Vikas Vaidya

                                                             Dr A K Misra.                                             World Veterinary Day MAFSU VC wants to raise the bar of research By Vikas Vaidya Dr Aditya Kumar Misra is a versatile personality. He took charge as Vice-Chancellor of Maharashtra Animal Husbandry Fisheries Sciences University (MAFSU) and everything started changing. From work culture to infrastructure, research everything saw quality enhancement. Now he wants to raise the bar of research standards at MAFSU. “I want to raise the bar of research standard. The output of research should be that the teaching should become useful to farmers. I feel that the quality of research should be so that the researchers should get peer award. I believe in image building of a scientist as it gives recognition to organisation too,” pointed Dr Misra. “Area of research should be in the frontiers and should be based on regional problems, of public utility. Apart fr

MPSC data could have been saved By Vikas Vaidya The server of Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) has been crashed because of virus and the data got deleted and the lacuna came to the fore. Even if the data got deleted, as per Information Technology (IT) policy, organisation should maintain a backup of the data. It should be in real time format, not in a offline mode. It is very important for MPSC to find out how the virus got injected in the system. Whether they did not have  a firewall installed or good anti-virus or Intrusion Detection system with them? Was the firewall and antivirus configured or was it in default mode? These are the questions remained unanswered. Dr Harold D’Costa, State Cyber Crime Expert said, “If anybody injects a virus in the system then according to IT act 2008, the compensation upto one crore rupees has to be given to the victim. So MPSC should find it out through the log sheet whether the virus was injected through internet or was it injected l

“Dont worry urinary incontinence has  cure” By Vikas Vaidya He has written many books which have been refered by students of Post Graduation (Gynaecology), among those, important three are Modern Gynaecology, Modern Obstetrics and Practical Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He performs Tension-free Vaginal Tape (TVT) procedure but he is expert in Trans Obturator Tape (TOT) operation. He is performing this procedure for the last five years and his success rate is 92-95 per cent. Dr. Ajit Virkud, a well-known gynecologist who has specialized training in Urogynecology (management of urinary problems in women) is in Nagpur for a seminar and operative workshop to be held at Dande Hospital on Sunday. He is here to create awareness amongst Gynecologists and public at large about the problem of Urinary Incontinence in older women. The prevalence urinary incontinence in postmenopausal Indian women is as high as 59% according to studies done in India. Dr Virkud said, “25 per cent of these 59 per c

Why parents do not feel embarrassed when they watch indecent things? By Vikas Vaidya She was 16 when she made her debut in the role of Peshawe Madhavrao's wife Ramabai in the Marathi TV serial Swami. She has a Master's degree in Linguistics from Pune University; however, she has continued with acting as her career on receiving, after the success of Swami, many more roles, including those in Shrikant, a TV serial based on one of Saratchandra Chatterjee's novels; The Great Maratha; Draupadi; Hasratein; Meerabai; Teacher; Khel; Sparsh; and Sonpari were well appreciated. Her role in the TV serial Avantika on Alpha Marathi channel has received much acclaim. She works in entertainment sector, but she has never compromised unlike her other colleagues in this glamourous field. She has altogether different views. Mrinal Kulkarni pained when she heard about gangrape incidents. She said, “This is an act by the persons with perverted minds. At the same time parents should hav

Yes, there is some pressure on docs while treating VIPs                                                  By Vikas Vaidya                                                    Dr Sanjay Desai treated SRK,                                           Dr Prakash Kotwal  performed surgery on Prime Minister * During the stay of Shahrukh Khan fondly called as King Khan at Breach Candy Hospital, there were 20 ambulances standing outside the hospital. Lot of fans, mediapersons were waiting to get a glimpse of SRK or doctor to know minute to minute account. There was so much pressure, said Dr Sanjay Desai. * “When I visited Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, I was asked for a complete plan about how I would operate upon his wrist? I took care to have two different sets of instruments. Dr Singh is a Prime Minister so one can imagine the kind of pressure on me - said Dr Prakash Kotwal. Dr Sanjay Desai, noted Arthroscopy and Joint Replacement Surgeon and Dr Prakash Kotwal, Professor and He

You need a psychiatric treatment’ should be a positive advice By Vikas Vaidya When anybody behaves whimsically, people either jokingly; sarcastically or angrily, ask him to go to a psychiatrist and have the treatment. This ‘you need a psychiatric treatment’ type of advice should be positive and should be serious enough. If mental health is not taken seriously then its consequences have larger impact which one has to carry throughout the life. This was opinion of the city’s psychiatrists on the occasion of installation of the new  team of Indian Psychiatric Society’s Nagpur chapter. Dr Sudhir Bhave, eminent Psychiatrist, said, “The treatment of mental illness is equally important as the physical health. As we unknowingly take care of our kith and kin during his physical illness, same cooperation must be given to the person with mental illness.” Some groups led by Dr Bhave or he himself have been visiting schools and colleges to spread the awareness about mental health. Dr Vivek Kir

Nagpur to become virtual international gateway, courtesy BSNL By Vikas Vaidya Nagpur BSNL Internet  node is designated as A1 Internet  node next to Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. This will make Nagpur a virtual international Internet  Gateway. It will start functioning by June, 2013, informed K K Singh, General Manager (Operation and Planning), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Nagpur. He is presently holding the charge of Principal General Manager, Nagpur.“Now voice service is on decline and broadband service users are on rise. The users of data service will be increased in near future. About 140 million people are using internet at national level which constitutes to 50 per cent of the total population. Considering all these aspects, BSNL too has started improving its internet service and that is yielding results” said Singh.With Nagpur becoming virtual international gateway, the interruption will be less, service will be improved.  Internet users of Central India and Nagpur

Professional commitment for complete well-being of patient lacks in doctors By Vikas Vaidya Dr Tarun Sharma of Sankara Netralaya rightly pointed out that the diebetologist should tell his patient to immediately approach ophthalmologist if he was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. Unfortunately it does not happen. Why the doctor of that particular speciality do not tell patient about the other complications? Dr Jagdish Parikh, Interventional Cardiologist has the answer. He says, doctors lack professional commitment for complete well-being their patient. Dr Jagdish Parikh who is Director Cathlab of S R Mehta Cardiac Institute, Nanavati Hospital was in city to be one of the faculties at Best of Cardiology 2013 held at Hotel Centre Point. Dr Parikh said, “Doctors should see patient as a person of whole body and not through the eye of specialist of that particular organ. Unfortunately that awareness is lacking among doctors too. When a doctor investigate the patient, he or she should t

Are you going for proper test to diagnose Malaria? n A completely cured patient of Maralia may also carry the parasite. Hence, blood smear test is extremely important, feels Dr L G Ramavat and Dr Sudha Ramavat, retired professors from AIIMS, New Delhi By Vikas Vaidya It is high time now that it needs to be seen scrupulously while conducting tests to diagnose Malaria. The reason is when a person gets cured of Malaria, the antigen test shows a negative result. But if the same person goes for microscopic or blood film test then he may test positive for Malaria. The reason behind this is antigen test gives the result for Falciparam malaria which is very common. The microscopic test can detect Malarie parasite in the body, diagnosing the person positive for Malaria. The person who gets cured may feel healthy but mosquitoes in the atmosphere bite him. This bite may allow the entry of Malarie parasite, because of that he may fall ill frequently, erroneously assuming this condition as

“People should not neglect care of eye” By Vikas Vaidya He is Director of Shri Bhagwan Mahavir Vitreoretinal Services Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. It is his post but he has built up a team of dedicated professionals related to Vitreoretinal services at his Netralaya. According to him, though people have become health-conscious but they neglect organ eye. Less number of doctors of other branches too are aware about various eye diseases. For example if one adult diagnosed of diabetes, it needs to be treated with multi-disciplinary approach and it is not happening. Dr Tarun Sharma, noted Ophthalmologist is in city to attend the installation ceremony of Vidarbha Ophthalmic Society on Sunday. He said, “When a five year old child diagnosed with diabetes, it should check the eyes after five years of diagnosis. But in Type-II diabetes the person should immediately consult his ophthalmologist. The management of diabetes is very important that involves multidisciplinary approach.” Accord

Around 40000 seats remain vacant in Engineering in State In MBA-1928 and in polytechnic vacancy goes up to 9185 in Nagpur division By Vikas Vaidya Even after All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) relaxed the HSC percentage criterion for getting admission to Diploma and Degree engineering, the vacancy in these faculties registered increase. Last year in Engineering around 35000 seats remained vacant, this year the figure gone up to around 40000. Comparatively in MBA the percentage vacancy has gone down. Last year the vacancy in MBA was 2677 while this year it has registered 1928 seats. The number of seats remained vacant last year in polytechnic was 6011, this year it has gone up to 9185, informed Dr Krantikumar Dhote, Executive Director of Raisoni Group of Insitutions. This year 2,80,042 students appeared for the State Engineering Entrance Examination (SEEE) as compared to 2,49,052 in 2010 and 2,54,208 last year. Last year, around 35,000 seats were vacant. In Nagpur Un