TBB BUREAU ANGUL, JUNE 15, 2022 JSPL Foundation, the CSR arm of Jindal Steel and Power (JSP), on Wednesday observed the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2022 in different plant periphery villages and at a few Senior Citizen Homes of Angul district. To mark the day, several awareness sessions were organised to educate the participants regarding the scenario where ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 11, 2022 With the objective of ensuring better and more meaningful lives for locals, the   Aditya Birla Group flagship company Hindalco at Sambalpur, has taken a number of healthcare initiatives as part of its community engagement. In the year 2021, around 14,000 people in 12 villages of Hirakud benefited through these initiatives. Under the company’s “Health ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, JUNE 9, 2022 Brain tumors can happen in any age group, but not all cases are cancerous and timely detection and treatment can help in early cure and return to normal life, eminent neurosurgeon at KIMS Bhubaneswar Dr. Narendra Kumar Das has said. Dr Das, credited with hundreds of surgeries on brain tumors, said brain tumors could ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JUNE 4, 2022 Come June 5 – World Environment Day – States/Union Territories and Urban Local Bodies across the country will swing into campaign mode, in a bid to make the country free of single use plastic (SUP), as well as contribute to improving the environment, under the overarching mandate of “Clean and Green”. This comes ...

TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, JUNE 2, 2022 Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh Unit, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, organized awareness programs on World Menstrual Hygiene Day with women and girls hailing from local communities in Kalahandi district. The objective of these sessions was to build community awareness on period poverty, communicate the importance of managing health and hygiene during menstruation, prevent ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, MAY 30, 2022 As tobacco companies menacingly lure youth and children to their products through advertisements and entertainment ploys, Health experts and celebrities have urged the government to put an immediate ban on advertisement of tobacco products. On the eve of World No Tobacco Day, they also asked the Centre to ensure that tobacco control law ...

TBB BUREAU RANCHI, MAY 29, 2022 In its endeavour to promote homemade food with family fun, Swayamsiddha Ladies Club of NTPC Coal Mining Headquarters, Ranchi, in association with the Employees Welfare Association of the Unit, organised a food festival themed on “Go Green to Save Mother Earth” at MECON Community Hall, here on Friday. The foodfest was inaugurated by Shyamli ...

TBB BUREAU KOCHI, MAY 27, 2022 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has got a landmark approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) for conducting pilot clinical trial for a novel bone graft developed jointly by Amrita School of Nanosciences, Amrita School of Medicine and Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi. The project was funded by the Dept. of Sciences and Technology, ...

TBB BUREAU HYDERABAD, MAY 27, 2022 Thousands of people from all walks of life joined the Yoga Utsav at Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium here today to mark the 25 days’ countdown to International Day of Yoga (IDY2022). The event was aimed at creating awareness about the various dimensions of Yoga and its ability to enrich human lives. The event was ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 27, 2022 In a bid to provide comprehensive care for the patients with cancer and haematological disorders, the Department of Medical Oncology/Haematology at AIIMS Bhubaneswar has started a dedicated 7 bedded intensive care unit (ICU) for the patients. The facility has been inaugurated by AIIMS Bhubaneswar Director Prof. Mukesh Tripathi. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Tripathi ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 23, 2022 To strengthen the chemotherapy needs of cancer patients in Odisha as well as in neighbouring states, the Medical Oncology division of Medical Oncology/Haematology Department, AIIMS Bhubaneswar started its own dedicated day care services and OPD today. Now, cancer patients seeking opinion from Medical Oncology can register directly in the G Block. This will be ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MAY 11, 2022 Ziqitza Healthcare Limited (ZHL), the operating agency for 108 Ambulance services in Odisha, on Wednesday felicitated 13 meritorious children of its staff members who were top scorers in the Class 10th examinations. The awards were given under the Ziqitza Odisha Scholarship 2022, organized here today. Besides, ZHL also felicitated its ambulance employees for showing ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 25, 2022 World Malaria Day is observed on April 25 every year to bring global attention to efforts to end malaria, encourage action to reduce suffering and death from the disease, and highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. This year, in Odisha, the Bhubaneswar Railway Station was ...

TBB BUREAU LANJIGARH, APRIL 25, 2022 Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh unit, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, has kick started a week-long health sensitization campaign for local communities on World Malaria Day. In line with the theme ‘harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives’, the company is reaching out to nearly 12,600 people residing in 28 ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 24, 2022 With the objective of bridging the demand-supply gap in quality primary healthcare services in the State, Odisha-based startup ‘VKareU’ has come up with a mobile app that offers a wide range of healthcare services at people’s doorsteps. Founded by Binod Agarwalla and Radha Agarwal and mentored by noted Oncologist Dr. Sunil Agarwal, ‘VKareU’ will ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 21, 2022 Dr. Sweta Singh, Additional Professor in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, has been conferred with the prestigious Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) Movicol Corion Award. The award is FOGSI’s highest award and carries a gold-plated plaque, certificate and a cash prize of Rs 75,000. Dr. Singh received ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 20, 2022    A series of programmes aimed at spreading awareness about fire safety was organised by city-based AMRI Hospitals from April 14 to 20 to mark the National Fire Safety Week. Expressing the importance of observing National Fire Service Week, AMRI Hospitals Bhubaneswar Vice President & Unit Head Nilanjana Mukherjee said, “Safety is an integral part ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 20, 2022 City-based Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) has been adjudged the 5th Best Multi-Speciality Medical Facility in Eastern India by the prestigious English periodical Outlook magazine. The Outlook Health Best Hospital Ranking 2022, presented by the Outlook magazine and NEB Research, has put the Orthopaedics Department of KIMS in an All-India 6th rank and ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 20, 2022 India’s leading and most secure healthcare crowdfunding platform ImpactGuru.com today said that more than 100 critically ill patients from various parts of Odisha were benefited from donations up to Rs 10 crore through crowdfunding to support their medical expenses and bills between January 2021 and April 2022. These crowdfunding campaigns supported by ImpactGuru were ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 14, 2022 Neuberg Diagnostics, one of the top four Path lab chains of Indian origin, today announced the launch of 14 Neuberg Advanced & Affordable  Diagnostics & Health Checkup Centres in Chennai, with a pipeline of 100 such centres to come up in the current financial year. This new business segment will make diagnostics affordable and ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 12, 2022 Vedanta Aluminium organized voluntary blood donation camps across its operations in Odisha and Chhattisgarh on the occasion of World Health Day to support local government blood banks. Nearly 900 units of blood were donated by employees and business partners across Jharsuguda and Lanjigarh in Odisha, and BALCO in Chhattisgarh where the company has ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2022        ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India) organised a Blood Donation Camp in association with Central Red Cross Blood Bank, Cuttack at its pellet plant in Paradip on Wednesday and a ‘Health Camp’ at Baladia village under Nuagarh Gram Panchayat on Thursday. More than 100 employees and contract workers voluntarily participated in the Blood ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2022 Nine students from AIIMS Bhubaneswar have been awarded with the prestigious ICMR Postgraduate Thesis Grant for the January 2022 session. Dr. Raghavendra V Balagod from Orthopedics, Dr. Pritika Gahlot from Microbiology, Dr. Sunkoji Srujan, Dr. Anju Ashok A K, Dr. Bharath Kumar Koppisetty, Dr. Alia Tahseen from Biochemistry, Dr. Srijan Mandal from CMFM, Dr. ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2022 A national study by leading social scientists revealed that Indian consumers are ready for warning labels on the front of packaged foods high in nutrients of concern. A randomized control field experiment spanning six states reiterated what public health experts and top doctors have been saying for a while –simple, negative warning labels that ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 8, 2022 As part of its CSR initiative focusing on strengthening healthcare facilities in rural and underserved parts of India, Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition, on Friday installed an oxygen plant with 500 LPM capacity, at Sub Divisional Hospital (SDH) Rairakhol in Sambalpur district ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, APRIL 7, 2022 The tobacco-control policy should be further strengthened at the earliest to save lives of 1.3 million Indians annually who meet with untimely death due to consumption of tobacco, demanded noted economist and BJP’s national spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal. Agarwal was also of the opinion that increasing the tax on such harmful products would ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 6, 2022 The ICICI Centre for Elderly Eye Care was launched at LV Prasad Eye Institute’s Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus here today. Supported by ICICI Bank – CSR Initiative, the centre was inaugurated by Saurabh Singh, Head – TASC, GBG and ICICI Foundation; Jaisingh Dhumal, Head-Technology Finance group, ICICI Bank; Dr. Srikant Kumar Sahu, Campus Head, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 3, 2022 Centre For Sight Group of Eye Hospitals entered Odisha with the opening of its state-of-the-art eye hospital in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. Unveiling the advanced world-class eye care hospital with the latest technology backed by a trusted team of doctors, Centre for Sight group has taken yet another step towards providing better and qualitative eye ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 1, 2022 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated a state-of-the-art cancer centre on the premises of the Apollo Hospitals Bhubaneswar on Friday. The Apollo Cancer Centre is equipped with the latest technology amid the need to treat the growing number of cancer cases. It is the first and only cancer centre in the state to be ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, APRIL 1, 2022 In Odisha, 83.31% people live in rural areas and most of them depend on groundwater for drinking and domestic use, as per the 2011 Census report. In rural areas, water supply relied heavily on borewells and handpumps before the Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC) campaign started in August 2019. But all HHs are expected ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 31, 2022 Oasis Fertility, one of the leading fertility chains in India, announced the launch of its new state-of-the-art full-fledged IVF centre in Odisha at Bhubaneswar. Backed by a highly competent team of Fertility Specialists, India’s finest Embryologists and scientists, Oasis Fertility enables couples to achieve their parenthood dreams through systematic, holistic, compassionate, and tech-based advanced ...

Kamlesh Patel Holi – a festival that brings vibrancy, joy, hope, aspiration, togetherness, generosity and a chance for change and transformation. This eclectic gamut has made us refer to it as the ‘Festival of Love’ or the ‘Festival of Colors’ or the ‘Festival of Spring’. Do you know how the festival of Holi originated? According to ancient Indian scriptures, it ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, MARCH 15, 2022 Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd (AEML), together with the Adani Foundation and the MOHAN Foundation, has launched ‘Jeevan Amrut – The Sweetest Gift of Life’, a program to create widespread awareness about the importance of organ donation. The ‘Jeevan Amrut’ awareness program encourages people to pledge to donate their organs to save others’ lives. Compared ...

TBB BUREAU JAGATSINGHPUR, MARCH 10, 2022 Country’s leading steel makerJSW Steel contributed an advanced oxygen plant and machinery to adequately cover the needs of people at Jagatsinghpur.  The Oxygen Plant has been installed at the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) amid the third wave of Covid-19 outbreak. “At JSW we believe in inclusive industrialization and we are consistently taking people along ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 10, 2022 As World Kidney Day 2022 was observed across the globe on the second Thursday of March with the theme ‘Kidney Health for All’, experts said that time-tested Ayurvedic herbs like ‘Punarnava’, ‘Gokhuru’ and ‘Varuna’ can be saviour for patients with chronic kidney disease, which has seen a rise due to various reasons. Vouching for ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 9, 2022 City-based L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) every year observes the World Glaucoma Week (March 6-12) to bring public focus on this eye disease that can affect both adults and children. Glaucoma is an eye problem associated with increase in the eye pressure, and is characterized by damage to the optic nerve leading to ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 7, 2022 With an aim to provide specialized care for people suffering from Arthritis and various immunological disorders like SLE, Scleroderma etc, a Rheumatology special clinic has been started under the Department of General Medicine at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The clinic which started functioning from Friday, will run by a team of doctors headed by Dr Anupam ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 7, 2022 The Health and Family Welfare Department of the Odisha Government in collaboration with Global Health Strategies flagged off the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) rounds in 7 districts of Odisha on Monday with the commitment to leaving no stone unturned in achieving the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis. Trained health workers will visit every household between ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 7, 2022 In commemoration of International Women’s Day, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, one of India’s largest networks of eye hospitals, is conducting free eye check-up camp for women of all age groups across all branches in Odisha till March 31, 2022. For registration, contact 9619320971. The hospital has made special arrangements for screening for certain eye ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 5, 2022 The 108 Ambulance service completed nine years of its uninterrupted emergency service in Odisha on Saturday. Since the launch of the service in the State in March 2013, 108 Ambulances have ferried and saved more than 75 lakh valuable lives. Patients from both urban as well as rural areas of the State benefited from ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 5, 2022 The Department of Health and Family welfare, Government of Odisha, will organize the second phase of the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programme in a bid for elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) in seven endemic districts of the state, on Monday. The districts in which the programme will be organised include Bargarh, Keonjhar, Kandhamal, Mayurbhanj, ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 3, 2022 With the objective of providing better healthcare services to the older adults, the Department of Medicine of AIIMS Bhubaneswar has started a special clinic in Geriatric Medicine from Tuesday. The special clinic will function on every Tuesday from 2 PM to 5 PM. Additional Professor, Medicine Dr. Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty will be the in ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 3, 2022 Amblyopia or ‘Lazy eye’ is a vision-related disorder that affects about 4 percent of children globally. If left untreated, it may lead to permanent visual impairment. To tackle this common cause of vision impairment and blindness, popular eye care chain, Dr Agarwals Eye Hospitals Group utilizing Bynocs Software, a new groundbreaking innovation which provides ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 Researchers have found that ayurveda drug BGR-34 can help lower the sugar level within 12 weeks as well as exert a powerful anti-oxidant action to prevent diabetic complications. Published in the latest edition of Serbian Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research on Sciendo scientific platform, the study by researchers from Chitkara University in Punjab ...

TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 22, 2022 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has entered into a pact with the Kochi-based startup Tranquility IOT and Bid Data Solution Pvt Ltd for the manufacture and sale of a non-invasive device — Amrita Spandana — developed by Amrita researchers for home-monitoring of glucose and blood pressure. Developed and patented by the varsity’s Centre for Wireless ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 21, 2022 The first Mobile Health Dispensary (MHD) launched by TP Central Odisha Distribution Ltd (TPCODL) has already benefited more than 10,000 villagers across 94 gram panchayats in Dhenkanal and Angul districts within the first four months of its roll out.  The MHD has been instrumental in bringing positive impact amongst villagers. Earlier, people had to ...

TBB BUREAU MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 17, 2022 Piramal Pharma Limited’s Consumer Products Division today announced the expansion of its Lacto Calamine skin care product range. The brand has launched a new campaign, ‘For a Clear Matte Face Daily,’ and brought onboard popular B-town actress, Amyra Dastur as the brand ambassador. With an aim to double its growth in the next 12- ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR/ SAMBALPUR, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 A mega blood donation camp was organized, jointly by the Odisha Police Sambalpur and Hindalco at Hirakud in the Main Colony Community Hall in which around 270 units of blood were collected. The blood donation camp was inaugurated by Sambalpur Superintendent of Police B Gangadhar in the presence of Hindalco Sambalpur Cluster Head ...

TBB BUREAU ROURKELA, FEBRUARY 9, 2022 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has administered more than 11,200 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the employees, dependants, ex-employees, contract workers, residents of servant quarters, slum dwellers and general public. RSP has purchased 12,000 Covishield doses and the vaccination is still going on for the persons above 18 years of age, at the Rehabilitation Centre ...

TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, FEBRUARY 9, 2022 “Under the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programme, the participation of community is extremely crucial. With the commitment towards elimination of filariasis, it is very important for public representatives, officials, health workers and the community to make the filariasis elimination program a public movement,” said Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Special Secretary to Department of Health ...