Metro Multispecialty Hospital, organizing Fundamental Critical Care Support provider Course

METRO MULTISPECIALITY HOSPITAL
L-94, SECTOR-11, NOIDA-201301
Tel: 0120-2522959, 2442666
Fax: 0120-2442555

Circular for Fundamental Critical Care Support provider Course (FCCS)
(Certified by Critical Care Society of USA)

This is to inform that Metro Centre of Respiratory diseases and Critical Care, Metro Multispecialty Hospital, Noida is organizing Fundamental Critical Care Support provider Course(FCCS) (Certified by Critical Care Society of USA ). Interested candidates may contact the undersigned for the registration formalities.

_{Note- Course fee includes Education material ( Book), Workshop and Certificate from Critical Care Society of USA besides teaching lessons.}

Inaugration of Diagnostic wing

November 29, 2011

Metro delighted to introduce The New Diagnostic wing at Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute Sector-11, Noida. The Diagnostic wing equipped with state-of-the-art MRI, IMRT, CT Scan, HMX Coulter, Siemens-RxL, KX 21 Coulter, Advia-Centaur & Vidas , & BacT-Alert-3D.

The wing was inaugurated by Dr Jagdish Prasad (Director Health Services).  The motto is to introduce these high end medical equipments and make them familiar with the doctors. Dr Shobha Dhawan (Dy Medical Director) welcomes all guests, Dr Purshotam Lal (Chairman Metro Hospitals) then introduces everyone with the New Diagnostic Wing. Followed by small words by the Guest of Honour Dr Jagdish Prasad (Director Health Services). Lastly, vote of thanks by Dr Sandeep Chatrath (Group COO).

Fellowship Course in Critical Care

Metro Hospitals & Heart Institute, Noida Invites application  for 2 years FELLOWSHIP COURSE IN CRITICAL CARE (Under auspices of the Critical Care Education Foundation, Mumbai)

Information Leaflet for fellowship course in critical care

1. Total duration of the course is 24 months (12 months for Part-I (Primary) and another 12 months for part-2 (fellowship). Doctors with MBBS/Diploma must have 2 years experience in hospital before they can register for part–I (of this, one year must be in critical care). MD candidates can apply for registration for Part-I certificate course after MD. After successful completion of Part-I candidates can register for Part-2. They will need to work another 12 months , Read More
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How Do I Know My Heart Is OK?

Heart disease has over years become No. 1 killer among all diseases at India. Of all deaths over 16% are attributed to heart disease. Unfortunately Indians are two times at risk of heart disease than their counterparts from other countries.

We are seeing more and more young people suffer from massive heart attacks. It is a proven fact that smoking doubles the risk of heart attack and sudden cardiac death. Changing life style, sedentary habits, altered food habits and increasing population of smokers has become major concern for coronary heart disease that has already attained epidemic proportion.

The situation of increasing heart attacks among people with no complaints and normal ECG, Echo and TMT has become a matter of serious concern thus bringing a question “How Do I Know My Heart Is OK”.

Don’t worry; all that you need is a general cardiac check up. Your doctor will evaluate your risk factors like family history of heart disease, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, smoking, and others like your weight and life style-Active or Sedentary. This evaluation by and large can put you in the category of person with low, medium or high risk of having heart disease. A person with three or more risk factors shall be put in high risk category while another with two risk factors in medium and another with one risk factor in low risk category.

A high risk individual would need further investigations like Echo, TMT and if necessary, Coronary Angiography.  There are people with 40 to 50% plaque resulting from fat deposition in the coronary arteries, in such cases Echo and TME is usually normal. The heart attack may take place due to rupture of this plaque which is initially causing only 40 to 50% block. Suddenly due to this rupture the artery becomes completely blocked and a heart attack takes place.

Some individuals may be having 90 to 95% blocks in one of the most important arteries of the heart yet may not have much of the symptoms and having silent ischemia. Unfortunately there is no reliable non-invasive test available by which the blocks in the coronary arteries could be detected. CT Angiography which is now available has its own limitations and not suitable for individuals having fast, irregular heart beat, high kidney functions as it uses 80-100cc of dye to do the test besides individual gets exposed to high degree of radiations which in the medical literature has shown to be carrying potential risk to health. In this way we are left with gold standard conventional coronary angiography about which there has been a lot of phobia among people because of discomfort, hospitalization, dye reaction and problems like inability to pass urine. This procedure is done through the groin area and requires preparations like fasting, shaving of groin area etc.

To deal limitations as above, the concept of Metro Coronary Screening (MCS) was introduced in 1997 in which the coronary arteries are checked through the arm via miniaturised catheter and minimum use of dye using formula of fluid dynamics. An Echocardiography along with blood studies is also done at the same time. It is essentially coronary angiography made user friendly as MCS is done on out-patient basis and does not require fasting, taking off clothes etc. The procedure takes not more than 5 minutes and individual can go back home or work within one hour. This way we can find out the individuals having mild blocks (30-40%) and are put on aggressive medical treatment like control of blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol along with life style management, yoga etc. to prevent further progression of the disease. It may be mentioned that during the procedure if any critical block of 80-90% severity is found in any important artery, the same can be rectified by angioplasty/stenting at the same time.

Till date more than 15,000 cases have been done with Metro Coronary Screening with 100% success (Largest series in the World) at Metro Heart Institute, Noida and a research paper to this effect was presented in an International meeting of interventional cardiology.

In nutshell, there is nothing to get worried or panicky, a comprehensive cardiac check up would certainly answer the question “If My Heart Is OK”

BLS and ACLS at Metro Group of Hospitals

BLS and ACLS course certified from American Heart Association is going on in Metro Hospital & Heart Institute, Multispecialty Wing, NOIDA. It is prestigious knowledge imparting course meant for Doctors and other healthcare workers.

The main feature of this activity is that it helps in dealing with the situation of Cardiac Arrest which is life threatening situation and those who are trained in this course can save number of lives.

Metro Group has taken this initiative to train doctors and other paramedical staff for this life saving course around two years back. This is the third time that Metro Hospital, NOIDA is organizing this course.

Around 100 doctors and other paramedical staff registered for this course and were given training in different batches in span of 6 days.

The course started on 12th Sept. 2011(Monday) and will continue till 17th Sept. 2011(Saturday)

Nigerians To Receive World-Class Medical Attention

Source: Champion Newspaper, Nigeria
BY: Malachy Uzendu

Even as government is set to tackle dwindling medical facilities in the country, a consortium of Indian medical experts, Metro Hospital and Cancer Institute has offered to provide needed medical expertise to Nigerians in severe medical situation.
 
Chief Operating Officer of the body, Atul Gandotra while briefing medical doctors in Abuja explained that the group has world-class referral facilities in India where all forms of complicated ailments could be referred for treatment.
 
According to him, the Metro Group of hospitals headed by Dr. Pushottam Lal, has packaged excellent medical facilities in India and would avail any Nigerian, irrespective of status or class, the facilities at considerably cheap rates.
 
He told them that from their research findings, Nigerians suffer and die from all forms of treatable ailments, which if patients suffering from such ailments had availed themselves of the medical expertise and facilities at Metro hospital in India, several avoidable deaths would have been recorded.
 
Listing their areas of specialisation as pathology, microbiology, radiology, echocardiography, stress echocardiography treadmill test, vascular Doppler/plethysmography and headup tilt tests, among others, he added that pulmohology and gastroenterology examinations would easily be carried out in the hospital while incidental ailments would be completely treated.
 
On related heart diseases, Gandotra stated that the hospital has facilities for preventive cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, electrophysiology and other forms of heart complications.
 
“Metro hospital was established with the vision and philosophy to provide utmost level of health care to common man who are deprived of standardized and affordable health care.
 
“A group of NRI physicians under the leadership of Padma Vibhushan Dr. Purshottam Lal, a pioneer of interventional cardiology in India, started Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute in Noida, in June 1997, followed by various hospitals in NCR region, Meerut, Hardiwar and Gujarat”.
 
Explaining further, he told the medical experts that cancer and heart diseases are major killers worldwide, especially in India, but added that the state-of-the-art medical facilities provided by their hospital “has provided well equipped and advanced facilities to deal with various heart and cancer diseases by the faculty of highly renowed doctors of international repute”.
 
He added that to cope with the challenges, MCHI has a 155-bedded institute comprising of two tertiary care units, with support of allied services which focuses on prevention, early detection, comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation.
 
He insisted that once initial diagnosis and medical history of the most complicated heart or cancerous problems is made available to them, the hospital would stop at nothing until the patient is fully recovered.
 
“With the goal of combating cancer and cardiac diseases, various activities have been organised like preventive health check-ups with are extended to lower income groups, through regularly conducted health check-up camps at the door steps of the community.
 
“Regular continued medical education programmes keeps the medical fraternity updated with recent advances in the field of medical sciences and approved by the ethical committee as per national and international guidelines before implementation,” he stressed.
 
He called on Abuja residents to avail themselves of the opportunity of Metro medical facilities, stressing that other ancillary services abound in the hospital which he stressed, intends to open an office in Nigeria.

Now, India to churn out 4,452 more doctors

Source: The Times of INDIA
Date : 27 July 2011
By : Kounteya Sinha, TNN

NEW DELHI: India is all set to produce over 4,400 more doctors every year.

The Medical Council of India (MCI) has increased the number of seats for undergraduate medical education by 4,452 from this academic session (2011-12).

Around 2,650 seats have been increased due to the opening of new colleges. And, the rest of seats (1,802) came about after the strength of the existing colleges was increased.

India has around 335 medical colleges — 185 and 150 in private public sector, respectively — and will produce over 40,000 MBBS doctors every year.

Even though the requirement is much higher, experts say the increased number of seats is a positive step forward.

According to MCI\\'s governing body member Dr Purushottam Lal, the Council received 86 applications for permission to start medical colleges this year. Around 43 were disapproved on scrutiny, and 43 were inspected. Of those inspected, 22 weren\\'t cleared.

Of the 21 new colleges cleared, 16 and five are in the private and public sector, respectively.

The MCI received 104 applications from registered colleges for further increase of seats. Around 43 were disapproved on scrutiny, and 61 were inspected. Of those inspected, only 33 (18 and 15 in private and public sector, respectively) fulfilled the criteria, and were given permission to ramp up their strength.

"We\\'ve an additional 4,452 seats from this academic year itself for undergraduate medical education," Dr Lal added.

India faces a severe shortage of doctors.

Earlier, a planning commission study had said India is short of six lakh doctors, 10 lakh nurses and 2 lakh dental surgeons because of which it has a dismal patient-doctor ratio.

For every 10,000 Indians, there is one doctor. Another recent paper, "human resources for health in India", published in the British Medical Journal Lancet, said, there are eight healthcare workers, 3.8 allopathic doctors and 2.4 nurses per 10,000 population. When compared to other countries, this is about half the WHO benchmark of 25.4 workers per 10,000 people.

MCI\\'s own note on "curricular reform in undergraduate medical education", available with TOI, says, the current doctor population ratio in India is 1:1700 when compared to a world average of 1.5:1000. The committee came reached a consensus that targeted doctor population ratio should be 1:1000 by 2031.