Health Matters: Jehangir Hospital awarded platinum standing in stroke care; Freedom from Diabetes helped 10,000 diabetics

Jehangir Hospital awarded platinum standing in stroke care
For excellence in stroke care, Jehangir Hospital in Pune has been awarded the Platinum standing for the fourth quarter of 2020 and the primary quarter of 2021 in succession.
The hospital is amongst seven hospitals within the nation that has obtained the Platinum award for 2 consecutive quarters, therefore changing into one among the many prime 10 hospitals for excellence in stroke care in India.
The World Stroke Organisation (WSO) has given this award to hospitals and stroke champions who’re dedicated to providing standardised and well timed remedy to stroke sufferers.
The Code stroke programme on the hospital was launched by, then head of the Emergency Department, Late Dr Fiyaz Pasha in 2015.

“We have an organised course of in place whereby emergency Physicians coordinate with Neurologists, Radiologists and intensivists to hasten the method of offering high quality care to any affected person presenting with a stroke to the Emergency Room. This award is recognition by the World Stroke Organisation for the environment friendly implementation of this course of, mentioned Dr Soumya Chandrasekhar, the Head of Emergency Department at Jehangir Hospital.
Jehangir Hospital CEO Vinod Sawantwadkar mentioned the hospital’s stroke programme was launched on World Stroke Day on October 29, 2011 for rehabilitating stroke sufferers. Since then, hospital’s emergency division has saved many lives.
He added, “If the patient reaches the hospital within the window period of 180 minutes from the onset of the first symptoms, they can be thrombolysed following which there is a high probability of a complete reversal of the deficits suffered,” he mentioned.
The standards met by the hospital to get the platinum standing, contains door to needle time, door to groin time, recanalisation process charge out of complete stroke incidence within the hospital, CT/MRI imaging procedures and others.
Freedom from Diabetes helped 10,000 diabetics
Freedom From Diabetes (FFD), an organisation working in the direction of diabetes reversal, has helped 10,000 diabetics return to regular life. People from over 30 nations have enrolled and skilled important enchancment in well being and high quality of life along with freedom from remedy, FFD Founder Dr Pramod Tripathi mentioned.
FFD has achieved this feat as a part of its flagship programme known as the Intensive Reversal Program (IRP). The IRP is an internet programme primarily based on 4 scientific protocols, specifically food plan, train, inner-transformation, and medical approaches, added Tripathi.
“Making 100,000 people free of diabetes medicines and insulin is a goal which I’ve been working on for the last eight years. At FFD we follow a ‘Hi-Touch, Hi Tech’ approach where we are constantly innovating on how sustainable behavioural change with practice and support systems like group therapy, inner transformation, learned optimism practice, identity change; supported by mentors, doctors, dieticians, exercise experts, psychologists, and the latest technology can help in achieving the ultimate goal of reversal.”
FFD has a cloud-based app known as the ‘FFD App’ the place customers enter their blood sugar readings, BP, and many others. for personalised monitoring by the crew. Besides, patient-specific food plan and workout routines are additionally uploaded repeatedly on the app.
COVID-19 preparedness stays a problem for poor, rural households: Survey
A yr and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey carried out by Sambodhi Panels, an initiative launched by Sambodhi Research, offers a brand new perception into the preparedness of India’s susceptible sections of society because the nation tries to beat the devastation attributable to the second wave of the pandemic and prepares to satisfy a distinctly doable third wave.
Sambodhi, a analysis organisation providing evidence-driven insights to stakeholders in world growth, carried out this survey in July throughout 10 states: Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Gujarat.
Among the 7,116 households surveyed, solely round 20 per cent had thermometers and about 50 per cent had over-the-counter medicine obtainable to deal with signs like fever, headache.
However, solely 9 per cent of the households had oximeters whereas a dismal three per cent had entry to oxygen cylinders.
Also, 40 per cent of the respondents have been conscious of medical suppliers/retailers close by to entry, in case they’d COVID signs. The respondents additionally confirmed a lack of know-how on when to hospitalize a COVID constructive individual.

While near all respondents, 95 per cent, have been in a position to affiliate at the least one of many early signs to COVID comparable to fever, dry cough, problem respiratory and complications, solely 18 per cent of respondents related diarrhoea with COVID and a fewer quantity, 4 per cent and a pair of per cent, with conjunctivitis and pores and skin rashes, respectively.
“Given how dynamic the course of this pandemic is, we cannot afford extensive lead times that accompany primary surveys. We need a rapid generation of data insights to meet urgent response needs in crisis situations. Further, we need data collection across time periods to be able to study trends and forecast to be able to plan for the future,” mentioned Sambodhi co-founder Swapnil Shekhar.