Udupi: Doctors at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, successfully removed a live parasitic worm from the eye of a four-year-old girl who presented with persistent redness and irritation in her right eye. The child has recovered fully and has been discharged.The child was brought to the department of ophthalmology after her parents noticed persistent redness in her…
Udupi: A man who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at his residence has made a full recovery with no neurological deficit at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal. Doctors from Kasturba Hospital were in the neighbourhood when he collapsed. They began CPR within seconds and intubated him at his residence. He was shifted to the emergency department with…
Udupi: The family of 76-year-old woman from Gangolli donated her organs on Monday, after she was declared brain dead at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal. Her liver, eyes and skin were retrieved for transplantation, giving a new lease of life to patients in need, despite her advanced age.Jenny D’ Souza, homemaker from Gangolli, breathed her last at…
Udupi: Stopping a patient’s entire blood circulation to remove a tumour is extremely rare — and doctors at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, did just that to treat a 63-year-old man from Shivamogga whose kidney cancer had reached the right chamber of his heart.Scans showed a large tumour in his left kidney with a tumour thrombus —…
Udupi: Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Manipal, and the Department of Paediatric Oncology, Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, inaugurated the Division of Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Hematology and Immunology (BHIM) and observed the World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The inauguration ceremony was held at the Smt Sharada Madhav Pai Memorial OPD…
Udupi: Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, has carried out its first full gender-affirming surgery for a transgender woman. The surgery went well, and the patient is now recovering under the hospital team’s care. The hospital says this is an important step in its efforts to ensure every patient feel welcome and well cared for.The plastic surgery department…
As part of the nationwide ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign, MRPL, in association with the forest department, organised a tree plantation drive at its premises Mangaluru: Tree plantation drives, awareness campaigns and other activities marked World Environment Day celebrations across Mangaluru on Friday, with government agencies, educational institutions, public sector undertakings and corporates joining…
Udupi: Chellaram Access Life at MAHE Manipal, for paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) patients was inaugurated on Saturday. Access Life, a registered Indian not-for-profit organisation committed to ensuring that no child has to abandon cancer treatment due to non-medical challenges, opened the centre to support families of children undergoing treatment at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal. The…
