Egmore hospital to get IVF facility soon
3 Docs Born In Hospital Honoured
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 26.07.2018
The 175-year-old Government Maternity Hospital in Egmore will soon offer comprehensive women healthcare facilities, including cancer screening, and offer high-end fertility treatment such as IVF, health minister C Vijayabaskar said on Wednesday.
The small hospital, built on the banks of the Cooum near Egmore Railway Station in 1844 for English women, moved to a building shaped like a woman’s pelvis on Pantheon Road. It is now known as Government Hospital for Women and Children.
The hospital has rehistered a rise in cases of infertility. “While some women who can afford treatment at private hospitals spend nearly ₹1 lakh for one attempt, many other couples can’t afford it. We have asked for high-end facilities, including equipment to bank eggs, sperms and oocytes,” said superintendent Dr Shanthi Gunasingh, also director, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, who was elated when the health department agreed to consider the hospital’s demands.
The hospital, which started a teaching centre with postgraduate and diploma courses in 1930 under Madras Medical College, counts renowned doctors among its alumni.
“I am proud to have studied here,” said senior oncologist Dr V Shanta, who heads the Cancer Institute in Adyar. “My role model, Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy, is also from here. I am happy now that her dreams are coming true,” she added, insisting on the need for states to intensify cancer screening. The hospital also honoured assistant professor of biochemistry Dr Chelladurai and assistant professors of obstetrics-gynaecology Dr Rekha and Dr Tirupurasundari, all of who were born in the hospital.
With nearly 25,000 deliveries, the hospital serves as a referral and tertiary care centre. “More than 60% of deliveries in the state are in government hospitals. Tamil Nadu has to kept out-of-pocket expenditure lowest in the government sector across the country,” said health secretary J Radhakrishnan.
In 2018, the state recorded a maternal mortality ratio of 62, the biggest drop since 2004-06, and retained its position at third lowest in the country.
TRAILBLAZER: Health minister C Vijayabaskar honours oncologist Dr V Shanta at Government Hospital for Women and Children
3 Docs Born In Hospital Honoured
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: 26.07.2018
The 175-year-old Government Maternity Hospital in Egmore will soon offer comprehensive women healthcare facilities, including cancer screening, and offer high-end fertility treatment such as IVF, health minister C Vijayabaskar said on Wednesday.
The small hospital, built on the banks of the Cooum near Egmore Railway Station in 1844 for English women, moved to a building shaped like a woman’s pelvis on Pantheon Road. It is now known as Government Hospital for Women and Children.
The hospital has rehistered a rise in cases of infertility. “While some women who can afford treatment at private hospitals spend nearly ₹1 lakh for one attempt, many other couples can’t afford it. We have asked for high-end facilities, including equipment to bank eggs, sperms and oocytes,” said superintendent Dr Shanthi Gunasingh, also director, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, who was elated when the health department agreed to consider the hospital’s demands.
The hospital, which started a teaching centre with postgraduate and diploma courses in 1930 under Madras Medical College, counts renowned doctors among its alumni.
“I am proud to have studied here,” said senior oncologist Dr V Shanta, who heads the Cancer Institute in Adyar. “My role model, Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy, is also from here. I am happy now that her dreams are coming true,” she added, insisting on the need for states to intensify cancer screening. The hospital also honoured assistant professor of biochemistry Dr Chelladurai and assistant professors of obstetrics-gynaecology Dr Rekha and Dr Tirupurasundari, all of who were born in the hospital.
With nearly 25,000 deliveries, the hospital serves as a referral and tertiary care centre. “More than 60% of deliveries in the state are in government hospitals. Tamil Nadu has to kept out-of-pocket expenditure lowest in the government sector across the country,” said health secretary J Radhakrishnan.
In 2018, the state recorded a maternal mortality ratio of 62, the biggest drop since 2004-06, and retained its position at third lowest in the country.
TRAILBLAZER: Health minister C Vijayabaskar honours oncologist Dr V Shanta at Government Hospital for Women and Children
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