Medical imaging specialist Barco has announced that Azienda Ospedaliera Spedali Civili di Brescia, in Northern Italy, has acquired over 80 Barco medical display systems as part of a regional PACS program. To date, this is the largest installation of color displays and Coronis Fusion 6MP DL for Barco in Italy.
Cholera and other water borne diseases, which have claimed 39 lives since August, have started infected more people in Orissa’s Rayagada district in the last few days, and triggered panic among the residents, media reports.
Nine winners and 19 runners up won the coveted Asian Hospital Management Awards (AHMA) 2010 held in August, 2010 at the Grand Hilton Seoul, Korea. Of these, two hospitals from India won the awards.
The Apollo Hospitals Group launched the first standalone dialysis centre in Public Private Partnership with Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS).
Shailesh Niyogi appointed as the Director – Lokmanya Group of Hospitals. Known as the transformation and Growth Guru in the field of small to medium scale corporate companies, Niyogi will be overseeing the overall development of Lokmanya Hospital. He will be spear heading the brand building and expansion exercise for Lokmanya Group of Hospitals, Pune in other cities in India.
To counter the increasing cases of malaria in the city, Wockhardt Foundation along with BMC is carrying out the anti malaria drive across slums of Mumbai, for the months of August and September 2010.
Medicine students starting at Stanford University School of Medicine will this year be given an iPad as part of a trial programme in integrate the mobile device into medical education.
The proposal to form societies for each of the six AIIMS like institutions which are being set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY) has been approved by the Union Cabinet. These societies will be functional till the AIIMS-like institutions are brought under an Act of Parliament.
The state government of New South Wales, Australia, is planning to abolish eight area health services and set up 17 hospital networks in their place.
The Hon’ble Chief Minister Smt Sheila Dikshit pledged to support the Billion Hearts Beating (BHB) campaign launched by Apollo Hospitals Group.
Godrej Memorial Hospital has opened the unique life & limb saving – Multiplace Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment (HBOT) centre, recently and became the first private hospital in Mumbai to set up a Multiplace chamber facility to provide patients with Hyperbaric Oxygen, at its newly commissioned centre.
A new facility offering Indian women a major breakthrough treatment for uterine fibroids, a common gynaecological condition, is opening at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai.
