Sadhguru's brain surgery | ‘Despite severe headaches…’: What hospital said

Sadhguru's brain surgery | ‘Despite severe headaches…’: What hospital said

By HT News Desk

Mar 21, 2024 06:08 AM IST

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev had been suffering from severe headaches for last 4 weeks. Despite pain, he conducted a Maha Shivaratri event on March 8.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a renowned Spiritual leader, underwent an emergency brain surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi after suffering “life-threatening” bleeding in the skull and is now recovering well, a senior doctor said in a statement on Wednesday. The hospital said Sadhguru had been suffering from severe headaches for the last four weeks. Despite the severity of the pain, he continued with his normal daily schedule and social activities and even conducted a Maha Shivaratri function on March 8.

Spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev after an emergency brain surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi. (PTI)

On Wednesday, Sadhguru also posted a video on his Instagram account from his hospital bed. “The Apollo hospital neurosurgeons cut through my skull to try and find something but found nothing – totally empty. So they gave up and patched it up. Here I am in Delhi with the patched-up skull but no damaged brain,” Sadhguru said in a lighter vein.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he spoke to the spiritual leader and wished him a speedy recovery.

"Spoke to @SadhguruJV Ji and wished him good health and a speedy recovery," Modi said in a post on X (formally Twitter).

Responding to Modi's message, Sadhguru said he was “overwhelmed” by the prime minister's concern.

"Beloved Pradhan Mantri ji, I should not be a concern to you. You have a nation to conduct. Overwhelmed by your concern, on my way to recovery. Dhanyavad," Sadhguru wrote.

What did hospital say about Sadhguru?Sadhguru's headache got extremely severe by March 15 when he consulted Dr Vinit Suri, senior consultant neurologist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Delhi, about 3:45pm.

Dr Vinit Suri immediately suspected a sub-dural hematoma and advised an urgent MRI. Sadhguru underwent an MRI of the brain at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals at 4:30pm the same day, and it revealed massive bleeding in the brain.

There was evidence of a chronic bleed of 3-4 weeks duration along with another fresh bleeding of 24-48 hours duration. Sadhguru was advised immediate hospitalistion, but he had important meetings scheduled at 6pm on March 15 and the India Today Conclave on March 16.

According to Dr Suri, Sadhguru mentioned “I have never missed a single meeting in my last 40 years”, and despite severe and agonising symptoms, he completed the above meeting under the support of painkillers.

On March 17, Sadhguru developed a progressive decline in his level of consciousness along with weakness of his left leg with marked worsening of headache with recurrent vomitting, and was finally admitted to Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals under the care of Dr Vinit Suri.

According to Dr Suri on March 17, when Sadhguru finally agreed for admission, he mentioned “now is the time for you to perform the procedure”.

Sadhguru had a rapid worsening of his neurological status on March 17 and an urgent CT head revealed a marked increase in brain swelling and life- threatening shifting of the brain to one side.

Sadhguru was managed by a team of doctors comprising Dr Vinit Suri, Dr Pranav Kumar, Dr Sudheer Tyagi and Dr S Chatterjee and underwent an emergency brain surgery within a few hours of admission to remove the bleeding in the skull. Sadhguru was weaned off the ventilator post-surgery.
Sadhguru has shown steady progress and his brain, body and vital parameters have improved.

Chennai: Lack of access ails new hospitals at King Institute campus in Guindy

Chennai: Lack of access ails new hospitals at King Institute campus in Guindy

The lack of reliable direct or last-mile connectivity is particularly arduous for elderly patients.

The health department opened two hospitals on King Institute campus at Guindy, but no proper transport facility is available to reach them.(Photo | Martin Louis)

Sinduja Jane

Updated on:

12 Mar 2024, 9:27 am

CHENNAI: Lack of direct public transport services and last-mile connectivity to the newly-opened Kalaignar Centenary Super Specialty Hospital and National Centre for Ageing at the King Institute campus in Guindy is putting scores of patients, caregivers and hospital staff, including doctors, in hardship every day.

The lack of reliable direct or last-mile connectivity is particularly arduous for elderly patients. Health department officials said some particularly needy elderly patients, referred from the Geriatrics Department at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital to the National Centre for Ageing, are transported by hospital vehicle. Officials have also sought help from NGOs and volunteers to help transport patients.

For others, there are only two small buses (S 30 from Ashok Pillar to Saidapet market and S 35 from Ashok Nagar to Defence Colony) that directly stop outside the campus. D Varun, an attendant who had brought his grandmother to the orthopaedic out-patient unit at the super specialty hospital on Friday, pointed out that the services were limited and their timings not well known.

The alternative is to commute via the Guindy bus depot, 800m away.

"Many of us walk to the depot to board buses to different parts of the city," Varun said. After patients had complained about the gap in last-mile connectivity, a shuttle service was introduced between the campus and the Guindy bus depot. Although the service is meant to be available every five minutes, TNIE found the wait time could be as long as 20 minutes. Worse, the service is only available from 6.30am to 1.40 pm.

After that, visitors and staff must either shell out for an autorickshaw, cab or bike service or walk to the Guindy depot via the busy Alandur road, a source in the transport department said.

"We have to pay at least Rs 75 to the local autorickshaw drivers to get dropped at the depot. Many of the staff have collected the contact numbers of auto drivers nearby so we can call them once we finish work and they can pick us up," a doctor at the hospital said.

Asked about the limited transport facilities, Health Secretary, Gagandeep Singh Bedi said the matter would be taken up with the transport department to ensure convenience for the patients.

The 1,000-bed Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital was constructed at a cost of Rs 230 crore and inaugurated last year. The National Centre for Ageing was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually on February 25. The 200-bed facility with 40 intensive care units functions under the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

38 medicos suspended for making reels inside hospital in Karnataka

38 medicos suspended for making reels inside hospital in Karnataka

The video went viral and many people who watched videos said that the hospital is not a place for such things as hundreds of patients are under treatment there.

The final year medical students recently celebrated an annual day function and they have made a reel of Kannada and Hindi songs and uploaded the same on social media.(Representative image)

Raghottam Koppar

Updated on:

11 Feb 2024, 7:27 am

GADAG: The Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) has ordered temporary suspension of 38 final year medical students after their reels shot inside the hospital went viral on social media platforms. The final year medical students recently celebrated an annual day function and they have made a reel of Kannada and Hindi songs and uploaded the same on social media.

The video went viral and many people who watched videos said that the hospital is not a place for such things as hundreds of patients are under treatment there.

The videos of medical students dancing to Hindi song ‘Tu cheez hai mast mast’ and Kannada song ‘Ranadheera’ are viral on social media and netizens commented that the students disturbed hundreds of patients while making reels and the medical students could have done the same in other places. Several students wore stethoscopes and acted like doctors and some wore bandages to make the reels.

Tirunelveli MCH admin accused of leaving expectant, new mothers without food

Tirunelveli MCH admin accused of leaving expectant, new mothers without food

While speaking to pregnant women, currently admitted or recently discharged from TvMCH, several of them also alleged disparity in distribution of food in the wards.

Patients at the TvMCH alleged they raised complaints with the doctors regarding the improper supply of food in vain.

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12 Feb 2024, 9:29 am

TIRUNELVELI: A few of the expectant and new mothers, who are admitted to Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital (TvMCH), alleged that the hospital administration has not been providing them with proper food, thereby forcing them to spend huge sums (almost equalling the expense one might incur at a private hospital) on purchasing potentially unhygienic food from outside hotels.

While speaking to pregnant women, who are either currently admitted or were recently discharged from TvMCH, several of them also alleged disparity in distribution of food in the wards.

Speaking to TNIE, a new mother said, "Every day, a supplier would bring idli and sambar to the wards in the early hours. Later, around 11 am, he will bring milk, bread, eggs, and bananas, and around 1 pm, he distributes lunch, which includes rice, sambar and a limited amount of vegetable poriyal. However, not all expectant and new mothers, other than those who fight for it with the supplier, receive this food. For instance, I have not received food at the hospital for a single day, in spite of having spent several days here in three different wards, before and after my delivery."

Whereas, another new mother said that she had managed to get two idlis with sambar every morning, and a ladle of meal with sambar in the afternoon before her delivery.

"However, after my C-Section, I could not get food as I was unable to run towards the 'fast-moving' supplier, who always offered the food after scolding me briefly for no reason. Also, I have never got items like eggs, bread or banana, which are usually served to the housekeepers of the hospital, for my meal."

She further alleged that raising complaints with the duty doctors regarding the improper supply of food were in vain.

"My parents had brought me to TvMCH as we did not have enough money to approach a private hospital. Ironically, in TvMCH, my mother spends at least Rs 225 for food daily, as we are forced to buy it from outside hotels. On several days, I had to have only a vada and coffee for breakfast. Some other days, my mother even had to borrow money to purchase food," she rued, adding that the duty doctors never asked her if she was provided with nutritious food during the consultation period.

It may be noted that TvMCH has witnessed a total of 8,238 deliveries in 2021, 7,889 in 2022 and 6,401 in 2023 (till November), as stated in a RTI reply sought by A Veronica Mary, a health activist.

When contacted by TNIE, TvMCH dean Revathy Balan denied all the said allegations and claimed that the administration has been serving food properly to pregnant women and new mothers in the wards.

“Some parents may prefer home-made food like non-veg soup for their children, who are under treatment at our hospital. However, we serve food to all patients as per the menu fixed by the state government. We even take a sample to ensure if the food tastes good or not,” she said.

Meanwhile, an RTI reply given by TvMCH administration to M Sugan Christoper of Melaputhaneri, stated that the hospital has spent Rs 1.87 crore in 2018-19, Rs 1.4 crore in 2019-20, Rs 1.66 crore in 2020-21 and Rs 1.58 crore in 2021-22 (till September) to supply food to all the in-patients under treatment.

"Idli and sambar in the morning, milk, egg, bread, banana and orange at 9 am, meal (rice, sambar, buttermilk, keerai, cabbage and poriyal) in the afternoon, milk and sundal at 4 pm, and rava kichadi and bottlegourd poriyal in the night, were supplied to in-patients as on September 13, 2022," the RTI reply from the Public Information Officer of TvMCH read.

Lalu Yadav gets daughter’s kidney: What the organ donor & recipient need to do after a transplant

Lalu Yadav gets daughter’s kidney: What the organ donor & recipient need to do after a transplant

A kidney transplant immensely improves the quality of life of people with chronic kidney disease who are under dialysis, says Dr HS Mohapatra, professor of nephrology at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital

Written by Anonna Dutt

New Delhi | Updated: December 5, 2022 3:58:41 pm

 

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad Yadav with his daughter Rohini Acharya (PTI)

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Bihar Chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has undergone a kidney transplant in Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth hospital, with his daughter Rohini Acharya donating the organ. As per updates from the family, the surgery was successful. “Father is in the ICU, he is conscious and is able to talk,” said his daughter Misa Bharti on Twitter. This has shed the spotlight on kidney donors and recipients and their well-being after the surgery. Dr HS Mohapatra, professor of nephrology at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, talks about the precautions that need to be taken by both after the surgery.

WHAT DONORS NEED TO DO?

With almost all medical centres now moving to laproscopic kidney donation – which is minimally invasive and leaves behind only three tiny scars on the abdomen – a donor can leave the hospital within two to three days of the surgery.

Dr Mohapatra says that a donor can live a completely normal life with one kidney. “Donors can start doing all their normal everyday work as soon as ten days after the surgery. It is uneventful for a majority of donors. However since it is a surgery there is a small percentage – less than one per cent – who might face complications and death. It is the same as the risk with, say, a simple gallbladder surgery.”

To keep a check on their condition, however, it is suggested that “donors get their blood pressure and urine creatinine level tested every six months,” he added.

PROTOCOL FOR RECIPIENTS

With kidney recipients already being ill before the surgery and vulnerable to infections due to the immunosuppressants prescribed, they have to take more precautions. Mid-term, they may face the threat of rejection and in the long term, they may develop cancers. “Although the doses of immunosuppressants are reduced over time, they have to be taken life-long. The long term consequence of that is it may allow the unchecked growth of certain cells leading to cancers. “Transplant patients are at a higher risk of lymphoma and other cancers. But they happen after years and years of taking the medicines and are treatable,” said Dr Mohapatra. There is also a loss of libido. “Whereas patients who have undergone transplants can eat almost anything – of course burgers and pizzas are not advisable – they have to ensure that it is clean. Sexual activity is not a problem, and women who have undergone kidney transplant can also give birth,” said he.

As for survival after the transplants surgery, although no concrete data exists from all centres across the country, Dr Mohapatra added that an estimated 90 per cent survive past the one-year mark, 70 to 80 per cent past the five-year mark, and 50 to 60 per cent past the ten year mark.

He said, “In the short term, infections are the worry. Those who have undergone transplant are at a risk of bacterial infections up to three months after the surgery, and viral and fungal infections after that. That is why it is crucial that they maintain personal hygiene, drink very clean water, and eat hygienic foods during this period. The rate of infection may vary from hospital to hospital – at my centre we see around 30 to 40 per cent of patients coming in with infections but all of them get better after treatment.” Although transplant patients always remain at a slightly higher risk of infections, the risk goes down in later years with doses of their immunosuppressant medicines being tapered.

To keep an eye for any complications, transplant patients need to visit their doctor weekly for the first month, fortnightly for the next two months, monthly for the next three or four months, and every three months life-long. “They should also reach out to their doctors if they have any symptoms of an infection, difficulty breathing and so on. Barring the preventative check-ups, the patient leads a 100 per cent normal life,” said Dr Mohapatra.

HOW A TRANSPLANT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE

“A kidney transplant immensely improves the quality of life of people with chronic kidney disease who are under dialysis,” he said. Patients on dialysis (an out-patient procedure where the machine takes over the function of filtering waste instead of the kidneys) have to follow a strict treatment schedule in order to avoid build-up of waste in the body. They might face fluctuations in blood pressure, electrolyte imbalance, fluid accumulation and later problems finding an access site for the port from where the blood is taken out and sent in.

Not to mention the long-term repeated costs for the dialysis treatment – one dialysis session might cost anywhere between Rs 2,500 to 4,000 with patients needing it two to three times a week, whereas kidney transplants may cost between 5 and 10 lakh

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Interns on strike to increase stipend from Rs100 per day at Lata Mangeshkar Hosp

Interns on strike to increase stipend from Rs100 per day at Lata Mangeshkar Hosp

Aug 24, 2022, 04.56 AM IST

Nagpur: Over 140 intern doctors, who have completed MBBS and now work in full-time patient care at the city’s Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur (LMH) and NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, are getting Rs100 per day as stipend. Moreover, this stipend has also not been paid to them for at least two months. Irked by the negligence of college management, the intern doctors resorted to a strike from Monday.

“All we want is a respectable stipend,” said Ashutosh Ade, who leads the interns in this medical college. “We are not shouting slogans, nor creating obstacles in patient care. We just have withdrawn our services and staging a totally peaceful sit-in dharna,” he added.

Interns feel insulted that they get Rs3,000 per month as a stipend even after completing MBBS degree. “Even daily wage workers and unskilled labourer get more than this,” said Ade, adding that they have followed every necessary step of sending letters, reminders, and ultimatums to management.

“The dean and management are asking us to end the strike and discuss the issue. We want written assurance that our stipends will be revised,” said Sayali Chaudhari, an intern.

TOI spoke to dean Dr Kajal Mitra, who is on sick leave. He said the management committees decide stipends in private medical colleges. The striking interns told TOI that Dr Ashish Deshmukh, treasurer of LMH trust, visited them on Tuesday and appealed to them to withdraw the strike. But interns want some written assurance.

Internship of 12 months is compulsory after completion of MBBS from any medical college. Internship refers to a training program in which an MBBS graduate is able to learn methods and modalities to administer actual practice of medical and health care. However, the salary of an MBBS internship varies from college to college or hospital to hospital. In Maharashtra, GMC interns get Rs11,000 monthly stipend, in AIIMS they get Rs23,500. In private medical colleges, interns at PDMC in Amravati get Rs7,000 per month.

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4 TN hosps face action for illegal harvesting of eggs from minor

4 TN hosps face action for illegal  harvesting of eggs from minor

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Chennai : 15.07.2022

The Chennai health department has initiated legal action — including closure — on four private hospitals involved in the illegal harvesting of eggs from a minor girl, minister Ma Subramanian said on Thursday. Sudha Hospitals’ branches in Erode and Salem, Ram Prasad Hospital in Perundurai, and Vijay Srishti Fertility Centre in Hosur have been directed to discharge all patients within 15 days, after which measures would be initiated to shut them down.

“The scan centres will be closed with immediate effect. Two of these hospitals, which are empanelled under the state health insurance scheme, will be removed from the list,” said Subramanian, adding that the harvesting was done in violation of laws, ethics, and ICMR guidelines. Joint directors have been asked to file cases against these hospitals in court for violations under Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act besides ICMR guidelines. Complaints will be lodged with the state medical council against doctors in these hospitals. In June, the state received a report that a minor girl was forced to donate her eggs to hospitals for commercial reason

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