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17 year Old successfully treated with advanced stage Varicose Veins

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Mumbai-A 17-Year-Old College Student with Advanced Stage Varicose Veins Successfully Treated at Wockhardt Hospital, Mira Road

“Around 100 cases of very young age in the age group 18-25 have been treated for varicose veins, since last few years.” says Dr. Himanshu Shah, Chief Senior Varicose Vein Consultant, Wockhardt Hospital.

Varicose veins are commonly seen even in younger patients. A team headed by Dr. Himanshu Shah has successfully treated a 17-year-old college boy with Advanced Stage Varicose Veins by performing minimally invasive laser surgery.

Varshil Shah is a college student from Santacruz was jolted out of his normal life due to leg pain, fatigue, and leg cramps for two consecutive months. This made difficult for him to attend his online classes as sitting or standing for long hours wasn’t possible. Moreover, he was also unable to do his real-world activities with ease. The patient and his family members were worried and constantly looked for solutions. However, the patient approached Wockhardt Hospital, Mira Road wherein he could stand on his feet again.

“On arrival, a simple Color Doppler ultrasound test confirmed that the patient suffered from advance stage varicose veins both legs. Varicose veins can be described as painful, swollen, twisted, and bulging veins that are blue and dark purple in Color under the skin.  The causes in children can be hereditary, doing activities jumping or running and obesity. It is a commonly occurring problem in children and I have successfully treated around 100 cases of very young age in the age group 18-25, since last few years. This patient required minimally invasive laser surgery as early as possible for the Varicose veins.” said Dr. Himanshu Shah, Chief Senior Varicose Vein Consultant, Wockhardt Hospital

“In this patient’s case, there were many additional (varicose) veins parallel to the normal structure of veins. This involves applying heat from a laser to fade away the appearance of varicose veins. This procedure tends to shrink and close the varicose veins to allow the blood to easily flow to the other veins that are present nearby. The leakage of the veins has to be treated by laser surgery.  After successfully performing the surgery for one-and-half hours and the patient was shifted to the normal ward. And was discharged the next day.”Dr. Himanshu Shah added

The patient is recommended to take precautions like exercising every day to prevent the appearance of new varicose veins. Walking will ensure sufficient blood supply to the legs and prevent varicose veins. Maintaining an optimum weight, avoiding standing or sitting for a longer time, wearing compression stalking, and a controlled diet for overweight will prevent varicose veins.

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Vaccination to open on All Days of April

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Vaccination will be open on all days of April month at all public and private covid vaccination centres including gazette holidays, the centre wrote to all States and UTs and asked them to make necessary arrangements.

This step has been taken after detailed deliberations with the States/UTs on 31st March, 2021 to optimally utilize all COVID Vaccination Centres across the public and private sectors to ensure rapid increase in the pace and coverage of COVID vaccination. This decision is in line with the graded and pro-active approach employed by the Government of India along with the States/UTs for COVID-19 vaccination.

The Vaccination exercise as a tool to protect the most vulnerable population groups in the country from COVID-19 continues to be regularly reviewed and monitored at the highest level.

The Government had already decided to start COVID19 vaccination of all people above 45 years of age from 1st April, 2021 based on the recommendation of National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration (NEGVAC).

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6.5 crore shots given as on Day 75 of vaccine drive

by Medically Speaking Team
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Government of India has commenced the next phase of vaccination for citizens above 45 years of age today. More than 6.5 crore (6,51,17,896) vaccine doses have been administered through 10,86,241 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today.

As on Day-75 of the vaccination drive (31st March, 2021), 20,63,543 vaccine doses were given. Out of which, 17,94,166 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 39,484 sessions for 1st dose and 2,69,377 beneficiaries received 2nd dose of vaccine.

Know How To Get Vaccinated Through Co-Win Portal.

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72,330 cases registered in the last 24 hours, 8 states show high rise

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Eight states have shown a steep rise in the number of Covid cases in the last 24 hours. A cumulative of 84.61% of 72,330 new cases registered in the last 24 hours are from the state of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. (PIB)

India’s total Active Caseload has reached 5,84,055. It now comprises 4.78% of the country’s total Positive Cases. A net incline of 31,489 cases recorded from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours.

Five states, namely Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Punjab cumulatively account for 78.9% of the total active cases in the country. Maharashtra alone accounts for more than 61% of the active caseload of the country.

459 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.

Six States account for 83.01% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties (227). Punjab follows with 55 daily deaths.

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Union Health Secretary urges states, UTs to implement test, track, treat, vaccinate

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Union Health Minister Rajesh Bhushan urged the officials of states and UTs to ensure timely utilization of available stocks of the Covid-19 vaccine and maintain vaccine wastage less than one per cent.

The minister along with the NITI Aayog members held a high-level meeting through video conferencing with Health Secretaries, State Mission Directors of National Health Mission (NHM) and State Immunization officers of all states and UTs to review the status, pace and issues regarding COVID vaccination across the country as well as the preparations from April 1 when vaccination would be extended to all persons above the age of 45.

Bhushan also advised the states and UTs to implement the ‘Test, Track, Treat, Vaccinate’ strategy efficiently.

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Vacancy: 51 applications invited for the post of District Consultant

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The National Health Mission has released 51 vacancies for the post of District consultant in a contract basis last date of application for which will be 15 April, 2021.

Following are the details for the post:

Name of OrganizationNational Health Mission Madhya Pradesh
No. of Vacancies51
Name of PostDistrict Consultant
Pay ScaleRs. 30,000 per month
Mode of ApplicationOnline
EligibilityBDS/BAMS/B.Sc and MPH/PG Diploma in health management
Age Limit21-40 years-of-age
Last Date of Application15 April, 2021
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Covid testing to increase by 80,000 in Delhi

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Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain announced that Covid-19 testing will be increased to 80,000 per day in the national capital, reports ANI.

He said, “From today, we’re going to increase testing to over 80,000 tests daily. Yesterday, government issued an order for increasing 220 beds in ICU wards in private hospitals for COVID patients. There is just 25% occupancy in private & govt hospitals in Delhi.”

The national capital has been witnessing a surge in Covid-19 infections in the past few days, reporting 992 new infections on Tuesday.

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Union Health Secretary Reviews COVID Vaccination Drive

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The Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan and Dr R S Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority (NHA) and Chairperson, Empowered Group on COVID Vaccination has done a high-level meeting through video conference today with Health Secretaries, State Mission Directors of NHM and State Immunization officers of all States and UTs to review the status, pace and issues regarding COVID vaccination across the country as well as the preparations for April 2021 when vaccination  would be extended to all persons above the age of 45.

The following was advised to the States and UTs regarding the vaccination coverage of Health Care Workers (HCW)s & Front Line Workers (FLW)s:

  1. Ensure that only eligible beneficiaries are registered and vaccinated under category of HCW and FLW.
  2. Archive incorrect/duplicate entries on CoWIN platform.
  3. Identify pockets of low vaccination coverage – health facility/professional association/blocks, districts etc., for taking corrective action.
  4. Saturation of vaccination of these groups on priority.

The meeting was also Regarding the involvement of Private COVID Vaccination Centres (CVC)s, the States/UTs were asked to:

  1. Conduct regular reviews of vaccinations at Private CVCs with respect to their capacity utilization.
  2. Undertake GIS analysis of CVCs to identify need for additional CVCs within States/UTs.
  3. Address apprehensions of Private CVCs regarding vaccine supply, guidelines etc proactively.

Considering the vaccine stocks as important part of meeting the States and UTs were advised to ensure that:

  1. There is no sedimentation of vaccine stocks at any level of storage.
  1. Distribution based on consumption to avoid overstocking as well as under-stocking at Cold Chain Points and CVCs.
  2. Regular review of vaccine stocks and consumption is undertaken to identify gap areas and address the same.

The Centre also advised the States and UTs for the following:

  1. Maintain vaccine wastage at less than 1% (present National Wastage Percentage being 6%).
  1. Regularly review vaccine wastage across all levels to minimize the same.
  2. Ensure timely utilization of available stocks to avoid expiry of vaccines without usage.
  3. Timely updating of data of vaccine consumption to be ensured on CoWIN & eVIN portals.

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64 million doses delivered to more than 84 nations: Dr Harsh Vardhan

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More than 61 million vaccine doses have been administered in our country and 64 million doses have been given to 84 countries, said Dr Harsh Vardhan while addressing the World Immunisation and Logistics Summit on Tuesday.

He stated that development of vaccine was actively and proactively supported by the government; the expert group for vaccine NEGVAC was formed 6 months before their launch which planned each detail of the vaccine, its manufacturing, logistics and administration. Half a dozen of vaccines are under clinical trial and around one dozen vaccines are in pre-clinical trial which are being monitored by the body.

Recollecting the biggest challenges faced by him in terms of rolling out the vaccination programme, the Minister said, “India itself with a huge population of 1.35 billion and huge diversity is a big challenge. We took this challenge head on under the leadership of our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. On 17th of January last year, we had issued an advisory regarding COVID long before it snowballed into the crisis it is today. We also developed capacities for testing, ventilators, tracking, surveillance, quarantine centre and emphasized that COVID Appropriate Behaviour is the most potent vaccine against COVID.” After the launch of the vaccines, we prioritized our health care workers, front line workers, the general population aged 45 and above with co-morbidities and those above 60 years of age; and now all those above 45 years. We also planned the opening of 50,000 centres across the country and trained 7 lakh vaccinators for the exercise, he added.

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