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HP deploys first Virtual Healthcare Centre for Pallium India, in Kerala

Trivandrum: In a first of its kind initiative in India, Hewlett Packard India has deployed a mobile and static Virtual Palliative Care solution for the Thiruvananthapuram based charitable trust, Pallium India. The technology platform that will digitally connect doctors and terminally ill patients has been developed by HP India Enterprises Services Healthcare vertical in collaboration with HP Labs.

The deployment of the Palliative Healthcare solution was inaugurated by Smt. Mariamma Oommen in the presence of Marshal Correia, VP - Enterprise Services, HP India; Girish Kumar, Head - Healthcare & Life Sciences, HP India and Dr. M R Rajagopal, Director, Pallium India, at a function held here today.

Giving details, Girish said, “This solution connects the patients and the medical faculty using ICT. Two studios have been set up, one at the Pallium India headquarters at Pattom and another at Karunya Vishranthi Bhavan at Kattela, a destitute home run by the Malankara Orthodox Church in Trivandrum. The remote location is equipped with basic digital healthcare and diagnostic equipments like digital stethoscopes and digital ECGs to facilitate patient testing. In effect, the solution delivers care where the patient lives by the doctors of Pallium India, enabling better treatment.”

A similar set-up is also deployed in an AC bus as a mobile centre. The vehicle can be used as a mobile clinic to give remote consultation by doctors through video conferencing and digital diagnosis in far flung and rural areas. The bus can also be used for training activities of rural medicos. “Although this is an imperfect substitute for face-to-face consultation, this is a better solution and substitute for some care where there is no care”, Girish added.

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Source: Kerala Kaumudi

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Source: Kerala Kaumudi

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Trivandrum Dental College to get centre for craniofacial anomalies

Minister for Health V.S. Sivakumar said here on Friday that the State government proposed to set up Kerala’s first Craniofacial Anomalies Centre at the Government Dental College, Thiruvananthapuram.

He was speaking after inaugurating a Continuing Dental Education programme on craniofacial anomalies at the Dental College.

The services of doctors from 17 specialisations would be made available at the centre. The government has sanctioned Rs.7 crore for an additional block and an operation theatre at the college. The Public Works Department would soon begin construction works of the same, he said.

The scheme to set up dental colleges at the medical colleges in Thrissur and Alappuzha is progressing apace, he said adding that Rs.2.5 crore had been sanctioned for each college.

The government also proposed to strengthen cancer detection infrastructure in the pathology wings of dental colleges.

Advanced cancer care that is now available only at the Regional Cancer Centre and at the Malabar Cancer Centre would be extended to medical colleges, general hospitals and district hospitals, in a phased manner. The government had earmarked Rs.6 crore each for the medical colleges in Kottayam and Alappuzha for setting up tertiary cancer care centres, he added.
Source:The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle4037292.ece

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First Craniofacial Anomalies Centre in Kerala soon

Steps will be taken to start the first Craniofacial Anomalies Centre in the state at the Government Dental College here, said Health Minister V S Sivakumar here on Friday.

Inaugurating the CDE on Craniofacial Anomalies, Sivakumar said that an amount of Rs 7 crore had been allotted for an additional block and an operation theatre at the Government Dental College here.

The construction of the new block will be started by the Public Works Department soon.

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CHRIST MEDICITY, TRIVANDRUM
Panavoor, Nedumangad.

Phase I Projects
(1) Chaavara Cancer Research Institute
(2) Multispecialty General Hospital
(3)Imaging Unit with (a) MRI Scan, (b) 128 Slice CT Scan (c) Nuclear Medicine Unit and (d) PET Scan
(4) 20 Satellite units with screening and follow up facilities
(5)Chaavara Institute of Medical Sciences
(6)Nursing College
(7) Higher secondary school

Phase II Projects

(1) St. Alphonsa Institute Of Cardiology
(2) St.Mary’s Institute of Kidney and Genitourinary Disorders
(3) Medical College

Phase III Projects
(1) Chaavara Institute of Biomedical Technology
(2) Institute for Emergency Medicine, Trauma Care and Orthopaedics
(3) Institute for Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Medicine
(4) Institute for Gastroenterology
(5) Dental College
(6) Pharmacy College
(7) Physiotherapy College

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Palliative care project to reach hundreds

A year after it was kicked off, the ‘Arogyakeralam’ Palliative Care Project is set to reach hundreds of needy patients in the city very soon. The project, that caters to the terminally ill, bedridden patients with the promise of financial and emotional support, was launched by the government last year.

The identification of patients, concluded last month, has put the figures in the capital city at 500 and medical treatment for some has already begun.

Envisaged under a first-of-its-kind palliative care policy, the state government had conceived the project wherein the bedridden patients are treated and consoled through a network of home care services neatly blending the support of community, local self-governments and health care centres.

The project implemented by the Institute of Palliative Medicine has the support of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

Though only a month old with the patients, the palliative care volunteers have sensed that it is more than just physical help that they need.

‘’Around 500 patients have been identified now and we have already started giving them the medical aid. We have come to realise that the patients are not only looking for physical help but are in need of emotional and financial support too. This is only a beginning and with time we hope to fulfil the needs of the patients who we take under our wings,’’ said Vijayakumaran, a social worker and one of the main coordinators of the programme.

Shabhana Sheikh and Sreekumar, two other coordinators who have been promoting the idea among people and inspiring many to turn volunteers under the programme, also air the same view. They really hope more volunteers would add to the reach of the programme.

Presently, the patients identified under the project can seek medical aid at four hospitals - Fort, Poonthura, Kadakampally and Nemom.

Eighty Corporation wards have been divided into four sections and the patients in respective wards are to utilise the service of the respective hospitals. A fifth primary centre at Vattiyoorkavu would soon be ready with the medical aid, covering the rest of the 20 wards, volunteers said.

The transportation facilities for the patients to the hospital will be arranged by the City Corporation if necessary.

ASHA workers, anganwadi teachers and residents’ associations are also putting in their bit to take the programme to more needy patients.

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Thiruvananthapuram MCH to be referral institution from January

The Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, will function as a purely referral institution offering tertiary-level patient care from January 1.
Other Government Medical Colleges across the State will also be made referral institutions in phases, once the system is piloted and perfected at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital.
Though there have been several Government Orders since 1975, announcing the implementation of the referral system in the health sector, these could never be effected at the practical level as there were no proper guidelines for its implementation.
The referral system is being piloted on the basis of a set of guidelines and protocols developed by the Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Centre (CERTC) at the Thiruvananthapuram MCH, which had been engaged by the government last year for the purpose.
In the initial phase, the referral system will be effected only in four specialties — General Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics — which are some of the busiest departments at any medical college.
Minister for Health V.S. Sivakumar, who addressed a sensitisation workshop for medical officers in Health Services as well as senior department heads from the MCH on referral system protocols here on Thursday, said the government was in the process of improving the staff strength and infrastructure facilities at the primary and secondary level of healthcare institutions in order to equip these to handle the referrals .
He said the basic infrastructure in most government hospitals — including the provision of diagnostic services such as X-ray or ECG — at the secondary level of institutions would have to be improved. The gaps in facilities and services at five taluk hospitals would have to be essentially filled to initiate the referral system.
Apart from doctors, staff nurses and other categories of hospital employees will also undergo training in the coming days.
The CERTC prepared the first draft of referral system guidelines after a series of discussions with doctors from the medical college and senior Health Services officials. These were vetted by a group of senior health professionals outside the health system.
The referral guidelines clearly tell doctors that patients may be referred to a higher-level hospital only with definite and convincing indications and the official procedures to be followed. The provisional diagnosis by the first treating doctor will have to be clearly noted and necessary information/counselling should be given to the patient who is being referred.

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Lol, it took a hospital to figure out what the Corporation, TRIDA and the State Government have not been able to do for the last ten years or so!

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SUT Medical College,Vattappara

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Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS),Thiruvananthapuram,have developed a camera for early detection of cancer

Scientists at the biophotonics laboratory of the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS),Thiruvananthapuram,have developed a camera that has made early detection of cancer easier and cost-effective.
The camera,which works on diffuse reflectance imaging system (DRIS),gives distinct images of cells with poor blood flow discriminating them from nearby healthy ones.
The DRIS technology makes it possible to photograph and highlight less oxygenated haemoglobin cells.`This camera is highly sensitive and can capture premalignant and malignant cells in white light based on the blood flow pattern in them, said Dr N Subash,senior scientist and head of CESS department of atmospheric sciences.
The initial results of its clinical trials are very encouraging.The camera could successfully detect oral cavity cancer in almost 98% of the patients during clinical studies done at the Government Dental College and Regional Cancer Centre,Thiruvananthapuram,in different phases.
We screened 96 patients affected with buccal cavity cancer and 34 healthy volunteers in the first phase of trials at the Government Dental College.Results showed 98% accuracy in comparison with the results of biopsy done on the same patients, said Subash.
Oral cancer is the third most common disease and constitutes 16.5% of all cancers with relatively high incidence rates of 21.5 and 12.8 per 100,000 men and women.
The scientists restricted the use of camera to detection of oral cancer during trials `` as it is easier and patients did not feel uncomfortable to assist the campaign.
Currently we are finalising results of another round of trials done at RCC.Performance of the camera and the detection rate have been encouraging.We will be modifying the camera based on the results and feedback.We hope that the camera will be soon ready for use by oncologists, said Subash.
The technology could be used for early cancer detection in organs which have squamous epithelial cells including the gastro-intestinal tract,stomach,colon etc.The camera can be used for endoscopy also,he said.
As clinical diagnosis based on DR imaging is possible in near real-time,there is practically no waiting period.It could be a suitable tool for guided biopsy and for mass screening to detect pre-oral cancers,CESS scientists said.
Source : TOI mobile
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Source : Mathrubhoomi
http://www.mathrubhumi.com/health/he...ss-321603.html

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UK keen to partner India in primary healthcare


United Kingdom is looking at opportunities to partner with Indian entities in the primary care sector by scaling up the standards of healthcare delivery. As a pilot project, UK government is in talks with the government of Kerala for upgrading the services of three government primary health care centres in Thiruvananthapuram district.

In India, the healthcare sector, especially in the hands of the private sector, has been growing mainly in the tertiary care segment, while the primary care that lies in the bottom of the pyramid has almost been neglected.

“On the other hand UK has a robust primary care sector with large networks of general practitioners. The expertise of the country in healthcare delivery, research and education can be utlised to set up a good primary care system in India and this will ease the burden on the tertiary care segment,” said Mike Nithavrianakis, British deputy high commissioner in Chennai and ex-officio president of Indo-British health initiative (IBHI).

“The collabration can happen in different levels. The state governments can partner with British entities to upgrade the existing primary health centers (PHCs). Further, there could be public-private-partnerships in primary health care. In the private sector, family-run businesses or corporate entities who are keen to enter healthcare can also consider joint venture partnerships with UK hospitals and GP networks,” he added.

In UK, the large networks of general practitioners are keen to enter the high-growth Indian market. Besides, British universities and hospitals also are interested in providing training and technical assistance to Indian entities.

As a pilot project, the UK government is in talks with the state administration of Kerala and three PHCs in Thiruvananthapuram have been identified for the purpose. Under the partnership, UK government will be probably introducing palliative car, diabetes care, providing advanced training for doctors and specialty training for nurses.

The UK government also is keenly looking at the growing medical devices market in India. The Diabetes Summit happening in Chennai on December 18 and 19, will witness the participation of 15 medical technology companies, apart from 20 British Universities.

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Source: Kerala Kaumudi



Source: Mathrubhumi

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Round-the-clock service of doctors in health centres



The service of doctors will be available 24 hours at various community health centres and primary health centres in the district from December 10.

Health Minister V S Sivakumar said that the service of the doctors would be available round-the-clock at the 17 community health centres and the two primary health centres in the district.

Twenty-one doctors from the NRHM have been appointed for making available the service 24 hours. The community health centres at Palode, Attingal, Fort, Puthanthoppu, Manamboor, Kanyakulangara, Kesavapuram, Vithura, Venpakal, Vizhinjam, Vellarada, Vellanadu, Pulluvila, Poonthura, Perungadavila, Poovar and Nemom will have the 24-hour service.

Pozhiyoor and Chenkal Public Health Centres will also have the round-the-clock service of doctors.

Sivakumar also said that doctors would be available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the community health centres at Vamanapuram and Malayinkeezh.

The same service will be available at the public health centres at Balaramapuram, Tholikodu, Valiyathura and Perumbazhuthoor.

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Source: Mathrubhumi