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) and Hospital have become the first government medical college in the State to successfully conduct a live kidney transplant and it is ready to take up cadaver transplants.

Addressing presspersons in Hubballi on Friday, KIMS director Ramalingappa Antaratani said through a coordinated effort by the departments of nephrology, urology, and anesthetics, the kidney of a 44-year-old woman had been successfully transplanted to her 22-year-old son.

Free of cost

He said the kidney transplant surgery which cost lakhs of rupees in private hospitals would be carried out free of cost under the ABARK scheme for BPL cardholders. “The Government pays 25% of the procedure cost for patients of APL (Above Poverty Line) under ABARK. And the surgery would cost around ₹1.5 lakh for them,” he said adding that with the successful completion of the first kidney transplant, the KIMS team planned to conduct more such transplants in the coming days.

To a query, Dr. Ramalingappa clarified that KIMS was now ready for a cadaveric kidney transplant.

However, the patients would have to follow the procedure of registering with the website ‘www.jeevaasarthakathe.karnataka.gov.in’ for a kidney transplant. But in cases where close family members come forward to donate kidneys, they could approach KIMS directly, he said.

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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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HEALTH CARE : Karnataka Appoints Robin Uthappa as Brand Ambassador for ‘Brain Health Initiative’ a Project to Improve Treatment of Neurological Disorders

Project to improve treatment of neurological disorders was launched January

Soon diagnosis and timely treatment of common neurological problems, such as epilepsy, headache, stroke, dementia and brain infections, can be done from the grassroots level of primary health centres, secondary-level district hospitals and NIMHANS at the tertiary level in the State.

Recognising the need to improve treatment and prevent neurological disorders in the community, the State Government in association with NIMHANS and Niti Ayog launched the Karnataka Brain Health Initiative (Ka-BHI) in January.

Project to improve treatment of neurological disorders was launched January

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