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MU welcomes Ramdevism

16 April, 2011 04:22:00 Anshul Kumar

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Baba Ramdev, KMC Greens|| Photo Courtesy: Nyurka Fernandes

Manipal: Manipal University (MU), with the support of the Patanjali Yoga Peeth, Hariand Swabhiman Trust, Udupi organised an interactive session with yoga guru, Rishi H H Baba Ramdev on 16 April at KMC Greens. The meeting was held to discuss the advantages of yoga.

Baba Ramdev discussed the advantages of practising yoga, how it plays an important role in curing many diseases and helps a person maintain his or her health. He also discussed how some diseases can be cured by yoga, instead of heavy medication.  He spoke about corruption in India and discussed the reasons which lead to corruption and the need for people to unite to reduce it.

“The way Yoga Guru Ramdevji interacted was very lively and filled with enthusiasm,” said Prof K Ramnarayan, Vice-Chancellor, MU.

“It is a very inspiring abhiyaan, where a yoga guru is spreading and promoting yoga amongst all age groups from youth to senior citizens,” said Shyam Bhat radio co-ordinator from Manipal Institute of Communication, and member of the audience.

Is Economic Growth the "TRUE Development"?

Development, the word itself describes a meaning or in simpler words development can be termed as "proliferation" in a country  or "building up" for a nation. As far as a country is concerned , development does mean a lot, Development can be linked to economic growth, economic growth indicates an economy of a country or it's GDP. Having an economy of $3.3 Trillion after humangous economies of $14.3 Trillion and $8 Trillion of The United States and China respectively does not make India a developed or a developing country , not alone economy but there are other factors as well which contribute to Development. The reason why India comes under LEDC(Less Economically Developed Country) and not an MEDC is because there are many other sectors which still should be considered when it comes to development of a country. Sectors like National Security, Healthcare and one of the most important Education also need to be considered when it comes to true development. Education sectors in MEDC'S like US, UK, CHINA, JAPAN have recorded, established and maintained an education literacy rate of 99% as compared to India's literacy rate of just 66%, even today when the higher authorities(our own Government) sometimes talk about development in rural areas of India promising "n" number of facilities in the face of development none of them is actually implemented and as a matter of fact, when people show reluctancy regarding everything with what means can India be even termed as a "Developing Nation" forget about being called a "Developed Nation" !
          Healthcare Industry also stresses a lot of importance when it comes to development of India. Are adequate medical facilities being provided and are safety measures being taken to ensure lives of people? For example Kasturba Medical College Manipal had conducted this Mock Drill for Disaster Management just to see and check their preparedness for any hazard if in case any disaster takes place, frankly speaking after covering the Mock Drill for a STUDENT NEWS WEBSITE facilities were quite impressive, but the ratio of doctors and patients was found to be quite inadequate, there were some 3 interns and 2 qualified doctors including some PG students which was supposedly enough for around 15-16 patients. What if someday an actual disaster happens will a mere group of 5 doctors be able to attend 15 patients what if simultaneously every patient is found to be in a very critical condition and even during the mock drill one major fault was student reporters directly barged into the Emergency Triage area which is supposedly called as an attending room for patients in real world a reporter during any REAL disaster is not even allowed to barge in the hospital. This was the case with KMC but what about other good hospitals all around the country, many a times we see patients and victims dying either in the hospital or due to negligience shown towards their treatment and some die unattended !!! Giving some weird reason that the hospital was not ready with the ambulance or sometimes there was shortage of ambulance this becomes the reason amongst other which affect the Healthcare Industry and in turn questions the Country's attention towards Healthcare Industry because after all it is ultimately the "Government of India" which is running our country and is responsible for everything including social, economical growth along with all the citizens of India.
To conclude Government still has a lot to cover in our country and a huge amount of garbage that needs to be cleaned as soon as possible which can nearly take another 15-20 years...

KMC conducts Disaster Management Mock Drill

18 January, 2011 07:10:00Anshul Hardikar

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Ambulance used during drill || Photo Courtesy: Tasneem Jivi

Manipal: Kasturba Medical College (KMC) organised a Disaster Management Mock Drill on Jan 16th. The drill was initiated by NABH (National Accreditation for Board of Hospitals and Healthcare) and every hospital undertakes it once a year, although KMC holds it twice a year. The purpose behind the mock drill was to check the preparedness of KMC as a hospital in the event of any disaster.

The Mock Drill started at 9 a.m. at S Chandrashekhar Hostel with all the 30 volunteers from MMMC as patients when an ambulance started shifting them to KMC for immediate assistance. Upon reaching KMC they were immediately shifted to the Emergency Triage (TR) for treatment. The ER had four senior doctors, four PG medical students and two interns for assistance. Further, for the treatment of patients, KMC had divided its doctors into 10 different teams (A to H).

“There were 29 casualities reported out of which three were critical and 16 patients were serious. However, there is a requirement for more telephone lines as the telephone lines were jammed,” said Pulgaonkar, Senior Medical Superitendent of KMC. When asked about the ambulance backup he said, “One driver and one highly qualified doctor who is usually a trauma specialist are there in the ambulance and KMC also has its own Disaster Management Cell in the hospital itself.”

KMC is the only hospital in Manipal and Udupi amongst all the government and private hospitals which conducts this mock drill twice a year to check its preparedness for unforseen and unfortunate instances.

Sub-edited by: Aditya Ramachandran

MIT road safety week..

MIT takes up road safety initiative

16 January, 2011 05:50:00 Anshul Hardikar

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The success of the implementation of this initiative remains to be seen || Photo Courtesy: Rinish R

Manipal: Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) started an initiative called the ‘MIT Road Safety Week’, as part of which, it is mandatory for all two-wheeler riders entering the MIT campus to wear a helmet.

It is applicable also to the teaching and non-teaching staff of MIT. Entry of vehicles of those who don’t comply is barred. 

“A rule has strictly been implemented that from January no student will be allowed to own a two-wheeler or drive a two-wheeler in the campus and even if the student does, he/she has strictly been advised to wear a helmet for their own safety,” said Radhakrishna Aithal, joint director, MIT.

Free helmets have been distributed to the entire MIT non-teaching staff as part of this initiative, hoping to create awareness.

This initiative took off in December last year, taking into account the steady number of road accidents recorded in and around Manipal. Manipal University (MU) has forwarded this new rule to all the associate institutions.

Renowned Nephrologists present seminar on rare kidney disorder
Manipal: Department of Pathology and Nephrology of KMC and MMMC Manipal
organized a seminar titled “Nephrology and Nephropathology International
Update 2010 Workshop” on Nephrology in Hotel Valley View on 30th-31st
October 2010. Nephrologists Dr.Sanjeev Sethi and Dr. Peter.C.Harris from Mayo
Clinic, Rochester(USA) were the chief guests and had a brief discussion on the
Nephrology disorder named “MPGN(Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis)”.
“When kidney is bombarded with deposits of immune complex or
proliferation of immune complexes takes place in kidney, MPGN strikes body”,
said Dr. Sanjeev Sethi about the disorder MPGN. Dr.Sanjeev Sethi discussed
quite a few cases about nephrology patients who are suffering from hematuria,
hypertension and diabetes due to this disorder.
Nephrology is basically the study of disorders affecting the kidney, caused
by development of immune complex in kidney. It majorly affects people in the
age group 50-60 years.
“The seminar is quiet interesting and it is not bad”, said Dr. Shephali
Sharma from audience. Many of the doctors attending the seminar agreed it has
always been a pleasure listening to Dr. Sethi.
“This is a unique workshop where pathologists and clinicians have met
under the same roof and discussed about various topics”, said Miss. Lakshmi
Rao, organizer of the event.
Dr. Peter.C.Harris will be presenting his seminar and will be discussing cases
tomorrow at Chaitya Hall,Valley View.

Rare Disease

Today in a country with an average population of 1.15 Billion, which we call as "INDIA" has been constantly in an influence of change and has been moving rather growing rapidly in all aspects, be it economy,infrastructure,technology,development,education and also awareness which has slowly developed into every individual's mind but yet there are many aspects which still remains untouched, unchanged and amongst this "untouched matter" there lies a matter which hardly comes into someone's mind is the "HEALTH CONCERN" of a developing and overgrowing country like India...Health Concern in our country is that topic which should be concerned the most amongst all other, the reason why health concern should be given importance in our country is because it has become the biggest threat to our country just after poverty. Rare Health Diseases which is the burning issue in our country which prevails in those 40% of our country's total population who are actually below poverty line, the people who are below poverty line are affected from every angle, be it struggle to get a day's food, to get wages, to run their families the most important problem which these people suffer is lack of awareness. Regarding health concerns there are activites which our government does every year and almost every month, they try to create awareness by making advertisements by roping in big personalities and dignitaries from around the country, but still there are many families which remain ignorant about all this.
            Rare Diseases, the word itself explains it's meaning the disease which are very rare and such are the diseases which has just started affecting people in India, especially in remote areas of karnataka,maharashtra and bihar..The only rare disease whose cases have now started coming up in recent months is :  KAWASAKI
As strange the name looks same is disease....
KAWASAKI :
                      Kawasaki Disease, a disease which is one of the rare disease which is found in India is an Isochemic Heart Disease, which usually strikes infants from age group of new born to 4 years, this disease is the most common cause of heart disease in children which in one of the few million cases can be detected provided if there are facilities available which can actually cure this disease at a very early stage...this disease is also a major reason for coronary thrombosis(blood clots) and coronary artery aneurysms which can ultimately lead to chronic heart ailment. The most strange part of the disease is that it's cause is unknown, even doctors are not sure as to what can be the major reason for the disease. Few symptoms of the disease are : 1> Abrupt onset of Fever
       2> Vomiting
       3> Nausea
       4> Reddened Lips and oral mucosa
       5> Arthritis
       6> Gall Bladder Diseases
Illness that young children get, in more medical terms acute self-limited immune-mediated form of vasculitis. Charecterized by a sudden onset of fever and rashes. Most common form of rashes is non specific diffuse , eruption if flattened papules. Rashes cover entire body including trunk and extremities. Reddened "strawberry" tongue occurs.The worst part of the disease is that there is no diagnosis available for the disease and yet there has been no cure available for the disease. Surprisingly there has been a singlecase in Karnataka of kawasaki disease which are:

1> 1st May 2010 in Bangalore : A 4yr. old child was diagnosed with kawasaki disease and doctors were clueless as this was the only case in karnataka and amongst six rare cases in India! Shown above is "reddened strawberry" tongue of kawasaki patient along with it is an infants body full of non-specific diffuse rashes..

• This disease has only six rare cases in our country and the major part is that still doctors have not been able to find a proper cure for the disease and this disease is gradually spreading in remote places where there is no awareness regarding the disease. The disease in later stage if left unattended develops into a major incurable chronic heart disease.Kawasaki Disease is the major health problem which is affecting our children and also has become the major threat for our society