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Hans India
3 days ago
- Health
- Hans India
Nitish Kumar lays foundation stone for Rs 264-crore Tibbi College Hospital in Patna
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday laid the foundation stone for a state-of-the-art Tibbi College Hospital building within the Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH) campus in Patna City. The ambitious project, estimated to cost around Rs 264 crore, will be developed over 10 acres of land behind the Nursing School and the State Pharmacy Institute. State Health Minister Mangal Pandey and Bihar Assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav were also present at the ceremony. Ahead of the event, Health Department Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh and Bihar Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation Limited (BMSICL) Managing Director Dharmendra Kumar visited the site to assess preparedness and issued key directives. The hospital will be equipped with a 200-bed Unani hospital across five storeys, an academic block for 150 students, an air-conditioned auditorium with 500 seating capacity, a residential complex for the principal, superintendent, doctors, and staff, and hostel facilities for candidates. The construction work will be completed by 2027, according to engineers from BMSICL. Senior NMCH officials, including Principal Prof. Usha Kumari, Superintendent Prof. Rishm Prasad, and Deputy Superintendent Saroj Kumar, were present during the inauguration. Currently, the Tibbi College Hospital operates from Kadamkuan. Its principal, Prof. Mahfoozur Rahman, expressed optimism that the new infrastructure will significantly enhance academic standards and healthcare delivery. On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for various projects worth Rs 48,500 crore during the Karakat rally. The projects included a thermal power plant in Navinagar in Aurangabad, Varanasi-Gaya-Kolkata six-lane expressway, Patna-Gaya-Dobhi four-lane national highway and Bihta airport and many others. PM Modi also spotlighted the growing focus on Bihar's Makhana industry after the Centre allotted it a GI tag and how lakhs of farmers are benefitting from it. He had inaugurated the newly constructed terminal building of Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport in Patna on Thursday.
Hans India
6 days ago
- Health
- Hans India
Covid-19 cases resurface in Patna with 6 new infections confirmed in last 24 hours
Patna: With fresh concerns over Covid-19 resurgence, six new Coronavirus infections have been confirmed in Bihar's capital Patna, including among healthcare workers at AIIMS-Patna. The latest spike has prompted hospitals across the state to go on high alert, with precautionary measures being swiftly reinstated. Among the newly-infected are a female doctor, a female nurse, and another employee of AIIMS-Patna, all currently undergoing treatment under the supervision of senior doctors. Two additional patients at Nalanda Medical College Hospital (NMCH) have tested positive, while another case involves a 42-year-old man from the RPS Mod area, whose test was conducted at a private lab in Raja Bazar. According to Civil Surgeon Dr. Avinash Kumar Singh, the city now has a total of nine active Covid-19 cases. Of these, three have been hospitalised, while the remaining six are in home isolation. In response to the spike, hospitals have started to gear up for a possible rise in cases. At IGIMS, Superintendent Dr. Manish Mandal confirmed that 12 oxygen-supported beds and 3 ICU beds have been reserved exclusively for Covid-19 patients. A Quick Response Team of doctors has also been deployed for immediate attention and care. Similarly, NMCH is preparing to launch a new 100-bed prefabricated Covid-19 ward, as informed by Superintendent Dr. Prof. Rashmi Prasad, to ensure timely treatment if infections continue to rise. Speaking on the matter, Health Minister Mangal Pandey reassured the public, stating that the new sub-variants of Covid-19 reported in India are not fatal, as per WHO guidelines. 'There is no need to panic. Testing and treatment systems are fully functional in state hospitals, and the Health Department is prepared to handle any emergency,' he told reporters. The Health Department has issued an advisory urging people to immediately get tested if they experience symptoms such as cold, cough, fever, or body aches, and to wear masks, especially in crowded public areas. Districts outside Patna have also been put on alert, with medical institutions instructed to increase vigilance and ensure readiness. As Bihar enters a potentially critical phase in the ongoing Covid-19 fight, authorities are urging civic responsibility and adherence to health guidelines to curb any further spread.
India Today
21-05-2025
- India Today
Why Bihar needs its very own Pied Piper
In Bihar, whenever anything goes wrong, rats seem to be, if not the culprit, at least the usual suspect. Be it the 2017 Bihar floods, the disappearance of nine lakh litres of alcohol the same year, or even dam damage, rats have strangely been cast as the culprit. More recently, rats were accused by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav of nibbling the toes of a disabled patient in a Patna this rate, Bihar may soon need its very own Pied Piper to lead the menacing rats 13th-century German legend might just have to take a flight from the comforts of his town, Hamelin, to Patna. He might have to repeat his century-old gig. Playing his magical flute, the piper lured all the rats out of the town and into the Weser the townspeople, according to legend, refused to pay him for his service, he returned and led their children story is often seen as a warning about broken promises, but in Bihar's case, it's the rat-catching part that seems NIBBLING A PATIENT'S TOES, RATS GNAWED A PATIENT'S EYE IN PATNA HOSPITALLeader of Opposition in the Bihar Assembly and RJD's Tejashwi Yadav claimed that rats nibbled the toes of a disabled patient at Patna's Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) while he was asleep. What Yadav cited wasn't an isolated November 2024, at the same NMCH, rats are said to have gnawed at and taken away an eye from a eye of Fantush Kumar, who had succumbed to bullet injuries, was found missing just hours after his death. Doctors attributed it to rats gnawing at the body."A group of doctors suspect that rats might have gnawed the eye. All aspects pertaining to the incident are being probed," an NMCH official told news agency NMCH is the second-largest state government-run hospital in Bihar's capital, next only to the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH).SALINE BOTTLES RUINED BY RATS IN BIHAR HOSPITALBack in 2020, hundreds of kilometres east of Patna, at Katihar Sadar Hospital, a bunch of rats was said to have drunk bottled saline water meant for patients. The saline bottles were intended to be supplied to primary healthcare centres across the district.'I have been told by the hospital employees that the saline bottles were damaged by rats. I immediately visited the storeroom where medicines and saline bottles were stored to be provided to patients. I found the bottles badly damaged and some of them not fit for use," the acting superintendent of Katihar Sadar Hospital, Dr Arvind Prasad Shah, told The Times of PROHIBITION FAILED TO STOP RATS FROM DRINKINGadvertisementIn Bihar, where prohibition exists but enforcement doesn't, it's only natural that the ban didn't apply to the rats. Bizarre as it may sound, a few police officers in 2017 told Patna SSP Manu Maharaj that rats had consumed around 9 lakh-litres of confiscated alcohol, both desi (country liquor) and angrezi (IMFL).The alcohol had been confiscated from across the state after Bihar went dry a year random breath analyser tests revealed several officers with elevated blood alcohol levels, confirming suspicions that the rats walked on two legs and wore BLAMED FOR 2017 FLOODS IN BIHARThe blame on rats doesn't stop there. During the 2017 floods, a perennial headache for Bihar, rats were once again fingered. And honestly, who else could it be?Then Bihar's Water Resources Minister, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, held rats responsible for the 2017 floods which submerged at least 20 districts of north Bihar."Rats are the main reason behind the seepage, especially in the Kamla Balan river embankment. Since the river is far away from the embankment, people living near the embankment store their grains on a machan (a raised, makeshift bamboo platform) on the embankment. This attracts rodents, which make holes in these embankments to access the grains, and this eventually causes seepage and floods," Singh was quoted as saying by The anyone claim to chase away rats from a place forever? Mosquitoes and rats have been a perennial problem... Even after fumigation the mosquitoes come back in a few hours," Bihar's Minister for Minor Irrigation and Disaster Management, Dinesh Chandra Yadav, the years, rats have become the unlikely scapegoats for a host of problems in it is a case of concern if rats are attacking patients in hospitals. Perhaps it's time that Bihar truly needs a Pied Piper to lead the rats away because the government seems helpless.
Time of India
18-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
100-bed medicine ward inaugurated at NMCH
1 2 3 Patna: Health minister Mangal Pandey and assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav on Saturday jointly inaugurated the new 100-bed medicine ward at the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) in Patna built with an expenditure of Rs 7.5 crore. Pandey said the tuberculosis demonstration training centre being constructed there will be ready by Aug this year. The Speaker said the health services in the state were improving day by day and there was no shortage of medicine and doctors in hospitals now. The health minister said the 100-bed medicine ward has been built on the upper floor to get rid of the waterlogging problem on the ground floor during the monsoon season. Earlier, there were 128 beds in the general medicine department. "Now, with the additional 100, the total number of beds will be 228. There is a plan to add 400 more beds in the future. There are a total of 1,189 beds in the NMCH now. There is now a provision of an oxygen pipeline on every bed," Pandey said. He said the food quality was also improved as the responsibility of food and cleanliness was given to the JEEViKa didis. The minister claimed that Bihar was on top in the supply of standard medicine for the last eight months continuously and now 496 types of medicines were available at the NMCH. "Before 2005, the condition of Bihar in the health sector was very pathetic. In the last 20 years, unprecedented work has been done in the health sector under the leadership of CM Nitish Kumar," he said. Pandey said the construction work of TVDC (Tuberculosis Training and Demonstration Centre) was going on at a fast pace at a cost of Rs 28.34 crore. It will be completed by Aug 15, he said. The construction work of TB Medical College at Kadamkuan in Patna was also starting at a cost of Rs 204.44 crore. Patna mayor Sita Sahu, NMCH principal Dr Usha Kumari, superintendent Dr Rashmi Prasad, along with others were present on the occasion.
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Health
- Time of India
High chances of PTSD among Pahalgam survivors, counselling helps to lead normal life: Docs
Patna: Many survivors of the horrific terrorist attack at Pahalgam on Tuesday, especially the family members who witnessed their near and dear ones being shot right in front of their eyes, have high chances of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that may take time to recover, felt city-based psychiatrists, adding the condition worsens if timely help is not sought from experts. Head of psychiatry department and de-addiction unit at NMCH, Dr Prof Santosh Kumar, said that PTSD was more likely to be observed in anxiety-prone people. "It is common after a major trauma. This is observed in soldiers, who see their colleagues being killed in front of their eyes, and there is possibility that family members of those killed in Pahalgam may also suffer from this illness," said Kumar, adding it usually takes around a month for the symptoms to appear in individuals. "The most common symptoms are 'numbing of emotions' like laughter or joy. People might also become 'avoidant' and may never revisit the place of occurrence or just stop going out on excursions or simply restrict themselves within the confines of their homes. The third most important symptom is 'arousal' and people get startled with even minimum noise," said Kumar, adding help of counsellors, psychiatrists and even psychologists may go a long way in getting over such traumatic experiences. Another city-based psychiatrist Dr Kundan Kumar Singh said the illness, in which individuals may also see flashbacks and nightmares related to the horrific incidents experienced, may persist for lifelong if timely help of experts is not taken. "The ailment may get treated in a few months, however, there is no fixed time that suits all. The duration of treatment depends upon severity of the cases, and from person to person," said Singh, adding they should never hesitate from taking help of psychiatrists. "They should undergo the prescribed sessions of counselling to lead a normal life post trauma or else there are chances of the ailment developing into a depression." by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo Psychiatrist Dr Pranay Priya said that patients were normally treated with various therapies, including psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy in normal circumstances. "But if the stress level reaches the highest reading of 90, patients may have to take medicines too to bring it down to the normal level of 30," said Priya.
