Quick Overview of Leprosy Treatment

Leprosy is one of the most stigmatized diseases in our country. This is in part because of the presentation of this bacterial illness. Leprosy, also called Hansen?s Disease, has a characteristic appearance by manifesting as skin lesions all over the body. The number of lesions are a hint of the severity of the disease. Another common symptom is the loss of nervous sensation in the periphery. Leprosy is differentiated into two main sub types, based on which treatment is set by the World Health Organization.

Paucibacillary leprosy, named as few number of bacteria are seen in the acid fast identification test, is combated by use of antibiotics Rifampicine and Dapsone. Multibacillary leprosy because of the high bacterial load is combated by use of antibiotics Rifampicine and Clofampicine to actively battle the high number of bacteria.

TELEMEDICINE IN INDIA...Use of Electronic information to Communicate

Like the term ‘medicine’ and ‘healthcare’ telemedicine seldom refers to provision of clinical services, medical administration, experiments and procedures. Telemedicine can be a generic term that is employed to outline numerous aspects of healthcare at a distance. It is the use of electronic information to communicate technologies to provide and support healthcare when distance separates the participants.

Benefits of telemedicine:

1. Reduce the inconvenience and price of patient transfers.

2. Reduce the inessential period of time for health professionals

3. To eradicate the distance barriers and improve access to quality health care services.

4. Providing facilities to patients and rural practitioner.

5. Telemedicine is not so costly. Anyone can afford it.

6. It helps in providing facilities in rural areas.

7. It helps in providing coordination among medical professionals.

There are two types’ Telemedicine systems in India. The first, called store and forward is used to transfer digital images from one location to another. Teleradiology, telepath logy and teledermatology are few examples. The other widely used technology, the two way interactive television, is used when a face to face consultation in necessary. The Telemedicine system has been installed in the School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata and two districts hospitals. In west Bengal, two hospitals where telemedicine centers have been established are the First Coronary Center unit inaugurated in Siliguri district hospital, west Bengal on 24 June, 2001 and Bankura sammilani hospital. 

In the past two years, the pilot project on Telemedicine in Kolkata has already provided 10,000 teleconsultations.It does not require too much of a stretch of imagination to realize the telemedicine will soon be just another way to see a health professional. Time alone will tell that Telemedicine is a forward step or a backward direction. By- Medha Choudhary

BLOOD DONORS – DONATING A SMALL PART OF YOU TO CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING LARGE TO SOMEONE.

Blood donors are people from whom blood is drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole-blood components).Though medical field has become very much advanced today, we still haven’t reached or achieved a technology where we can manufacture blood. Therefore it is very much essential for the country to have sufficient number of blood donors as they will be the only source of providing blood. When a person donates blood, he or she not just donates blood for one person because when one donates blood, the blood he or she donates will be useful for three different people at the same time as there are three different components in blood which can be used for three different people who will be in need of any one particular component. As the need for blood every day has become inevitable so has become the need for blood donors. Before donating blood, a series of tests are conducted in order to make sure if it safe for the donor to donate his or her blood. First the hemoglobin content of the donor’s blood is estimated to check if the donor has enough amount of hemoglobin content in his or her blood. If the hemoglobin content is not in the required level, then the donor would not be allowed to donate the blood. The blood received from the donor is also screened in various methods to make sure that the blood does not cause any harm to the recipient. The donor’s blood is screened to see whether the blood has any kind of medical related issues like diabetes or any such disorder. If the donor’s blood is found to be not healthy, then the blood will not be taken by the blood bank as it will be of no use as it might harm the recipient.

Today, there are a lot of blood donors who donate their blood on a regular basis at regular intervals. There a lot of donors who donate their blood as an act of charity while there are also other donors who even get paid for donating their blood. People should together create and spread awareness about the importance of donating blood and also the privilege in being a blood donor. By-Pujha Ramesh 

For more info: Blood Donors Search

Live smart and healthy with online medical advice systems...

Online medical advice is basically the medicos, providing a formal professional insight into what a concerned individual should be doing in regards to his maintaining his state of well-being. It involves the stages of diagnosis, the prescription and the thorough treatment of the shortcoming; online.Online medical advice developed in the recent years, indicating the use of a generation of physicians and health practitioners, and a huge database to prescribe healthcare means and drugs to individuals using the World Wide Web. 

Internet resources like video-conferences and messages have developed to such an extent, that it is child’s play now, to shift to online physicians giving out advices and drug prescriptions. This innovative piece of technology has not only saved costs involved and convenience and ease of access, but has also led to enhanced privacy during communications online.In India there are quite a few companies which allow consumers to access the feature of online medical advice. They have a total span of around one lakh doctors under their umbrella. Millions of monthly interactive sessions are recorded. IT thus provides free communication with doctors, specialist consultation, paid though, audio- and video-calling attributes, and real-time news feed on various medical and health issues.

Apart from the above-mentioned pros of this system, online medical advice has its shortcomings as well. Firstly, there is no physical examination of the patients. Then again, medical jargon and linguistic barriers can oppose the main idea of this system.The advent of online medical advice in the field of healthcare has been a great boon to mankind and its numerous problems. What remains to be seen is whether this system can find solutions to all the problems and live up to the expectations.

By - Rounak Bose

Telemedicine-the new trend

It is by far the prime method of healthcare service delivery in the near future. It is the niche that will be provided to us to maintain the efficiencies needed in affordable healthcare provisions. And in India, it is taking the health market by storm. Telemedicine in India is a product of the 20th century high-tech innovations, allowing for interactive sessions amongst the patients and the medicos, all the while, maintaining the privacy and integrity. It also involves the sending of medical images and health data across channels. 

It can be roughly classified into 3 main branches based on the type of service provided; store-and-forward telemedicine, real-time interaction sessions, and remote monitoring of patients.The Telemedicine Society of India, a government initiative, providing Telemedicine and online health-care is not the only provider in this field. It is backed by many growing and developed private institutes serving this premium feature. 

This new addition to the array of medical services is highly beneficial to those people who live in remote places and inaccessible communities. They receive intensive care from specialists online, without having to travel for solutions to their medical maladies. Online patient visits and prescription generation and h-drug administration reduces drastically the cost of medical services. 

On the darker side, huge expenditure is involved n the setting-up and initialising of this process. It also reduces face-to-face interaction and totally removes the play of emotions.  Despite all its flaws, telemedicine in India is maturing to an advanced level at a high rate. In this era, when the average consumer carries out almost all of his day to day activities online, it is definitely not a surprise that healthcare and advanced medicine departments should also be handled in the same fashion. 

By -  Rounak Bose

IT’S NOT A FAITH IN TECHNOLOGY, IT’S ABOUT THE FAITH PEOPLE HAVE ON DOCTORS

Best Doctors in Noida

Best thing about modernization is bringing medical knowledge into clinical practice. Doctors are a boon to this world. They are the most essential part of one’s life. Without doctors, life cannot be imagined. For once if we think that it’s okay if doctors won’t be there but what about the diseases? Will it stop? The answer is no, they won’t stop in fact they will be more deadly every single day.

In delhi, noida so far has the best set of doctors. Every specialist is found in NOIDA and this is what makes it a developed place. With MEDICOSA booking an appointment with these doctors has become even simpler. It is no longer important to stand in big ques for getting yourself checked. Book a prior appointment via medicosa and just visit the doctor. Isn’t it saving lots of time? Oh yes! It is..!

Most frequently visited doctor is a general physician. But it is very important for people to understand that some diseases can be cured only my specialists and not a general physician. Most of the times, if the case is severe, suggests those patients to go and show their case to specialist. But what if a doctor doesn’t suggest? It is very important that people should be aware of what is needed and at what time. Before visiting any doctor, it is very important to completely study about his/her profile. If there are any reviews mentioned about the doctor on the MEDICOSA site, please take those reviews seriously because a wrong doctor can risk your life. So don’t take any chances! Sometimes good doctors also give a bad impression! By - Trishala

ONLINE MEDICAL ADVICE

Online medical advice is available which is a boon to mankind. In this busy lifestyle, a person doesn’t even bother to go and get himself checked if he is unwell because he “DOESN’T HAVE TIME”. Ignoring the illness or a symptom means inviting serious complications. So to manage time and keeping a track on the health, MEDICOSA has come up with this online medical advice which enables a person to get the best doctor for his/her disease. Within few steps the problem of time and health both are solved.

This is something very common but this has something which might help all of us to choose online medical advice and we can trust on MEDICOSA for the same. I remember one of college incident, my room-mate Neeta had a bad pain in a throat. She could not understand why it was paining. She ignored it for several days. Few days later the pain was unbearable. But because of busy college schedule she couldn’t find time to visit a doctor. Later she found out that she was suffering from acute tonsillitis with severe ulcers.

The disease had gone to an extreme state. She regretted about not consulting a doctor. What if Neeta could know about online medical advice? Her disease wouldn’t have worsened so much. Online medical advice helps in giving the patient about the idea of their disease however it is not the substitute for the health checkups in the hospital. It is very important to understand the difference between the same. By -Trishala

For more info : Online Medical Advice