Deepak Hospital has been serving the people of the state in
various departments; it has now recently added another department to its kitty,
which will help the increasing psychological problems in the society. The
addition of Psychiatry department will make it easy for the people of the city.
There are a number of psychological issues being faced by the youth
of today, and with increasing awareness about the same, this problem can be taken
care of in a better way.
Dr. Randhir Singh Deswal who is a former professor and was
the head of psychiatry department at Christian Medical College and Hospital,
has joined this newly launched Psychiatry Department at Deepak Hospital. After
being introduced to his teammates and the management by the Senior
Ophthalmologist, Dr. SK Chopra, Dr. Deswal also discussed about the prevalence
of psychiatry disorders in the society.
On the other hand, the annual research and health symposium,
CARES-2016 was organized in the city at Christian Medical College and Hospital.
Students, nurses, doctors, faculty members and more from all the five colleges
presented around 90 research papers at the symposium, which brought in healthy
discussions relating to a lot of issues in today’s society.
The CMCH is associated with its research legacy since the
year 1964, and Dr Abraham G Thomas, who is the Director of CMCH, spoke about
the same to the audience. He also talked about the importance of clinical
research in the advancement of medical and surgical treatments. The chief guest
of the occasion was the professor and head of neurology department of AIIMS,
New Delhi, Padmashree Dr Kameshwar Prasad.
While addressing the audience, he stressed on inclusion of
clinical research methodology in the curriculum for students from various
departments like, medical, dental, nursing and physiotherapy. He said that
medical colleges played a great role in the clinical and molecular research.
At the symposium, 10 best research papers were selected from
those presented by participants coming from different medical colleges of
Punjab. Out of these, the top three were selected by the 25 judges, which were
then awarded. Along with this, prizes were also distributed on the basis of
individual categories and departments.
Post the symposium; the CMCH has also planned a continuing
medical education, which was organized by the department of clinical
haematology and bone marrow transplantation with transfusion medicine and
haematopathology.
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