Health
Bhubaneswar: A ‘Continuing Medical Education’ programme on the subject ‘Diagnostic Approach to Salivary Gland Tumours’ was held at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here on Saturday, which attracted around 200 participants. The programme, organised by the Pathology department of the hospital, was inaugurated by Prof. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, Vice-Chancellor of SOA. It…
Bhubaneswar: Talk shows on the importance of maintaining a clean mouth and an academic lecture marked the Oral Hygiene Day observed by the Department of Periodontics at the Institute of Dental Sciences, faculty of dental sciences of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here on Monday. Prof. (Dr.) Rashmita Nayak and Prof. (Dr.) Anurag Satpathy participated in…
Bhubaneswar: A 30-year-old woman suffering from a rare blood disorder has been successfully treated at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital recently. The woman, hailing from Jajpur, was admitted to the hospital here in the last week of May for anemia and bleeding, which required repeated blood and platelet transfusions spread over one…
Bhubaneswar: Doctors at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) have saved life of a newborn baby weighing only 750 grams. The baby girl was delivered through caesarean section at 26 weeks of gestation in the hospital and suffered from severe respiratory distress after birth requiring non-invasive respiratory support, Dr. Pradip Kumar Dey, head of the Paediatrics department…
Bhubaneswar: SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM), the one-stop, next generation multispecialty quaternary care hospital here, has been conferred with the ‘Best Multi-Specialty Hospital’ award by the Indian Medical Association—Junior Doctors’ Network Odisha. The award was presented at the Youth Health Icon Winner 2022, an event held at the ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre here on Sunday. Prof….
Bhubaneswar: Doctors should serve the society with passion which will go a long way in avoiding unsavoury incidents of attacks on medical professionals, Prof. (Dr.) Sanghamitra Mishra, Dean of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, said on Monday. “Doctors have a special place in society and such happenings should not occur and will not…
Bhubaneswar: A Japanese national, who contracted Covid while on a visit to India, was discharged from SUM Covid Hospital here on Tuesday after recovering from the virus. P. Takahara Kenji, who was in India to attend a programme, fell sick and was admitted to the hospital after showing symptoms of Covid. He complained of fever…
Bhubaneswar: The service rendered by the SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) and SUM Covid Hospital after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has been remarkable and incomparable, Ashok Chandra Panda, Odisha’s minister for Science and Technology, Public Enterprises, Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability, said on Saturday. “SUM Ultimate Medicare and SUM Covid Hospital…
Bhubaneswar: Faculty members and students of the Institute of Dental Sciences (IDS), SOA’s faculty of Dental Sciences, in collaboration with Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police, conducted an oral cancer awareness campaign at 15 traffic posts of Bhubaneswar city on May 31 coinciding with the World No Tobacco Day. Teams deployed at various traffic junctions distributed leaflets highlighting…
Bhubaneswar: Doctors at the SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM), have successfully treated a nine-year-old girl suffering from a rare condition known as Pheochromocytoma, a type of neuroendocrine tumour which grows in the adrenal glands. Shreeya Themria, who came to the hospital complaining of breathlessness and sweating, was found to have hypertensive crisis with heart disease. She…
