Sudha Seshayyan is VC of Tamil Nadu MGR medical varsity

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PublishedDec 30, 2018, 1:49 am IST

She has been appointed for a period of three years beginning from the date of her assumption of office.

Governor Banwarilal Purohit appoints Dr Sudha Seshayyan as VC of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University on Saturday at Raj Bhavan. R. Rajagopal, additional chief secretary to Governor, also present. (Photo: DC)

Chennai: Governor of Tamil Nadu and chancellor of the Tamil Nadu MGR Medical University, Banwarilal Purohit appointed Dr Sudha Seshayyan as the vice-chancellor of the Tamil Nadu MGR Medical University, Chennai on Saturday. She has been appointed for a period of three years beginning from the date of her assumption of office.

An excellent Tamil orator and currently the vice-principal and director and professor of Institute of Anatomy at Madras Medical College, Dr Sudha has an outstanding academic record with a teaching experience of more than 30 years.

After pursuing undergraduation in public administration from Osmania University and hospital administration from Annamalai University, Dr Sudha turned a civil surgeon at 30.

Dr Sudha is currently a member of Medical Council of India, member of board of medical education at Annamalai University and also a member of board of postgraduate studies at Chettinad University.

She was the co-ordinator for the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University and has also been the registrar of the university from January 2009 to November 2011 and was presented with the best administrator award by the university.

Dr Sudha Seshayyan also served as the director and professor, Institute of Anatomy, Madurai Medical College, head of Department of Anatomy at Stanley Medical College and inspector to medical Institutions on behalf of Medical Council of India and various other universities.

Her academic excellence got her recognized as the international advisory member of 'Gray's Anatomy' and 'Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy'. She edited the Text Book of Anatomy, 'Brittanica Thagaval Kalanjiyam' (Tamil version of Brittanica Encyclopaedia) and a medical encyclopaedia titled "Maruthuva Kalanjiyam". She has also contributed endowment lectures and orations for various international conferences. Her write-ups on various spiritually oriented topics have been published in various Tamil magazines.

Dr Sudha has many awards to her name including the best performance award of appreciation by state health department, Kalaimamani award by the government of Tamil Nadu, Pravachana Chooodamani by Krishna Gana Sabha, Asthika Pravachana Rathna by Asthika Samaj and Sollin Selvar award by Government of Tamil Nadu to name a few.

Corporation office or corruption office, asks HC

LEGAL CORRESPONDENT

CHENNAI, DECEMBER 30, 2018 00:00 IST

Slams officials for encroachments, illegal construction

“Encroachments and illegal constructions are spreading like cancer and no doubt, they cannot take place without the collusion of Greater Chennai Corporation officials and staff,” the Madras High Court said and doubted whether it was a “corporation office or a corruption office.”

A Division Bench of Justices S. Vaidyanathan and Krishnan Ramasamy made the observations when an old case in which they had ordered demolition of the unauthorised portion of a residential building at Mannady, was listed again for reporting compliance.

‘Expedite hearing’

The Bench expressed dissatisfaction over official action despite several orders that were passed by the court to immediately disconnect electricity and water connections to unauthorised portions of the buildings pending inquiry and to demolish the illegal constructions after completing the inquiry.

Since most of the times the action was delayed by citing statutory appeals pending before the Housing and Urban Development secretary under Section 80 of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act of 1971, the judges directed the Housing secretary to expedite the hearing in all those appeals.

Suggesting that the government could appoint a team of honest officials to hear those appeals, the judges said that such officials should not be given any other administrative work and details of their properties should be uploaded on the government website and updated periodically.

On appeals related to buildings under the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), the Housing secretary should hear the appeals personally by devoting afternoon sessions on two days a week, including every Saturday, the Division Bench said.

These meetings should be organised in such a way that no litigant suffered on account of his absence. If he is absent, the cost of travel incurred by the litigant should be borne by the concerned authority, payable from his personal funds, the Bench ordered.

Suppressing facts

When Additional Advocate General P.H. Arvindh Pandian brought it to the notice of the Bench that some violators obtain stay orders from other judges of the High Court by suppressing factual information, the Division Bench said: “Courts shall not come to the rescue of violators.”

The Bench also reiterated its earlier direction to dismiss from service the corporation staff who failed to inspect unauthorised constructions in the city.

It said that those officials should also be denied their terminal benefits by recording their dereliction of duty in service registers.

New V-C for medical university

STAFF REPORTER

CHENNAI, DECEMBER 30, 2018 00:00 IST

Sudha Seshayyan

Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Saturday appointed Sudha Seshayyan as the Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University for a period of three years.

Dr. Seshayyan, presently the Director, Institute of Anatomy, Madras Medical College, takes over from S. Geethalakshmi.

A press release from the Raj Bhavan said she has over 30 years of teaching experience. Having functioned as a Registrar, Dr. Seshayyan is familiar with university administration. She has also served as vice-principal of Madras Medical College.

Dr. Seshayyan received the best administrator award from the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University and has served on the editorial review board for Gray’s Anatomy , the textbook, and continues to be a member of the International Advisory Board for reviewing the publication.

Dr Sudha Seshayyan new VC of MGR varsity

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:30.12.2018

Dr Sudha Seshayyan has been appointed vicechancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University by Governor Banwarilal Purohit who is chancellor of the university. She is expected to join duty on Monday and will serve for three years.

Dr Seshayyan, who is now director of the institute of anatomy and vice-principal of Madras Medical College, will succeed Dr S Geethalakshmi as the tenth VC and the third woman holding the post since its inception. “I am honoured to have been selected. It is a huge responsibility and I will work hard to ensure that I help the university grow from strength to strength,” she said.

A topper in her post-graduate medical education, Dr Seshayyan was among 41 senior aspirants. She was short listed by the search committee as one among the three candidates recommended for the post. On Saturday, a day after a 30-minute interview by Purohit, Dr Seshayyan was appointed . She has served the university as its registrar, has rich administrative experience and an outstanding background, according to a release from the Raj Bhavan.

She has served on the editorial review board of Gray’s Anatomy – considered the bible for anatomy in medical schools – and continues to serve the international advisory board for reviewing the publication.In December 2016, she was called by the government to embalm former chief minister J Jayalalaithaa’s body.

Dr Seshayyan will be the third woman to hold the position; She has served the university as its registrar, has rich administrative experience and an outstanding background

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Jayalalithaa Death

Apollo says Jaya death probe unable to understand medical terms, calls for experts
 
A petition by Apollo Hospitals to the Arumugasamy Commission says that the deposition documents of over 50 doctors are riddled with errors due to the inability of the probe panel to comprehend medical terminology. 

TNM Staff 
 
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 18:43
 
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Apollo Hospitals, where former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was admitted for medical treatment over two months until her death in December 2016, has critiqued the one-man probe panel constituted to enquire into her death, calling for the setting up a medical board.

In a petition submitted before the Arumugasamy Commission of Inquiry which is investigating the hospitalisation and subsequent death of Jayalalithaa, Apollo Hospitals has stated that the inability of the commission to comprehend medical terminology is proving fatal to “its understanding of the facts and circumstances surrounding the late Chief Minister's treatment.”

“It is submitted that doctors from [Apollo] hospital who have deposed before the Hon'ble Commission have found it a challenge to explain the complexity of medical scientific facts, protocol, procedures to the Hon'ble Commission, which does not have a medical professional assisting it during the proceedings. It is clear from the depositions recorded that there are several serious errors that have crept in because of the inability of the typist himself to comprehend and type the correct medical terminology. This is in spite of doctors trying to explain and spell out terms over and over again," states the petition.

Providing examples of these errors, the petition states that words such as 'intubation' and 'enterococcus' bacteria have been recorded as 'incubation' and 'endocarditis'.

The Hospital has asked the commission to set up a medical board “to examine facts and circumstances of the late Chief Minister's medical condition during her hospitalisation in [Apollo Hospital] and the appropriateness of the treatment that was provided to her by [Apollo Hospital].”

The one-man probe panel headed by (Retired) Justice Arumugasamy was set up by the Tamil Nadu government in September last year. It has received flak for the slow pace of its investigation, having sought three extensions already to submit its report.

Interestingly, the Apollo Hospital petition also points out that while the Arumugasamy Commission did try to include medical experts, little was done about it.

“In May 2018, the Hon'ble Commission Justice Arumughaswamy had sought the State Government's approval to the form a medical expert team to examine the treatment and medical documents relating to the late Chief Minister's treatment. The Hon'ble Commission intended to pick 4 medical experts of its own choice and to simplify the details of the medical treatment provided to the late Chief Minister. It is submitted that accordingly the State Government granted permission to the [Commission] to appoint doctors as requested on 01.05.2018,” the petition points out.

Despite receiving the go-ahead from the Tamil Nadu government in May 2018 to help understand close to 10,000 pages of medical documents provided by Apollo Hospital, the petition states that there are no doctors or medical professional till date to assist during medical proceedings.

The Hospital has also said that an analysis of the medical documents must be done by medical professionals with a "global perspective on treatment options, protocols, evolving medical care, state of the art technology, valuable experience and expertise."

Even as the probe panel’s report is now due on February 24, 2019, Apollo Hospital requested that the medical board consist of critical care specialists, cardiothoracic surgeon with experience in ECMOPR, interventionist specializing in ARDS, among other specialists.