Health
Bhubaneswar: Prof. (Dr.) Sanghamitra Mishra, Professor and Head of department of Critical Care Medicine, has been appointed as the new Dean of the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University here. Prof. (Dr.) Mishra, who will join the new post on Wednesday, replaces Prof….
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medical sciences of SOA, have successfully removed a 3 kg tumour from the chest of a 23-year-old woman which had compressed her left lung and pushed the heart and windpipe to the right of the chest cavity. After visiting few hospitals where…
Bhubaneswar: A two-day workshop on dental photography which was conducted at the Institute of Dental Sciences (IDS), faculty of dental sciences of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), for faculty members and post-graduate students concluded on Friday. The workshop was organised by SOALENS Photography Club of IDS in which Dr. Mayur Davda, acclaimed dental photographer from Mumbai,…
Bhubaneswar: The need to instill hope in the minds of people suffering from schizophrenia was stressed at a programme organised to observe World Schizophrenia Day at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital on Tuesday. “There is a need to instill hope in the minds of the patient and the caregiver so that they…
Bhubaneswar: More women have been entering the field of dentistry in recent years but most practitioners of dental science continued to be men, Prof. Sabita Acharya, vice-chancellor of Utkal University here said on Saturday. Speaking at the 7th annual conference of the Women’s Dental Council, a wing of the Odisha state unit of Indian Dental…
Bhubaneswar: For the first time in Odisha, Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of SOA here, has successfully performed autologous stem cell transplantation on a lymphoma patient. The challenging procedure, often referred to as bone marrow transplantation (BMT), was done recently on a 33-year-old patient suffering from lymphoma, a type of…
Bhubaneswar: Rise in awareness level and regular screening is the way forward to battle cancer in women, Dr. Chira Ranjan Khadanga, radiation oncologist at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) said. “Areas of key concern are the incidence of cervical cancer and increasing occurrence of breast cancer in women who require regular screening and awareness about the…
Bhubaneswar: Dr. Banambar Ray, Head of the department of Critical Care at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM), has been honoured with the Distinguished Mentor Award at the Ganga Anaesthesia Refresher Course (GARC) held on May 5. Dr. Ray received the award, instituted for the first time, at a special programme organised at Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore….
Bhubaneswar: A Medical Education Department, as required under the National Medical Commission rules, was inaugurated at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, SOA’s faculty of medical sciences, here on Monday. The department was inaugurated by SOA’s pro-vice chancellor and dean of the institute Prof. Gangadhar Sahoo in the presence of the medical superintendent…
Bhubaneswar: A week-long awareness programme on immunisation was conducted by the department of paediatrics at the IMS and SUM Hospital here from April 24 to 30 to educate parents, expectant mothers and public in general about the importance of vaccination. A seminar on the subject was held on April 29 which was inaugurated by Prof….
