I-Play I-learn, a pre-school in Salem has organised child nutrition assessment programme in Salem on 18th Sep 2011. Parents can make use of this event by getting all their concerns addressed. Below is the invitation for this event.
New facility: The Mobile Animal Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory, which was flagged off in Salem on Monday. — Photo: P. Goutham To ensure healthy livestock in rural pockets and to record its health profiling, eight Mobile Animal Diseases Diagnostic Laboratories under the National Agriculture Development Project, have been sanctioned for Tamil Nadu. The one for Salem [...]
Dewan S. Alam, Head, Health System and Infectious Diseases Division, Bangladesh (second left) releasing the souvenir to mark the International Conference on Food and Nutraceuticals for Nutrition and Health held at Periyar University in Salem on Thursday. Ravinder Singh (left) of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi received the first copy. – Photo: P. [...]
Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam (left) and Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare S. Gandhiselvan (second left) at the cardio thoracic theatre of newly-inaugurated Sri Gokulam Speciality Hospital in Salem on Wednesday. — Photo: P. Goutham Providing quality healthcare to poor and needy is the social responsibility of doctors, said Agriculture Minister [...]
The Salem-based corporate healthcare unit Sri Gokulam Hospital will open a new speciality hospital with stress on cardio care. Its Managing Director Dr K Arthanari told reporters here on Monday that the new 180-bedded Sri Gokulam Speciality Hospital would have advanced equipment. Neurology He said that advanced medi care in cardiology would be given to [...]
Free swine flu vaccine for below poverty line (BPL) families was introduced at the Salem Government Medical College Hospital here on Saturday. Collector J. Chandrakumar who inaugurated the free vaccination, said that the government had sanctioned as many as 40,000 doses under Phase I of the vaccination programme that was being undertaken. He said that [...]
For good health: Salem Periyar University in association with Youth Red Cross and Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, conducted an awareness programme on ‘HIV AIDS – Safe Motherhood’ in Salem on Thursday. – SALEM: “HIV prevention and care are essential for safe motherhood and maternity services could play a crucial role in improving [...]
Intensive studies are going on regarding organisms which can survive and tolerate radiation and other hazards like those experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said G. Ilavazhagan, Director, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence. Inaugurating a two-day National-level seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Microbial Technology with [...]
SALEM: NSS Wing of Sona College of Technology, in association with SKS Hospital, conducted a medical camp at Pottipuram and Kamalapuram villages last week. A team of NSS volunteers from third year organised the camp with the assistance of three doctors and 14 technicians from SKS Hospital. Nearly 450 people were screened. Free medicines were provided. [...]
Collector J. Chandrakumar has said that steps would be taken to distribute tablets to private hospitals, which would treat patients with symptoms of swine flu. At a health awareness review meeting held here on Friday, the Collector asked the health officials to create awareness among the public about various diseases that spread during rainy season. [...]