Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday inaugurated Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital in the city. Equipped with top-class facilities and trained staff, the new 10,000 sqft centre will serve as a one stop solution to all eye care needs. The new centre is…
Good news for attendants whose relatives are undergoing treatment in All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The institute has decided to build a shelter house in the campus to provide them accommodation for their short stay. Now the…
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS Bhubaneswar has set an ambitious target of increasing its bed strength to 1,000 from the current 450. The institute has also inaugurated a canteen on campus for relatives and attendants of patients. The premier institute has…
“47 patients are healthy and doing normal activities” The Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) unit of the Clinical Haematology Department at SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack, has performed 50 transplantation cases, earning it the reputation of being the only State government…
The next time you visit a health care facility or a physician, you will not need to carry all your diagnostic or path-lab reports but a small ATM-like card as all your health records will be stored digitally in that.…
Seeking to provide doorstep healthcare facilities in rural Odisha, Hon’ble Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge) Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today flagged off 11 Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) which will travel across villages in the state providing…
Scientists in the U.S. and India have found an inexpensive treatment that could possibly save hundreds of thousands of newborns each year. And it turns out, the secret weapon was sitting in Asian kitchens all along: probiotic bacteria that are…
A telemedicine project started by an Odisha-based social entrepreneur is slowly going national after the Central government adopted it as a model project two years ago. Started in 2009, the unique model that focusses on sustainability involves training of local…
As many as 30 modular operation theaters (OTs) will get operational in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS Bhubaneswar within a year. Patients will not wait for their turn to go under knife after these OTs get see…
After introduction of electronic vaccination intelligence network (eVIN), the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district is working towards equipping cold chain points with temperature loggers under the eVIN system to strictly enable storage of vaccines at recommended temperature. Funded by the Global Alliance…