Vikas Vaidya

By Vikas Vaidya : In a sudden move, the deans of some of the Government Medical Colleges in Maharashtra have been transferred. This move has raised an eyebrows as everybody at their places were doing fine work. Medical Education Minister Dr Jeetendra Avhad has taken the stand of shifting those who have completed more than 3 years. The Dean of Nagpur GMC Dr Rajaram Powar has been transferred to Mumbai at the office of Director, Medical Education and Research. He will be taking charge as Joint Director. The Dean of Yavatmal’s late Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College Dr Anand Dongre has been transferred to Solapur GMC. Dr Shinde, Dean of Solapur has been shifted to Latur GMC. Dr Dipti Dongaonkar, Dean of Latur GMC will take charge as Dean at Yavatmal. As a child Dr Powar used to sit beside his shoemaker father on streets, had dreamt of becoming something to serve the society. After attaining medical graduation and becoming lecturer later Dr Powar took charge as Head of Microbiology...

By Vikas Vaidya: Recently a young lady named Kavita (name changed) from Nagpur met with a road accident; she sustained fracture of dorsal spine (comprised of twelve vertebrae and is the longest section of the spinal cord). She walked into Wockhardt hospital with complaints of severe back pain. Her case was handled by noted Neurosurgeon Dr Ajay Kurve. She was discharged within 96 hours from the hospital without any pain after successfully undergoing a surgery with Percutaneous technique at the hospital. This is for the first time that such type of procedure has been performed by any doctor in Central India. Explaining about this case, Dr Kurve said, “She had spine fracture wherein her spine became unstable plus she has severe pain. Under medical line of management,  absolute bedrest for 2-3 months is advised. In such case, patient has very restricted mobility for six months after taking complete bedrest. Patients can  suffer from urinary tract infection, chest infecti...

By Vikas Vaidya: Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided not to recommend  increased intake from 02 to 03 seats to ENT (MS) of in respect of students being trained at Government Medical College, Nagpur. At the same time the MCI has recommended increased quoto to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha affiliated to Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed University in General Medicine, Orthopaedics, Anaesthesiology, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry. The Postgraduate Committee considered the Council assessor’s report and decided to recommend not to recognize MS(ENT) qualification against increased intake from 02 to 03 seats granted by Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik in respect of students being trained at GMC, Nagpur because of the deficiencies that include Unit II has only 2 faculty; hence it cannot be considered as PG Unit. There are no Senior Residents in the department. Average daily operative workload of major operations is only 1-2/day which is inadeq...

By Vikas Vaidya: A 60 year old woman who conceived in 1978, never delivered the baby which was dead. The doctors at Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital had told her that it needed to be removed. She went absconding and the feotus remained in her body. Now, she suddenly suffered some pain and brought to NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences where, during diagnostic tests, the baby skeleton was detected in abdomen, and it was removed by a team of doctors. A 60year old lady from MP,came to surgical Outpatient Department (OPD) of Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Hingna with a mass in her abdomen since last 2 months. After investigations it was found that she was having a mass containing a matured foetal bones encapsulated in a calcified sac.After obtaining detailed history her brother told that in 1978 she was full term pregnant and had some complications for which she was refered to Mayo or IGGMCH where doctors told that foetus might have died and she has to undergo an ...

By Vikas Vaidya Outbreak is a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook and published in 1987 which deals with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States. Nobody had thought then that the same virus would play havoc in 2014. Now World Health Organisation has declared it as emergency disease. The airports all over the world have been put on alert. Even Maharashtra State hurriedly issued some instructions, surprisingly, the authorities at Nagpur did not get any such. International Health division of the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Government of India has communicated to Air Port Health Officer (APHO) for necessary vigilance at all international entry points. International Health division has been asked to collect information with the help of APHO of concerned airport about the list of suspected passengers, if any and their relevant details  and transmit the same to the respective State Government(s) immedia...

By Vikas Vaidya Nagpur is fast on way to become medical hub because of its easily accessible location and presence of high level of expertise with matching advanced infrastructure.Almost all the medical facilities available in big metros are available here and that too in fraction of their cost. It needs organised, small to medium-sized dispensaries, hospitals are here. There should be structural development system. A three tier system is proper. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary system should be there. Then services can be streamlined, cost efficacy will increase, research aspect will be well taken care of. Nagpur has become a medical hub.The patienys fron adjoining states like Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgadh and Andhra Pradesh come to Nagpur for the treatment of medical problems. Patients from Nagpur are no more going to Hyderabad and Mumbai as all diagnostics and treatment modalities like PET scan, Radiotherapy, Cancer surgery, Interventional Radiology, Bypass surgeries , Complex A...

By Vikas Vaidya Chemotherapy, the term is used in case of Cancer patients. Wherever surgery is not applicable in case of cancer patients, Chemotherapy is given to them. In this therapy, drug is injected in the body which kills cancer cells, but unfortunately it kills good cells also causing various problems to the patients. Now after a lot of research in this field, doctors have come out with the Targetted Drug Delivery to remove this side-effect. It actually targets the molecule that is creating problem and hit it. Dr P S Kadam Amare, Head of Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory, Tata Memorial Hospital said, “This therapy is being applied in case of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), (CML is a type of cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and invades the blood. In CML, leukemia cells tend to build up in the body over time, but many people don’t have any symptoms for at least a few years). It only hit abnormal cell. Genetic marker needs to be identified then...

The other day, Nagpur’s one Minister said that Nagpur was becoming medical hub. Is it really true? May be in the sense of rise in number of hospitals in city, may be in terms of all types of health services including Cancer. Now what not is done in Nagpur? Everything means everything. Nagpur has multispeciality hospitals, specialised hospitals focussing on particular specility. The hospitality of these hospitals is excellent, of course black sheep is always there. Still. The treatments are available at Government Hospitals, but most of them one find in private hospitals. In a way private hospitals are contributing 80 per cent share. This is because of improper policy of Government. We have best of the best Oncologists like Dr Anand Pathak, Oncosurgeons, Neurosugeons, neurologists, orthopaedic surgeons, critical care consultants, Cardiologists, Cardiac Surgeons, ENT specialists, Sexologist, Pathologist, Physicians, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Radiologists, Ophthalmologists, G...