Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Amrita HIS unveiled at BARC

16 January 2008 — Mumbai
Amrita University has unveiled a version of its state-of-the-art Amrita Healthcare Informatics Suite Software (Amrita HIS) crafted specifically for BARC (Babha Atomic Research Centre) Hospital in Mumbai.
AMRITA HIS manages all the patient details right from patient registration, admission to discharge.
“It is one integrated, seamless solution conforming to latest healthcare protocols, built […]

Posted on Jan 18th, 2008 • Category: Education, Health


Babies on the Way

Two More “Tsunami Babies” on the Way
13 January 2007 — Amritapuri
Another one of the tsunami victims who underwent fallopian-tubal-ligation reversal is pregnant with twins. Sarita, 30, came to Amritapuri for Amma’s darshan this morning and informed Amma of her condition. She has just completed her first trimester. Sarita will be the fifth such woman to […]

Posted on Jan 13th, 2008 • Category: Health, Tsunami


A Miracle in Surgery

9 January 2007 - Amritapuri
On August 18, 2007, a group of children from a remote tribal village near Janakpuri in Chattisgarh went to graze the village goats in a field in the forest. It was there that three bears-a mother and two cubs-came upon them. All the children ran, but one 12-year-old girl named Kusumavati […]

Posted on Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Health


Wayanad Camp

November, Wayanad, Kerala
The Amrita Kripa Charible Hospital Kalpetta held its monthly (November) Tele-medicine camp. Through the mobile Tele-medicine van advance diagnostic tools are available for the tribals of this area. About three hundred and fifty patients were seen over the two days and approximately seventy patients received the necessary advance laboratory and x-ray services […]

Posted on Dec 2nd, 2007 • Category: Health


Tele-medicine Kalpetta camp

9 - 10 Sep 2007, Kalpetta, Wayanad
Satellite Tele-medicine Camp was held on Sunday the 9th and Monday the 10th of September at the Amrita Kripa Charitable hospital. Over four hundred patients were seen in the two-day period. This camp’s specialty was general medicine.
This is the twentieth visit the Tele-medicine unit has made to […]

Posted on Sep 13th, 2007 • Category: Health


Health Card

Ernakulam, 28 April 2007
The Amrita Health Card, a scheme instituted by the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), to give free health care facilities to the rural poor, was launched today.
Under the scheme, poor families around AIMS would be extended free medical aid up to Rs 10,000 per family per year.

Posted on Apr 29th, 2007 • Category: Health