Amid the outrage over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, is set to install a hi-tech panic button system in the women’s duty rooms, floors and blocks across the campus to ensure their safety. PGIMER, Chandigarh, has compiled inputs and demands from doctors, residents, nurses, research scholars …
PGIMER should start soft skill programmes for resident doctors, said PGIMER alumnus and noted gastroenterologist Dr D Nageshwar Reddy during inauguration of the new academic session at the premier institute on Monday. Chief guest Dr D Nageshwar Reddy and PGIMER, Chandigarh, director Dr Vivek Lal with the newly enrolled resident doctors after inauguration of the new academic session on Monday. …
With PGIMER and Panjab University refusing to allocate spare land for a pedestrian underpass between the two institutions, the UT department of urban planning has made amendments to the project’s design as per the current site conditions. Approved by former UT administrator VP Singh Badnore in November 2019, the project was proposed, as around 10,000 people cross the busy stretch …
The department of urology, PGIMER, has introduced robot-assisted kidney transplantation as a minimally invasive approach for kidney transplant recipients. Dr Uttam Mete, Dr Rajesh Ahlawat, Dr Sudeep Bodduluri and Dr Shanky Singh who are part of PGIMER’s robotic renal transplant team. Department head Dr Uttam K Mete said, “To minimise wound-related morbidity, renal transplantation using a small incision can be …
The Chandigarh-based Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research on Monday said that during the second COVID-19 wave, the Delta variant and Alpha variant were found to be present among 61% and 30% of the samples respectively, which were sent for whole genome sequencing to the National Centre for Diseases Control in New Delhi. “Thus, during the second wave …
