TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, APRIL 10, 2021 “Last year, we were able to tackle the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic quite effectively. While the second wave has started spreading, let’s once again contain it with commitment, composure and constant communication,” urged Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) CEO Dipak Chattaraj, while chairing an online meeting of senior officers of the Steel Plant on ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 09, 2021             Highly experienced doctors at city-based Apollo Hospitals led by Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Dr. Susant Kumar Sethi, and Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon Dr. Debasis Nayak and ENT Surgeon Dr. Suryakant Pradhan successfully managed three patients by combining endoscopic and surgical modalities recently. The first patient had a perforation in his food pipe ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 9, 2021 Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. (Manipal Hospitals), one of India’s largest multi-speciality healthcare providers, on Friday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to divest its hospital business at Klang in Malaysia to healthcare provider Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care (RSDH). The transfer of ownership shall take place post completion of closure ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2021 Since March 2021, the daily cases of Covid-19 have been rising and have hit a 5-month high, with the maximum active cases reported from Maharashtra. One of the primary reasons behind the sudden spike is the complacency among the public about wearing masks and maintaining basic COVID protocols. To help control the increasing numbers ...

TBB BUREAU JODA, APRIL 1, 2021 With an objective to provide better medical facilities to the locals, Tata Steel dedicated an ambulance with advanced life support system to the people of Joda in a ceremony at Tata Steel Hospital, here today. Dr Sisir Kumari Patnaik, Gynecologist, Community Health Centre, Kamarjoda and Dr. Jagadish Sahu, Medical Officer, Community Health Centre, Kumarjoda ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 30, 2021            In a first in Odisha, the Nuclear Medicine team at the city-based Apollo Cancer Centres has successfully performed PET-guided biopsy recently. PET-guided biopsy is a unique modern technique of per-cutaneous biopsy procedure under PET-CT guidance. PET-guided biopsy is such a real time biopsy procedure which guides the interventional Nuclear Medicine physician to take ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, MARCH 30, 2021 Keeping in view the growing health care needs of the people and the lack of super speciality facilities in Sundergarh region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Rourkela on April 1, 2015, had promised the people of this region to set up a Super Specialty Hospital at Ispat General Hospital (IGH).  In ...

TBB BUREAU PARADIP, MARCH 30, 2021 As part of its CSR initiative, Paradip Port Trust (PPT), in association with Santha Arakshita Das Foundation & Olasuni Gumpha Development Trust, organised a mega health camp at Balipadia, Jajpur on Sunday. PPT Deputy Chairman AK Bose inaugurated the camp in which over 1,000 patients were treated and given free medicines. A team led ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 26, 2021 Scientists of the Centre for Nanosciences & Molecular Medicine at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham have launched a unique three-ply N96 nano mask based on cutting-edge nanotechnology. This cost effective mask offers far superior filtration and breathability than the conventional N95 and surgical masks, the scientists claimed. This long-lasting, skin-friendly, odor-free and reusable Amrita N96 Nano ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 23, 2021 The Union Government today allowed people above 45 years to get vaccinated against coronavirus from April 1. “It has been decided that from 1st April, the vaccine will open for everybody above 45 years of age. We request that all eligible should immediately register and get vaccinated,” said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar about the ...