Health
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s minister for health and family welfare, Niranjan Pujari on Tuesday underlined the importance of organ donation saying there is a greater need to raise awareness in this regard. The SUM Ultimate Medicare, a relatively new hospital in the capital city, had already caught the attention of the public because of its service and…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons of SUM Ultimate Medicare here have successfully removed a cricket ball size skull base tumour from a 15-year-old boy through minimal invasive surgery. Sudam Kishku, who belongs to Mayurbhanj district, had experienced gradual facial swelling close to his left eye. A thorough examination of the boy and relevant radiological investigations revealed the existence…
Bhubaneswar: The staff members of SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) to spread awareness about organ donation enacted ‘Life after Death’- a street corner play on Saturday here as part of Indian Organ Donation Day which was observed on Thursday. Soumendra Priyadarshi, commissioner of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Police Commissionerate, who inaugurated the play, hailed the efforts being made by…
Bhubaneswar: A state-of-the-art neuromodulation lab was inaugurated at the Department of Psychiatry of the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here on Wednesday. The Lab comprises of highly advanced facilities like Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (RTMS) and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS), Prof (Dr) Surjeet Sahoo, Professor and Head of the Department, said. This…
Bhubaneswar: Prof (Dr) Suryaprakash Chowdhury, Professor in Neurology department of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here, has been honoured with the fellowship of the World Headache Society at its international conference held at Bengaluru last month. Around 500 neurologists from across the world attended the three-day conference held from June 16 to 18…
Bhubaneswar: In a first in Odisha’s medical history, multiple organs were retrieved from a brain dead patient at the SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) here on Saturday. The organs were rushed to three different cities for transplantation providing a new lease of life to four critical patients. In an exceptional achievement, multiple organs including two kidneys,…
Bhubaneswar: Researchers at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here have developed simple, economical and innovative pharmaceutical formulations to treat various chronic medical conditions for which the Deemed to be University has signed technology licensing agreement with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) of the Ministry of Science and Technology recently for societal benefits. The formulations developed…
Bhubaneswar: With the emergence of Transfusion Medicine as a separate clinical and scientific branch in medical science, India has witnessed a significant progress in this domain in the last decade, an expert said on Friday. More and more blood centres, which are developing gradually across the country, are adopting new technology like automation, computerization and…
Bhubaneswar: Around one lakh are diagnosed with blood cancer in India every year, but can be defeated with proper treatment and the patient’s will to fight, medical experts said recently. “There is a need to dispel the notion that it is difficult to escape death if a person was afflicted with cancer,” Dr Hara Prasad…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM) here have successfully conducted a challenging surgery on a 73-year-old woman suffering from a rare condition after she was turned away by other healthcare facilities who described the case as inoperable. Ambika Patra, with a 15-year-old history of a swelling on her neck and suffering from sudden onset…
