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Indywood carnival honours doctors
Twenty five medical practitioners were awarded Indywood medical excellence awards, which was organised as part of Indywood film carnival-2018.
The awards are meant for felicitating healthcare practitioners and organisations who offer healthcare services to the society.
Dr. Gauthamadas Udipi, Professor of Psychiatry was awarded the personality of the year in health care sector, this year.
Indywood’s life time achievement award was given to Dr. Kamini Rao (Golden Pioneer In Gynaecology), Dr. Mohan (Specialist Care Diabetologist) and Padma Shree Dr. Ahmed Ali (Surgical Wizard Of Gastroenterology).
The awards were presented by Mohammed Ibrahim Al Qahtani who is with Saudi Armaco, Saudi Arabia and Ravindra Arora, president of Bharat Cine and TV writer & TV writer association. Mr. Arora is also a committee member of Dada Saheb Phalke Academy, Western India film producers association.
Other awards which were presented during the day were in two categories including medical excellence among individual and organisations of medical excellence.
Winners in the organisations category included Apollo Remote Healthcare Services for largest telemedicine network, Maa ENT Hospital, best ENT care hospital, Grewal Eye Institute as best hospital for opthalmic care, Aster MIMS for excellence in patient care, Fathima Healthcare Group in best overseas healthcare insurance firm and Sai life sciences limited for being leading organisation in integrated CRO.
At the event, Mr. Arora congratulated all award winners and requested them to continue their services in the health care segment, “for that is important to build a healthy India”.
Indywood also awarded media excellence awards-2018.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad – December 05th, 2018
Kanti Velugu lighting up lives
Kanti Velugu lighting up lives
Hyderabad:
Kanti Velugu scheme, the mega health initiative, aimed at providing all services related to eye care, has touched a unique milestone by screening a whopping one crore persons in the State.
The scheme was launched on August 15 and by December 3, has managed to screen 1,00,02,544 persons for various eye related ailments. In fact, the scheme has also achieved a unique milestone by distributing close to 17 lakh reading glasses to persons who underwent screening.
According to the latest statistics, the Health Department had distributed nearly two lakh prescription glasses to persons, who were diagnosed with eye-defects, during the course of screening.
Senior doctors have pointed out that the distribution of such large number of reading and prescription glasses is quite unprecedented because it was never before attempted in the country.
The mega eye screening camps created a large number of referrals for tertiary and secondary care. Thanks to Kanti Velugu, now there are 4.50 lakh persons who will undergo cataract surgeries at various secondary eye-care institutions, which have been identified across the State.
The scheme has also identified close to 2.5 lakh persons, who need to undergo complicated eye related procedures, at tertiary eye care institutions including SD Eye Hospital in city, Regional Eye Hospital in Warangal, Pushpagiri Eye Institute, Secunderabad and LV Prasad Eye Institute.
source: http://www.telanganatoday.com / Telangana Today / Home> Telangana / by Telangana Today / December 05th, 2018
Bhavan’s bag a double in handball championship
Hyderabad:
Bhavan’s Sri Aurobindo Junior College, Sainikpuri bagged a double in the 64th HDSGF inter-college handball championship.
Bhavan’s outplayed Railway Junior College 11-6 in the final to clinch the boys title.
However, in the girls final, Bhavan’s faced stiff resistance from Kasturba Gandhi Junior College before the match ended in a five-all draw. Both the teams were Sudhakar, District Youth Sports Officer, Hyderabad District, and P.Ramu, Bhavans junior college ,Physical Director, were guests on the day.
source: http://www.telanganatoday.com / Telangana Today / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by Telangana Today, Sports Bureau
Trisha powers Hyderabad women to big win
Hyderabad:
G Trisha continued her impressive form. The young all-rounder struck 52 and took 5 for 17 as Hyderabad thrashed Rajasthan by 78 runs in the Elite Group C women’s National one-day championship league match at Nimpur in Cuttack on Sunday. This was Hyderabad’s second successive win after beating hosts Odisha on Saturday.
In Sunday’s match, Hyderabad put up a good score of 207 for 5 in 50 overs. Apart from Trisha’s 84-ball knock, veteran Mamata Kanojia slammed 88 (9×4, 1×6). Trisha and Mamata added 107 runs for the second wicket.
Rajasthan were done in by Trisha and were bowled out for 129 in 49.1 overs. Trisha returned with figures of 10-4-17-5.
Brief scores: Hyderabad 207/5 in 50 overs (G Trisha 52, Mamata Kanojia 88, Vanka Pooja 25 n.o.) bt Rajasthan 129 in 49.1 overs (AD Garg 61, G Trisha 5/17).
source: http://www.telanganatoday.com / Telangana Today / Home> Sport> Cricket / by Sports Bureau, Telangana Today / December 02nd, 2018