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KG Hospital doctors, RAF personnel donate blood:

On the direction of KG Hospital Chairman Dr.G.Bakthavathsalam, blood donation/awareness camps were organized this year within the hospital and on the Rapid Action Force (RAF) campus at Vellalore.
The RAF personnel, doctors and hospital employees voluntarily donated blood on the occasion. Dr. Viveka Priyadarshni, Transfusion Officer, KG Hospital, said that the blood donation/awareness camps were held in connection with World Blood Donor Day 2019. She further said that blood cannot be bought from the market or produced. KG Hospital Blood Bank has been designated as the Regional Blood Bank, acting as the major blood supplying point in the region.
It continues to supply free blood to as many as 51 Thalassemia children who require blood transfusion once in every 21 days, for their lifetime. A blood donor should be aged between 16 and 65 years, and at least of 50 kg weight and should be in good health.
The whole blood collected from a donor would be subjected to mandatory screening for HIV, sexually transmitted disease, Hepatitis B & C and so on. Every unit of whole blood could save 3 to 4 lives.
In appreciation of KG Hospital Blood Bank’s services, the Kovai Friends’ Blood Donation Movement has given a shield to it. The Movement’s president Mr V.Raja handed over the shield to Dr. Viveka Priyadarshni.

Clean hands ensure healthy life: KG Hospital observed World Hand Hygiene Day 2019.
Chairman Dr G.Bakthavathsalam said, Hand washing is the basic technique required in healthcare service. Keeping clean hands will avoid hospital acquired infection. Doctors must ensure that nurses do the hand washing properly and vice versa.

Surgeons must wash their hands properly after surgery and after touching medical equipment and in between seeing one patient and another. They must use the right sterilization solution for the purpose.
Dr T.Ramachandran, Consultant Senior Physician, in his speech said that in the US 2 million people get affected by nosocomial infection (hospital acquired infection) and of them 99,000 die every year. Dr Raksh*ta, Infection Control Officer, screened slide shows on how to keep hand hygiene. Many doctors and nurses benefited from the programme. In KG Hospital the Infection Control Committee is very active and the hospital gives utmost importance to hand hygiene. It has drastically reduced the incidence of nosocomial infection. Longevity, diabetes, HIV and cancer cause immuno suppression among the people.

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KG Hospital cures rarest of rare lung disorder:

A 29-year-old male patient with breathlessness was presented in KG Hospital recently. He had a complaint that even while walking for a short distance he was gasping for breath.
According to Dr K.Maheswaran, Pulmonologist of KG Hospital, a CT scan was done and the patient was checked for any possible pulmonary embolism.
On evaluation, pulmonary embolism was ruled out. The patient was suffering from a rare lung disorder called “pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (incidence one in 2 million people).”
Dr Maheswaran said that such a lung disorder caused by deposit of “surfactant surface active lipoprotein complex in the alveolai (air sacs in the lungs).”
When there is an excess formation of alveolar surfactants these would obstruct oxygen flow from the lungs to the blood.
This is caused either by hereditary factors or by contracting diseases. In this case, given the young age of the patient, it looks hereditary.
The patient was subjected to the clinical procedure (called Whole Lung Lavage for physically removing the proteinaceous material from the affected lung) in two sittings, with each session stretching to 4—6 hours.
This case is first of its kind in KG Hospital. The patient is now doing well.

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