In a significant step towards strengthening patient safety and ensuring a transparent patient-centric environment, PGIMER Chandigarh has constituted a dedicated Vigilance Team to prevent exploitation of patients and their attendants within the Institute premises.
The initiative addresses a critical gap that has been felt since the establishment of the Advanced Cardiac Centre in 2009.
The officer’s body, earlier kept at the Government Multi Specialty Hospital in Sector 16, was moved to PGIMER on Saturday. However, Kumar’s family is yet to give consent for the autopsy, sources said.
Surgeons at government-run Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) have performed a scarless surgery of thyroid gland of a 28-year-old woman with such surgical procedure claimed to be conducted for the first time in Odisha.
Health Minister Sakina Itoo Wednesday said the medical reports of tests conducted by various national level health institutions do not show any medical reason for these deaths.
The previously five-bedded liver ICU and five-bedded high dependency unit has been upgraded to 10-bedded ICU.
Prof Vikas Gautam, department of medical microbiology (PGIMER) and Dr Prabhu Patil, principal scientist, (CSIR-IMTECH) have discovered a new species of a bacterium that causes serious infections, especially in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
In an appeal to all the doctors, Dr Rajeev Chauhan, working as Assistant Professor in Department Of Anaesthesia, PGIMER Chandigarh, claimed he has been working on innovation since last one year and filed a patent for the same on 22 December 2019 to Indian Patent Authority.
Doctors at PGIMER said the all the tests were clean and the CM was found to be suffering from slight weakness as a result of the earlier bout of viral fever.
About 200 National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers from Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh and its affiliated colleges will provide preliminary support…
