Docs echo capital call; Girls told to acquire skills to do well; IIIT Nuzvid gets its own ambulance; Chess selections from March 8; TS Rao on child welfare board

kids lose script, mother tongue; YSRC steps up pressure on VMC over water cess; four specialists to boost GGH; Lepakshi handicrafts mela begins in city; Sarpanchs seek hike in honorarium

malnutrition root of ill health; dyschezia is curable; protesters leave for Delhi for final battle

Traders fear taxation; Pharma students told to invent drugs; Colleges told to implement RTI act; YSRC stops NH traffic

Power cuts hit industries; YSRC calls for Krishna bandh; Inter practicals go off peacefully; Free surgery for cleft palate; RTC staff to hold relay hunger strike; Police bust nee type of robber gang

cancer spread goes unchecked; 200 students to take part in Quran recitation event; compensation distributed to kin of Uttarakhand floods; cops seize 135 LPG cylinders; private bus staff continue strike

state indifference leaves patients sick; unpaid salaries add to the mess; a silver lining in sight; bifurcation to hit the poor; life to go on record soon

120 years old Vijayawada government general hospital awaits treatment; Good health is people's right; Experience to help students; Happy, RTC staff vow to fight

24,689 kids found with poor eyesight in Prakasam scholls

Tamilnadu governor Konijeti Rosaiah to launch centenary celebrations at Chirala & Avoid paddy crops to fight water scarcity & AISF 15th meet to be held at Kanigiri

Nine gamblers held at Parchur

Rally to uphold World Telugu Conference with Telugu attires

RIMS awaits medical council permission

                                                                RIMS awaits medical council permission

DC CORRESPONDENT

ONGOLE, MAY 3

The Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) officials went to New Delhi on Thursday to meet Medical Council of India towards getting permissions for M. B. B. S second year. As many as 100 students were admitted into RIMS medical college last year. Recently a team from MCI conducted inspections for two days at Ongole but denied further permissions for fresh admissions and starting of classes for second year. The medical counseling for fresh admissions was scheduled in November this year. As MCI did not give any permission till now on this issue, RIMS officials were in trouble over the fresh admissions.

The RIMS director, Dr B. Anjaiah went to Hyderabad on Wednesday and explained about MCI opinion to director of medical education, Dr K. Vishnuprasad. The duo went to New Delhi to meet MCI seeking permissions. S#peaking to this newspaper Dr Anjaiah said that they are going to invite MCI to inspect RIMS seeking permissions by explaining completion of necessary works in the college. He hoped for permissions from MCI with the cooperation of Ongole MP, Mr Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Ongole doctor disappears at Gundlapalli

                                  Ongole doctor disappears at Gundlapalli

DC CORRESPONDENT

ONGOLE, APRIL 22

The Maddipadu police received a complaint about missing of a famous doctor of Ongole on Sunday. According to Maddipadu sub-inspector, P. Bhaktavatsala Reddy, Dr  A. Srikanth Reddy was going to Guntur in his car. Dr Srikanth Reddy asked the driver to stop the vehicle and stepped out for attending a call on his mobile at Gundlapalli of Maddipadu mandal on NH-5 on April 11. Dr Srikanth Reddy went far from car while talking phone. Car driver, P. Anilkumar waited return of Srikanth Reddy for some time but the doctor did not returned. He searched on the national highway for his owner but could not trace him. Hence he returned and informed it to family members who searched for the doctor for the past ten days. As they failed to trace out Dr Srikanth Reddy, Anilkumar lodged a complaint and police started investigation.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Bachelor doctor serves poor

Bachelor doctor serves poor
M. Ilyas
ONGOLE, Aug. 11: At a time where MBBS doctors are reluctant to work in the rural areas, a government medical officer, Dr M. Venkaiah, working in the Ulavapadu primary health centre in Prakasam district is serving rural people for the last 20 years, while a bachelor.

Dr Venkaiah did his masters in surgery, introduced Buttonhole surgery in our state for the first time for tubectomy.

Sponsored by health and family welfare in 1997, Dr Venkaiah was trained in DPL surgery under the guidance Dr C.B.S. Sastry in Bombay general hospital.

Explaining the technique, Dr Venkaiah said that this was the only surgery that can be performed in two minutes and needed just a four-hour post operative care; this was invented by Dr Radhakrishna of Bengaluru. He said that this surgery was painless, created no scars and was without sutures.

He referred to rural women working in fields being happy with the new technique, as they can get on with their work in two-days after surgery. Stressing on the need for population control, Dr Venkaiah said that these surgeries helped to minimise population.

Referring to government spending Rs 10-15 lakh public money to produce a doctor, Dr Venkaiah said that it was strange that despite getting benefits, doctors were reluctant to serve rural populations. The thought of “giving back to society” drew him towards rural service, he added.

Referring to the Tamil Nadu government’s procedure of awarding a doctor’s degree only after completion of two year service in rural areas, he suggested this in our state.

Dr Venkaiah has performed 70,000 surgeries and trained 200 fellow doctors for Buttonhole surgeries; they have, in turn, completed nearly three lakh such operations, putting the state in the top position among southern states in family planning operations.

Dr Venkaiah received the best medical officer award 21 times from the union government. He created a record by performing 381 such surgeries in eight hours and was a guest faculty at Bangkok and Colombo universities.

The 43-year-old Dr Venkaiah is a bachelor and lives in Ulavapadu village. He said that he would soon start a trust to provide the latest medical treatment to rural populations and asked fellow doctors to come forward to serve the rural poor.
In 2009, he was recommended for Padma Sri award by then district collector, Mr K. Devanand, but he was not considered as his public service was little short of required 20 years.