Bhubaneswar: Doctors at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital have counseled parents to keep watch over the safety of their children while they are at home or outside. “Children are susceptible to accidents, whether at home or on the road or at school. Their safety should be uppermost in the minds of their parents…
Bhubaneswar: Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medical sciences of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here, has been ranked third in the eastern region in the Times All India Multispeciality Hospitals Ranking Survey published on Friday. IMS and SUM Hospital, which was ranked as the top multispeciality hospital in…
Bhubaneswar: The intricacies of safely transporting critically ill patients were discussed at a workshop organised at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here on Wednesday, with experts emphasising the need for taking recourse to the latest available technology. Doctors explained how transport ventilators were being used by the hospital while underscoring the need…
Bhubaneswar: With Delhi facing an acute environmental emergency and a possible lockdown, the focus has shifted to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which has been on the rise mainly due to air pollution, experts said here on Wednesday. Clean air is the crying need almost everywhere as increasing number of COPD patients struggled to breathe…
Bhubaneswar: A two-day training programme for gastroenterologists from different states on the latest SPYGLASS-DS technology ended at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here on Sunday. This latest SPYGLASS-DS technology has opened up new avenues to diagnose and detect diseases involving the bile duct, gall bladder, liver and pancreas, Prof. Manoj Kumar Sahu,…
Bhubaneswar: Experts have observed that Covid-19 had infected more number of people with diabetes than compared to other people. “The Covid virus easily infected persons with diabetes and these patients subsequently became critical,” Prof. Abhay Kumar Sahu, head of the department of Endocrinology at Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, said. He described both…
Bhubaneswar: The doctors at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital have successfully saved a seven-year-old boy who had suffered extensive burn injuries from crackers more than a month ago. When the boy was wheeled into the hospital emergency around midnight, about one-third of his body had been burnt with his eyes, nose, mouth,…
Bhubaneswar: Paediatric surgeons at the SUM Covid Hospital here conducted an emergency surgery on a Covid-19 afflicted 11-year-old girl. The girl, who complained of severe pain in the abdomen, was taken to a hospital where she tested positive for Covid-19 and she was promptly shifted to SUM Covid Hospital on October 27 where she was…
Bhubaneswar: Swift intervention by doctors at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here helped reviving a four-day-old baby girl suffering from a cardiac disease known as Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries (D-TGA). The baby, weighing 2.3 kg, was received in the hospital emergency with oxygen saturation of less than 50 per cent and…
Bhubaneswar: Arthritis is the inflammation of joints and greatly diminishes normal physical activity which can affect people of any age, experts said at an awareness program organised at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital to mark the World Arthritis Day on Tuesday. There are more than 100 types of arthritis and they are…
