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In BRIEF
MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA :
Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani & Homoeopathy (ASU & H) drugs an Medicinal Plants. Further, under National
The Medical Council of India (MCI) is a statutory
Health Mission (NHM), support is provided to States/
body for establishing uniform and high standards
UTs for strengthening their healthcare systems
of medical education in India. The Council grants
including for mainstreaming of AYUSH based on
recognition
gives
the requirements posed by the States/UTs in their
accreditation to medical schools, grants registration
Programme Implementation Plans (PIPs). These
to medical practitioners, and monitors medical
supports also include support for engagement of
practice in India. The current President of MCI is Dr.
AYUSH doctors/paramedics in public health facilities.
of
medical
qualifications,
Jayshreeben Mehta.
VACCINATION IN INDIA : The NITI Aayog has recommended the replacement of Medical Council of India (MCI) with National
Indian Vaccine Regulatory System was assessed
Medical Commission (NMC). The decision has been
by WHO against Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT)
approved by most states.
comprising 9 functions for measuring the maturity of Indian Vaccine Regulatory System viz. National
GOOD HOSPITAL BASE FOR AYUSH MEDICAL
Regulatory
TREATMENT :
Authorization; Vigilance; Market Surveillance &
System;
Registration
&
Marketing
Control; Licensing Premises; Regulatory Inspections; A total of 3590 hospitals providing AYUSH medical
Laboratory Access & Testing; Clinical Trial Oversight;
treatment are functioning in the country. These
and NRA Lot Release. WHO has given highest possible
include 2820 hospitals of Ayurveda, 256 of Unani,
rating of 4 to Registration & Marketing Authorization;
273 Siddha hospitals, 7 of Yoga, 30 of Naturopathy
Vigilance; Laboratory Access & Testing; Clinical Trial
and 203 homoeopathy hospitals. The number of
Oversight; and NRA Lot Release. WHO has given a
AYUSH dispensaries in the country was 25,732.
rating of 3 in respect of the remaining four functions.
The number of AYUSH registered practitioners in the country as on are 7, 71,468. The Central
The assessment was carried out by a WHO team
Government, through Centrally Sponsored Scheme
comprising experts with decades of experience in
of National AYUSH Mission (NAM), extends support
different areas of Regulatory Systems in Regulatory
for promotion of AYUSH healthcare to the States/
Agencies, Laboratories & Institutes from WHO
UTs for co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary
Headquarters, WHO India office, USA, Italy, Germany,
Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres
Netherland, Indonesia, Thailand and Egypt. Indian
(CHCs) and District Hospitals (DHs) for development
National Regulatory Agency has been declared
of infrastructure, purchase of equipment & furniture
functional by WHO based on the most comprehensive
and supply of essential AYUSH medicines.
assessment ever carried out by WHO anywhere in the world with 63 indicators and 288 sub-indicators.
NAM also extends support for development of AYUSH educational institution, Quality control of
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HEALTH NEWS
NEWS & UPDATES
DEPRESSION MAY INCREASE THE DEATH
RISK OF CANCER C
an excessive anxiety and depression
that people who are frequently
cause higher death risks for cancer
depressed or anxious may run
patients? You might have heard that
higher death risks if suffering
some emotional aspects might aggravate the
from certain types of cancers.
mental stability of the cancer patient causing low self-confidence to combat cancer. But, can
More
emotional aspects like depression and anxiety
psychologically distressed adults
cause more death risks in cancer patients.
in England and Wales are like to
than
1,
60,000
succumb to the colon, prostate Our ever-changing society and competing
and pancreas cancer, according
life style has been putting more and more
to their medical records.
effect on our body and mind. Failure, loss, repentance, and fear etc. lead to worries,
According to writing in BMJ
anxieties and depressions. But according to
medical journal, Leukaemia and
recent report, medical science has proved
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Grilled, barbecued meats create concerns for Breast Cancer survivors
People love to enjoy their weekends dining and
According a report published in the Journal of the
drinking outside. Some extravagant go little
National Cancer Institute by the Humberto Parada,
forward to satisfy their taste buds by eating all non-
Jr., study co-author, from the University of North
vegetarian foods which are barbequed and grilled.
Carolina at Chapel Hill and associates the lifespan
Though these are lip-smacking but for a long run
of breast cancer survivor may be cut short by eating
it creates health hazards and other complication
high amounts of grilled, barbecued, or smoked meats.
breast cancer patients.
Cooked meats and breast cancer
From many studies, we know that excessive
Grilled, barbecued, smoked meats are cooked at
consumption of grilled, barbecued, and smoked
high temperatures which bring chemical reaction or
meats haves raised the risk of breast cancer. Now,
change the food properties. These create a numerous
researchers found that the by consuming the meat
health issues including cancers. According to the
prepared in such process increases the risk of all-
NCI, the methods applied for cooking can lead to
cause mortality for breast cancer survivor. Breast
the production of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
cancer is common cancer among women in the
(PAHs) and heterocyclic amines (HACs), which are
United States after skin cancer with 252,710 new
chemicals that increase cancer risk by triggering
cases will diagnosed and more than 40,000 women
changes to the DNA. When the intake of these kinds
will die from in the U.S.
food can cause cancer, these can create the risk of survival after the breast cancer.
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Fortunately, Parada and colleagues noted this and interviewed 1,508 women who had received a diagnosis of situ breast cancer in 1996 or 1997 so
influenza drugs Oseltamivir and Zanamavir must be made available widely at all pharmacies, by putting it in the Schedule H1 list.
that a study the impact of these kinds foods on the survivor. In the study, initially, consumption habits
These two drugs at present have been treated as
of the participants for four different types of grilled,
Schedule X drugs and available at select pharmacies.
barbecued, and smoked meats in each decade of life
Retain the four-year approval threshold for ‘new
are recorded. After five years, these women were
drugs’. If the definition of a new drug is extended
asked about their intake of these meats during the
to 10 years, then innovation will take a back seat
intervening 5 years.
and wanting the four-year period to be retained. Comment
All-cause mortality and cooked meats All-cause mortality increased with high intake of cooked meats After 17.6 years of follow-up, it was found that 597 of the women diagnosed for breast cancer died. Of these deaths, 237 (39.5 percent) were associated with breast cancer. It was found that women who take excessive amount of grilled, barbecued, or smoked meats are at a 23 % greater risk of all-cause mortality compare to compared those who reported a low intake these meats prior to a breast cancer diagnosis.
If these recommendations are approved it will help in ‘ease of doing business’ and give fillip to domestic pharmaceutical sector under Union Government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative at a time when the country is slipping in the competitiveness index. It will also give a boost to pharmaceutical industry and give comfort to our customers. Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB): It is the highest statutory decisionmaking body under the Union Health ministry on technical matters. It is constituted as per the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.
DTAB suggests one-time licensing for drugs The Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) recently recommended one-time licensing for manufacture and sales of drugs. If the recommendation is approved it will change the renewal of licences for each formulation which rests with state regulators and takes around three years. However, the new rule will have a condition that there be at least one annual inspection and in cases where risk is high. Recommendations: Separate rules for manufacturing, import, sale and distribution of cosmetics. It has suggested the European Union’s model. Making of Pink Medico
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GOOD FOOD VS BAD FOOD
MAIDA
DO YOU KNOW THE EFFECTS IT CAN CAUSE ON YOUR HEALTH ???
We enjoy eating food that is cooked in different ways. Indian cuisine has such variety of tasty food with lots of spices. Indian food is known for its spices. There are so many ingredients used in Indian kitchen. Here we are going to discuss about MAIDA. Maida or Refined Whear flour is one of the widely used ingredients in kitchen and mostly eated items in Hotels in the form of Kachori, Samosa, Pizza, Bakery products, Naans, Kulcha, Kerala Parota etc. Mostly of us use Maida to most of the foods as it gives a better texture and elasticity to the dish. But Is It worth eating any food which will give your food a better texture but at the same time it is harmful for your body??? Before proceeding further you have to know how Maida is manufactured - Maida is made from wheat.
Wheat seed has three parts: Bran - where most of the fibre is. Germ. It is the nutrient that sprouts in a
wheat plant.
Endosperm. It is the largest part of the grain. Maida is prepared from only the endosperm, it does not contain any nutrients and contains only carbohydrate or sugar. Then it is bleached with benzoyl peroxide to form a white powder. To get the elasticity and refineness, a chemical called Alloxan is added. It is this process, which makes Maida very soft. This is a dangerous chemical processing. ** Benzoyl peroxide is banned in China and the European Union still it is been used by other countries. Here we have to focus on the Chemical Alloxan: You will be shocked to know where Alloxan is used. Alloxan:
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To induce diabetes into rodents and other animal species, or the labotatory animals for testing medicines on them. Alloxan is a toxic glucose analogue, which selectively destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas (that is beta cells) when administered to rodents and many other animal species. This causes an insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (called "alloxan diabetes") in these animals, with characteristics similar to type 1 diabetes in humans. Alloxan is selectively toxic to insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells because it preferentially accumulates in beta cells through uptake via the GLUT2 glucose transporter. Alloxan, in the presence of intracellular thiols, generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) in a cyclic reaction with its reduction product, dialuric acid. The beta cell toxic action of alloxan is initiated by free radicals formed in this redox reaction. Alloxan is toxic to the liver and the kidneys in high doses. What will happen if you consume Maida on regular basis?
to a chemical reaction called glycation, a proinflammatory process that plays a role in a host of inflammatory diseases from cataracts to arthritis to heart disease. Maida may also lead to peptic ulcer and gall bladder disease. Maida consumption removes high amount of good quality protein in the process. Protein buffers the hydrocholric acid secreted by the stomach, and tends to protects the stomach from being ulcerated by the acid produced. IDEAL FOOD:
Maida is a slow poison. The important harmful effect of maida is that it increases the sugar levels as it has very high glycemic index. When blood sugar increases glucose builds up in the blood. When glucose increases in the blood, it gets into trouble
Replacing maida with multigrain flour - Whole wheat, millet, barley, would be the best option. Multi grain Dosa:
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Infertility - a cover story
Infertili
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Psychol and soc
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Irrespective of the health condition and other factors, the infertility can affect the both men and women. In many cases, both the partners can be found infertile which leads to childlessness.
Infertility in women:
count and abnormal sperm. In varicocele, the veins drain a man’s testicles by making incompetent or leaky valves. Blood vessels can be enlarged by the backflow of blood which raises the temperature of the testicles. This causes a low sperm count or less qualitative sperm.
This is common infertility which is most often the Psychological trauma: result ovulation problems. According to doctors, irregular or absent periods can "In many cases men have low indicate an issue quality sperm, sperm with low sperm
Being infertile or childless provides traumatic and worrying experience. This
with ovulation. count, low motility, or ability to swim and creates concern for the Also with presence self-respect, self-image, fertilize the eggs" of the issues like confidence and positive PCOS, primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), these attitude of the women who are childless or not able problems may occur. In many cases, functional to conceive. They are considered to be the most disorders of ovaries contribute to infertility in neglected and ominous in very orthodoxy societies. women. The sense of the incompleteness, continuation of
Other causes of infertility: • Uterine fibroids • Scar tissue in the pelvis from past surgeries • Scar tissue inside the uterus from instrumentation • Endometriosis • Early menopause • Blocked or scarred fallopian tubes Infertility in men Infertility of men often associated with the production, delivery, and quality of the sperm. In many cases men have low quality sperm, sperm with low sperm count, low motility, or ability to swim and fertilize the eggs. This affects the fertilization and which indirectly affects pregnancy. A varicocele can may times cause the low sperm
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future generation, absence of maternal love and affection for own kids, future support of themselves, and many other personal worries and anxieties make women worried.
The following are feeling that usually come to the infertile women: Incompleteness in womanhood and motherhood: • Lack of personal and maternal happiness • Lack of self-respect and confidence • Damaged family and social relationship • Damaged personal relationships
There are multiple consequences of infertility which may include but not limited to societal repercussions, personal suffering, and stressful conjugal relationship. Many cases, assisted reproductive technologies, for example IVF, can create hope for many couples where treatment is available. This, many times, has created a disregard for the emotional aspects that couples experience day to day life which include nut not limited to distress, loss of control, agony, stigmatization, and a disruption in the developmental proper of adulthood. Fortunately, advents of modern psychological tips and tricks have been creating positive impact on the infertility patients by providing stress management and coping-skills training.
• Sense of being neglected • Stressful and agonised social relationships
Stress of infertility: Distressing emotions are common in those who come
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to know that they cannot become parents Typically, people experience shock, grief, depression, worries and anxieties, and frustration which preoccupy their mind and thought process. They feel like losing selfconfidence, self-esteem, and control over destiny.
process where the women not being the biological mothers of the children, bear them in their wombs. Even if they are going for adoption and surrogacy which are difficult accept.
Social stigma: I. Endangered Relationship: Not only conjugal relationship is damaged but also relationship with friends and family members get spoiled. Friends and family members’ suggestions and guidance for treatment and alternative ways for happiness provide even more and more pain. The couple who suffer from infertility related issues can feel like not doing social interaction with families which have kids or pregnant women. II. Side effects of medication: In many cases, medication and drugs used to treat infertility provide some severe psychological pain. For example, the synthetic estrogen clomiphene citrate may cause anxiety, sleep interruptions, mood swings, and irritability in women. It will be difficult for the doctors to identify reasons of physical issues and mental agonies.
In typical Indian orthodox, superstitious and conservative families and social values, infertility in women is considered to be inauspicious. The illiterate and less educated families in Indian rural setups still blame the women for being not able to conceive and give birth to children without knowing the biological aspects of fertility. Fertility can affect both men and women. Moreover, even they blame the women with respect to the future heir of the family to continue the generation. In many cases without verifying the actual reason of infertility, they event go to the extent getting their sons marry second time to get heirs for the families. This holistically affects feminine emotion and womanhood, and create selfidentity crisis.
III. Financial Worries: Infertility is associated with lots financial worries as the couple has to think about managing expenses of the various treatments. Based on the partners suffering from infertility, and the associated treatment processes, the expense differs from place to place. IV. Other medical worries: There are also cases where the fertility treatments which are expensive, fail. This failure redoubles the grief, agony, and distress. The distress becomes more severe for couples who are living the in developing countries and/or who are living in the middle class families in the developing or developed countries. Going for one treatment to another treatment also costs a lot. It is also difficult to know when to stop the infertility treatments. It is very difficult go for
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In Indian conservative scenario, accepting this is traumatic for women and left them with stressful situations. This indirectly affects the personal images, self-confidence, and emotional courage. This
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Denial, Shock and Numbness It is difficult for you to accept the truth that the divine happiness of the being a mother and giving birth to child is in risk. Feelings of shock and numbness prevail in all your thought process at the news of infertility.
Anger Anger is common emotional result of the feeling of helplessness and distress. These feelings come from helplessness of controlling your present and future life with respect child and associated objectives. The feeling of anger even redoubles when you come to know the conclusion that after trying hard. This can control you and activities, behaviour and thoughts process. But you have to control your anger by implementing various anger controlling methods.
Low self-esteem Infertility and childlessness creates vacuum in the life of women in the reproductive ages. This has a huge impact on self-esteem, confidence, selfimage, attitude of the women who lacks to the selfreliance to face the society. They feel incomplete in personal level and this impacts their relationship with society, community and family. Disappointment, disgracefulness, and distress are common feeling of women suffering the social stigma of being infertile. Failure to complete womanhood, as giving birth to children are called as completeness in a woman, helps increase their disappointment leading to depression.
Therapies to treat psychological aspects Many of the infertile couple are finding ways to be happy and resolving the issues by their own and others seek help from their friends and family members or social groups of the infertile people who Pink Medico
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have been supporting each other. Those who cannot cope with this situation and get more emotional over the loss of getting pregnant and giving birth babies, psychological counselling or therapies are essential. This will help them cope up with situations and get back to normalcy. Counselling: Counselling are the most trusted and popular mechanisms for helping the infertile couples to cope up with the situation and make them enable to take proper decision. For them who observe prolonged changes in mood or sleep patterns, should seek a more comprehensive evaluation and advanced counselling process. Typically, counselling must be started before the start of the infertility treatment. Study says if the emotional feelings like depression, anxiety, and stress treated before infertility test, it increases the chances of giving birth to a child.
antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications which are useful when symptoms are moderate to severe. It is ideal for the doctors and the infertile couples to come to a mutual agreement of undergoing medication for controlling the emotional behaviour. In many cases, medication resulted in many side effects. Infertility is not social evil; it is just physical inability to support the women and men for reproduction. This is inability to help the procreation of life to support the divine intention of the parental happiness and regeneration of human lives. Though there are various reasons of the infertility, some of them are curable and some of them are preventable.
Relaxation techniques: Various relaxation techniques could help manage and control the considerable stress and anxieties caused by the issues related to the infertility and its associated treatment processes. Regular practice of various yoga poses, mindful meditation, deep breathing, and guided imagery promote stress management. These help providing more and more relaxation to the infertile couples. Psychotherapy: Psychotherapy works wonder for the emotionally barren couple those suffer from the psychological stresses. According to studies, interpersonal therapy that improves relationships or resolves conflicts, and cognitive behavioural therapy that identifies and tries to change unhealthy patterns of thought or behaviour, can help providing relief to the infertile couples. This helps combating the stress and emotional agonies. Irrespective types and techniques, psychotherapy helps come over all the psychological challenges the infertile couple face. Medications: To control psychological aspects of the various infertile couples, doctors suggest
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Rather than being emotionally stress and depressed on the failure of conception or childbirth, couples must take necessary steps to control the physical ailments and manage emotional aspects. This will definitely help to manage their unhappiness of not being parents. Instead, couples can undergo infertility treatment and psychotherapy to control the emotional aspects. Many couple have decided to be happy by adoption, surrogacy and other advanced medical technology that helps getting parental happiness with or being without the biological parents of the children.
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he divine intervention becomes inevitable when the human plight and suffering become uncontrollable. To put end to the suffering of human, the divinity of God comes in various ways: care love for people, service to humanity by controlling the diseases and sorrow and suffering. We consider some charitable as the divine representation that speaks about the noble cause of the deeds. They dedicate them is service of the human to save them from devastation. The role of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation is considered to be divine blessing for the service of humanity.
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verview: Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital & Research Centre is a joint venture of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation and Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham Charitable Trust of Sringeri. The hospital is located in the heart of Bangalore city, in the serene environment of the Sringeri Mutt in Shankarapuram, Bangalore. The land for the project was given with blessings by the Jagadguru Sri Sri Sri Bharathi Theertha Mahaswamiji, the Shankaracharya of Sringeri. Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation has undertaken this sacred task though generous donations from large hearted individual
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SRI SHANKARA
CANCER
HOSPITAL
& RESEARCH FOUNDATION donors, Government of Karnataka and Central Government organizations. Many corporate bodies and overseas donors have contributed in support of cancer patients.
• 30-bedded ICU with latest monitoring facilities • Head and Neck Oncology
• Hematologic Oncology • Pediatric Oncology Anesthesiology and Pain Relief Support Services • Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation & Speech Therapy
• Gynecologic Oncology
• Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology
• Urologic Oncology
• Psycho-oncology
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Rehabilitation and Prosthetics
• Endoscopic Surgery
• Library Sciences
• Neuro-Oncology
• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Orthopaedic Oncology
• Ambulance Services
• Medical Oncology
• Biorepository
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Objectives
stages through various interventional Standards.
Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham Charitable Trust, Sringeri and Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation have come together to establish a modern cancer hospital in the campus of Shankara Math, Shankarapuram, Basavanagudi, Bangalore.
• To provide medicine at highly subsidized costs. • To develop a centre for research
The main objectives of Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital & Research Centre are:
under eminent scientists and medical
• To provide state-of-the-art treatment
activities towards reducing the burden of
to all cancer patients at affordable cost irrespective of caste, creed, and socioeconomic status. • To offer free treatment to the poorest and set aside 10% of beds and services for this purpose.
professionals so as to drive the research cancer in the society, improving treatment standards and academically remaining in the cutting edge of science. • To make treatment affordable by reducing the basic cost of treatment and enabling the patients to obtain state-of-the-art contemporary treatment.
• To reduce the incidence of cancer in the rural areas and detect cancer in early
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• Laser Surgical Unit
FACILITIES
• Head and Neck Oncology The services are supported with ample consultation chambers for doctors and waiting space for the patients.
Diagnostic Services Department • CT scan
• Gynecologic Oncology • Urologic Oncology • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery • Endoscopic Surgery • Neuro-Oncology • Orthopaedic Oncology
• PET scan
Medical Oncology
• 1.5 tesla MRI • Digital Mammography • Ultrasonogram • Nuclear Medicine and hot laboratory • X-ray 500mA
• Hematologic Oncology • Pediatric Oncology
• Laboratory with auto-analyzers
Anesthesiology and Pain Relief Support Services
• Blood Bank
• Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation & Speech
• Histopathology / Cytopathology • Microbiology • Clinical Pathology • Immunohistochemistry • Molecular Pathology These services will be supported with ample consultation chambers and waiting space.
Radiation Oncology: • High-end Linear Accelerator - Varian Rapid Arc 16MeV Dual energy; IGRT / IMRT / SRS
Therapy • Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology • Psycho-oncology • Rehabilitation and Prosthetics • Library Sciences • Nutrition and Dietetics • Ambulance Services • Biorepository SSCHRC is looking to collaborate with leading international research agencies and institutions to carry out research in the field of cancer.
facilities • Simulator • Brachytherapy • Radiation Physics department • Treatment planning system • CT Simulator Clinical Oncology specializations Surgical Oncology: This will include • 8 well-equipped Operation Theatres
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We are launching the Sri Shankara National Centre for Cancer Prevention and Research on 30th December, 2017 to focus on community oncology to conduct longitudinal studies with intervention strategies in rural areas to bring down cancer incidence with lifestyle and dietary changes and regular follow-up for several years. Our aim is to play a very major role in creating awareness about Cancer so as to detect and treat
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cancer in precancerous condition or early stages through cancer outreach programs.
Academics Accreditation with the National Board of Examinations for the academic year 2016-17 towards a DNB in Surgical oncology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology and Pathology has been sought and compliance reports are under study by the NBE. This will get the best future medical talent. We also plan to start fellowship programs in specialized oncology areas in affiliation with universities within the country and abroad.
The hospital organizes and conducts regular CMEs (Continuing Medical programs) in all Oncological subspecialities.
the fourth batch will commence shortly. Training programs for caregivers and technologists has commenced.
Oncology nursing training program in collaboration with the National Skill development Corporation (NSDC) has trained three batches of nurses and
Article courtesy: Sri Sankara Cancer Hospital and Research Foundation, Bangalore
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plight. She has been a cancer survivor herself, she has gone through the pain and plight of life, but she dint loose her self-confidence. She has faced every challenge e happily. For her, life is adventure; everybody has to enjoy every bit of the life. The person who has a positive mind set like Manjula can face every challenge, obstacles and huddles in life and the journey from birth to death. May the challenges she face in her life make her so bold to take any and every situations easily and positively. She has been seen the numerous challenges in her, and she has proved herself. A retired banker, decided to dedicate her time educating and inspiring the cancer patient on handling the life easily and accepting the dire truth of the life. According to her, if you know the ultimate goal of your life if you’re suffering from cancer, then you just do not worry at all about that. Accepting the truth and enjoying the most of the life that gives you is the only way to combat the issues. Enjoy every moment of your time and life. She is a breast cancer survivor. When she came to sense of requirement to get it checked. Initially her husband was nervous. May be the fear of the ultimate disease, (breast cancer) was bothering him a lot. The treatment, severity and consequences of the disease, social reaction and the impact of this in family were hovering every time in his mind. However, her kids are supportive.
Optimistic: She is jolly, sporting and positive-spirited. The warmth and acceptance you find in her welcome is incredible
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International Healthcare Tourism Congress 2017 March 3-4, 2017. Vivanta by Taj, Yeshwanthpur, Bangaluru (India)
IHTC - International Heatlhcare Tourism Congress was held in Bangalore on 3-4th March 2017. IHTC had bought together innovation solution providers, doctors, medical tourism facilitators, healthcare stalwarts to discuss on acute technological issues and business challenges faced in the Healthcare Tourism Sector in India. By creating a platform and by bringing in all teh stakeholeders of the Healthcare Tourism Sector under one roof, Ms.Anita Nirnajan, Managing Director of CIM Global has stepped forward to extend its support and encourage the industry. The conference was inaugated by Shri Ramesh Kumar, Honorouble Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of Karnatka, Dr.Shalini Rajneesh, IAS, Principal Secretary to Government - Health and Family Welfare Department, Dr.Hema Divakar, a, opinion leader who strongly believes that "Women's Health is Nation's Wealth" is leading the initiative as an expert in women's healthcare, Dr.Maria Todd of Mercury Healthcare International, who has spent 34 years in health and wellness tourism business. The topics of the congress are well sorted as the industry needs. Few of the topics that were discussed are as follows: Patient Care and Safety Telemedicine Oncology Organ Transplantation Latest Technology in treating Neurological disability Dentistry, Cosmetology, Gynaecology.
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RNI Ref No: MAG(1)/NPT/258/2016-2017