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Feti’s fantastic flight to glory

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By Vikas Vaidya, What does she get to learn in her school? Manjusha Vijay Maske, a second standard girl of E-Anganwadi at Fetri village, with shy smile replies, “Everything!”  Does her teacher read out the things on the blackboard to the students? “No! The board says all the things, we get to see it and listen,” comes the reply from that little child. Manjusha learns in E-anganwadi set up in Fetri, a village adopted by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, just 20 km away from Nagpur. Fetri is a recent example of how a small village can be transformed into a fantastic livable place if a powerful politician adopts it and lets it grow in a different way. Fadnavis adopted it responding to the call given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who had asked all MLAs, MLCs, MPs in the country to adopt one village and develop it.  Fetri has all amenities being developed, including, state of the art hospital, e-Anganwadi, posh administrative office, good infrastructure. The villag
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City’s three innovators create bin that converts liquid waste into fertiliser

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Pratik Harde, Prateek Malhotra and Ritu Malhotra By Vikas Vaidya In most houses leftover food is either dumped in sink, bathroom, toilet or by roadside. Often, food containers get stuck in drains leading to choking of drainage line making it difficult for anybody to clear it. The unclear drain, drainage lines and leftovers thrown by roadside pose health hazards to not only the dwellers but also other residents. Taking cognisance of health and hygiene of citizens, three young Nagpurians have come up with a solution -- Ezy Liquid Disposal Bin and Ezy Vomit Bag -- to the growing problem. Their innovation is not only useful in clean disposal of liquid waste but also in converting it in hybrid fertiliser. Acknowledging its usefulness, the product was adjudged ‘The Best Innovation’ by Godrej recently. The young innovators are Pratik Harde, Prateek and Ritu Malhotra. The trio has founded ‘Innovations’ through which they have come up with three more products and acquire
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Govt to consider grading of GMCs’ doctors for choice transfers

By Vikas Vaidya With a view to bring transparency in transfers of doctors working in Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in Maharashtra, Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has decided to consider the grading of doctors for choice transfers. This is probably for the first time in the country that such a decision would be implemented. Till now doctors transferred and most of them got those posting canceled through their various contacts or some never joined the duties at new places. It resulted in services getting hampered. According to sources in Mantralaya these transfers have become headache for the ministries. To find the way out of it, Medical Education department has come up with the solution of providing grading to doctors. Girish Mahajan, Minister of Medical Education told ‘The Hitavada’, “To get the gradation, doctors will have to upload their profile details on department’s website. A, B, C, D gradation will be given as per the details of individual doctors
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MUHS goes for total academic revamp

By Vikas Vaidya Most of the students be they of any education-medical, engineering, science, commerce, art-- lack in leadership skills, lack in communication skills, lack in efforts of self enhancement and most important they don’t have research aptitude. Considering all these aspects, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has revamped academic structure of medical education. The change will not only compel students to do research, develop various skills but also provide them platform which was not available till now. The change is made in four parts, namely: Capacity building; providing platforms to faculty, students to present themselves; Decentralisation of academic activities and collaborations. Capacity Building Dr Mohan Khamgaonkar, Pro-Vice Chancellor of MUHS who was in Nagpur elaborated the revamp while talking to ‘The Hitavada’. “Under the capacity building aspect we trained 300 people from all pathies for research, communication skill, leadership skills. W
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Cochlear Implant facility starts at Nagpur GMCH

By Vikas Vaidya The cochlear implant procedure, through which deaf children can be able to hear, has taken momentum with Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) completing 13 such procedures and facility now started at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) too. With the facility started at both the public health institutions, the poor patients who otherwise were hesitant to go for it because of the cost involved in it, would be benefited largely. Fully dedicated Cochlear Implant Unit and Care Facility at GMCH was inaugurated at the hands of Dr Viral Kamdar, President of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Institute of Medical Sciences and Human Resources in presence of Padmashree Dr Milind V Kirtane, noted cochlear implant surgeon and pioneer in the field; Dr Abhimanyu Niswade, Dean, GMCH and faculty members of various disciplines of GMCH. The Cochlear Implant (CI) Unit has a fully dedicated team to manage all the aspects. The aspects include assessment of p
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Govt gives mere Rs 70 per patient for food in its hospitals

By Vikas Vaidya What could be termed as mockery, Public Health Department of Maharashtra has sanctioned a meagre amount of Rs 70 for providing food per patient admitted in its own hospitals throughout the State. This food provision includes two-times tea, morning breakfast, lunch and dinner. According to some doctors in Nagpur, sanctioning such a meagre amount for providing food will not only lead to corruption but also result in not getting proper food to patients. Because one can not hire quality food service in just Rs 70. There are 495 hospitals under the department including rural hospitals, sub-district hospitals, general hospitals, women hospitals, district hospitals. The service of providing food to patients was discontinued and Government was considering to restart the service. The amount sanctioned for the food service in all these hospitals is Rs 47.28 crore. If this much amount is taken into account then daily every patient would get Rs 70 for his or her food. As per
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Hospital Acquired Infection becoming a menace, claiming deaths too

By Vikas Vaidya A man, aged over 80 years, went to a city hospital with a complaint of fever. A very senior doctor suspected a positive dengue and advised hospitalisation. The old man was admitted to the hospital. His tests for dengue came negative and he was discharged. But a new disease has afflicted him-- Cellulitis, a potentially dangerous bacterial infection that affects the deeper layers of skin. Cellulitis can develop anywhere on the body, but in adults, it most commonly affects the skin of the lower legs. In this old man’s case, Cellulitis proved to be very dangerous because he was already suffering from Varicose Veins. In patients of Varicose Veins, Cellulitis can be a fatal as Varicose Veins are enlarged, swollen, twisted blood vessels often caused by damaged or faulty valves that allow blood to travel in the wrong direction. This infection he carried came after his stay in hospital. This is one of the several cases of Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI), people get admitte
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