Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgeons at Mumbai
Monday, August 17, 2009
Dr. Kaushal Pandey
Cardio-Thoracic & Vascular Surgeon
M.S., M.Ch., FACA
Dr. Kaushal Pandey brings to Wockhardt Heart Care a vast experience of performing about eight thousand Cardio-Thoracic & Vascular Surgeries in India and abroad.
During his five years stay in Australia, Dr. Pandey was exposed to about 3500 cases, out of which he himself performed 800 operations.
Consultant Timings :Wednesday & Saturday 5. 00 pm – 7. 00 pm
To Fix an Appointment email enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Dr. Shantesh Kaushik
Cardio - Thoracic & Vascular Surgeon
M.S.D.N.B. (Gen Surg.), M. Ch. (Thor. Surg.)
D.N.B. (Cardio-thor. Surg.), M.D. (USA)
Dr. Kaushik had a privilege of learning and practicing at renowned places in India, Australia and USA including the Royal Melbourne Hospital (the second largest cardio thoracic center in Australia), Boston Medical Center in Boston, USA and the Lahey Clinic, USA.
In his combined overseas experience he has been exposed to 4000 cases of which he has performed about 900 cases.
Consultant Timings:Monday - Saturday 10. 00 am – 6. 00 pm
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Dr. Sandeep T Honnekeri
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeon
MS. Mch., DNB.Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeon
Dr. Sandeep T Honnekeri Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeon. Dr. Sandeep Honnekeri is specialised in Beating Heart Coronary Bypass Surgery using Total Arterial Revascularisation. He has performed more than 2500 such surgeries and routinely used both internal mammary arteries ( LIMA+RIMA) often as a “Y” graft. He is also the only surgeon in the country to regularly use the GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY (taking it off the stomach wall and connecting it to the heart)
Consultant Timings:Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
To Fix an Appointment email enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Dr. Ajay Chaugle
Cardio Thoracic Surgeon
Mch Cardiothoracic Surgery
Visiting Fellow University of Barcelona,Spain
Dr Ajay Chaugle is specially trained for Endoscopic Cardiac Surgeries and Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery.His special interest is in Adult Cardiac Surgery and he was an important member of a team which developed Beating Heart Surgery in India.
Dr Chaugle is is doing 95% Beating Heart Surgery and specialised in doing endarterectomies, LV aneurysms repairs on beating heart. Has done left main aneurysm repair on beating heart. Has done awake heart surgeries also.
Consultant Timings:Monday to Saturday
To Fix an Appointment email enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Consultant Timings:Monday to Saturday
To Fix an Appointment email enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Interventional Cardiologist in Mumbai,Mulund Facilty
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Backing our hi-tech cardiac facilities at Mulund,Mumbai is an eminent and dynamic cardiac team, members of which are not only leaders in their field in India but have gained national and International recognition for their pioneering work in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Cardiologists associated with Wockhardt Heart Care Specialty have been educated and trained at some of the best teaching hospitals in the world like Mayo Clinic, Texas Heart Institute, Cleveland Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital. Their collective experience makes this cardiac team amongst the most dynamic and innovative in the country.
Dr. Hasmukh Ravat - Interventional Cardiologist
M.D. (Medicine), D.M. (Cardiology), Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, Australia
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Dr Manjeet Junega-Interventional Cardiologist
M.D. (General Medicine), D.M. (Cardiology), M.N.A.M.S
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Dr. Suresh Vijan - Interventional Cardiologist
M.D., MRCP (UK)
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Dr. P.A Kale - Interventional Cardiologist
M.D., F.A.C.C., I.C.C., F.I.S.F., F.I.C.P
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Dr. Chetan Shah - Interventional Cardiologist
M.D. (Medicine), D.M. (Cardiology), FACC, FACP (USA)
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Dr. Vinod .Kumar Shah - Interventional Cardiologist
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Dr. Zakia Khan - Interventional Cardiologist
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Dr. Nandkumar Chonkar - Cardiologist
M.D. (Gen. Med.), DM(Card.)
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For appointments and consultations please email us at enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Clincal Services and Medical Breakthroughs at Wockhardt Hospitals and Kidney Institute,Kolkata
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wockhardt Hospital & Kidney Institute - Kolkata, part of premier chain of Wockhardt Hospitals and an affiliate hospital of Harvard Medical International of USA is the first and the only dedicated super specialty Kidney Hospital in Eastern India, established in the year 1988.
- Wockhardt Kidney Institute pioneered in Lithotripsy - the non-surgical non-invasive way of treating Kidney stones in India with the introduction of Lithotripter using ultrasonography and X-ray for localization of stones and electro-magnetic waves to crush them.
- Wockhardt Kidney Institute has performed the maximum number of PCNLs (stones) extracted through a small hole at the back.
- Wockhardt Kidney Institute performs the maximum number of kidney stone as well as kidney.
- Surgeries per month with almost 100% success rate in Eastern India catering to over 50 million people.
- It has performed the first successful Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy in Kidney Transplant surgery in Eastern India.
- Wockhardt Kidney Institute introduced Penile Implant surgery in the Eastern India.
- The Kidney Institute performs maximum number of dialysis per month in the city and has become synonym to Kidney care in the Eastern India.
Senior Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon Dr Keyur Anil Buch joins our Bangalore Team
We welcome Dr Keyur Anil Buch
MS Orth, MCh Orth (UK), FRCSEd (Trauma & Orth)
Senior Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon, Superspecialist: Upper Limb Arthroscopy, Joint Replacement and Trauma
Dr Keyur Buch obtained MChOrth from Aberdeen University in the UK and then went on to be awarded the internationally acclaimed FRCS (Tr & Orth) qualifications from the UK after which he was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the UK in the National Health Service.
During his long stay in the UK and USA, Dr Buch honed his skills in arthroscopy of shoulder, wrist, elbow and knee as well upper limb and small joint replacements including shoulder/elbow/knuckle and basal joint of the thumb replacements. His other clinical super specialties skills include key-hole surgery for dislocated shoulder, impingement and muscle pain around shoulder and knee; minimally invasive surgery for tennis elbow/golfer's elbow and scaphoid fractures and plaster-less treatment of distal radius fractures
Dr Buch completed a one year Upper Limb Clinical Fellowship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA, where one of the ex-Prime Ministers of India was a patient.
During his extensive clinical practice in the UK, USA, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Dr Buch has successfully treated numerous high profile celebrities from business, sports (including Olympic athletes and immediate family members of high profile soccer players in the UK), a range of shoulder, knee, wrist, elbow and hand problems.
During his extensive clinical practice in the UK, USA, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Dr Buch has successfully treated numerous high profile celebrities from business, sports (including Olympic athletes and immediate family members of high profile soccer players in the UK), a range of shoulder, knee, wrist, elbow and hand problems.
Dr Buch has also been actively involved in providing practical surgical training to post-MS Orth and post-FRCS surgeons in the fields of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery.
Dr Keyur Anil Buch will be available for consultations and appointments,please email us at enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net for scheduling appointments
Dr Keyur Anil Buch will be available for consultations and appointments,please email us at enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net for scheduling appointments
Health of our Nation: India Ranks 171 out of 175 on Healthcare Spending
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
If statistics are any indication on the state of health in India,there is a lot to worry...As per World Health Organization survey, India is at the bottom of the heap in terms of public health spending and ranks 171st out of 175 countries,which is less than even what some of the sub-Saharan African countries spent on their Healthcare.
The highest public health care spending per person is in the regions of Western Europe, North America and Japan. Luxembourg, Norway and Iceland. For a country that has the second largest population and is soon to overtake china , India spends 5.2% of its GDP on healthcare — compared to, say, 16% in the US and 13% in Sweden. Of this, only 0.9% is spent by the government while the private sector accounts for the remaining 4.3%.
The US,UK,and Switzerland spends the most as a percentage of their GDP. Health Care spending in the US is projected to grow to 19.5% of GDP in 2017.
In 1962, Defense spending in the US made up half of the federal budget, Social Security about 15% and Medicare had not yet been enacted. By 2007, Defense spending is only 20% of the budget while Social Security makes up 21% and Medicare 16% and rising.
According to Vishal Bali,CEO Wockhardt Hospitals, “Public health spending as a percentage of GDP is minuscule. Due to this, India is over-dependent on the private sector. Contrast us with China, which spends almost almost 6% of its GDP of health,’’ says Vishal Bali, CEO, Wockhardt Hospitals. While India ranks among the top 10 countries for communicable diseases, it is a world leader in chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease.
Despite the wide gaps, higher spending on health care does not necessarily prolong lives. In 2000, theUnited States spent more on health care than any other country in the world: an average of $ 4,500 per person. Switzerland was second highest, at $3,300 or 71% of the US. Nevertheless, average US life expectancy ranks 27th in the world, at 77 years.
Treating Pediatric Congenital Heart Diseases
Wockhardt Hospitals offers various advanced surgical therapies for congenital heart diseases for pediatric patients of all ages from newborns to adolescents.The conditions that we treat more often in the various age groups includes
NEONATAL CONDITIONS
Trans position of the great arteries (emergency switch procedures). In this condition the anatomical positions of the pulmonary artery and aorta was switched so that the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery arises from the left ventricle.
This causes oxygen poor blood to be circulated to the body instead of oxygen rich blood, a life threatening medical emergency requiring immediate treatment.Our surgeons have pioneered the innovative arterial switch procedure that reestablishes normal anatomy and function while seeking to avoid complications that are associated with other surgical approaches.
Hypoplastic left heart Syndrome (Norwood procedure of Hypoplastic left heart); This is a condition in which the left side of the heart is incompletely formed.We have extensive experiance with the Norwood Procedure and stage palliation for the HLHS .Our success rate ranks among the best in the country for this type of repair and we are currently involved with a major multi institutional study evaluating this and other innovative procedures for the treatement of HLHS.
INFANTS CONDITION
Tetralogy of Fallot:The most common cyanotic defect (the heart delivers less oxygen to the body than normal).This complex congenital condition consists of 4 developmental defects that require surgical correction early in childhood.
Ventricular Septal Defect:An opening in the wall that separates the two ventricles of the heart,causing mixing of oxygen-poor blood with oxygen-rich blood.
Atrial Septal Defect:An opening in the wall between the right and left atria that results in abnormal blood flow throught the heart.Left untreated,this condition can cause enlargement of the right side of the heart,arrhythmia s and , in some cases, pulmonary hypertension.
Coarctation of the aorta A constriction in the aorta that causes blood pressure to increase above the narrowed area while limiting blood flow to the body.
Atrioventricular Canals: large openings between the right and left sides of the heart.Usually,one large common valve replaces the normal mitral and tricuspid valves .Left untreated,this defect can cause poor growth malnourishment and enlargement of the heart and pulmonary hypertension.
CHILDREN
Fontan procedure: Single ventricle,a collective term that describes defects in which oxygen-rich blood and poor blood are mixed in a single ventricle. Our pediatric cardiac surgeons have the expertise in the fontan procedure that directs oxygen poor blood directly to the pulmonary artery and lungs.The single ventricle is reservd for collecting oxygen rich blood from the lungs and then pumping it to the aorta and rest of the body.
For appointments and enquiries,please email us at enquiries@wockhardthospitals.net
Straight from the Heart :US Pastor talks about the caring ways of Indian Healthcare
Thursday, August 6, 2009
An US Pastor from Norwalk,Connecticut, shares his experience at our Mulund Facility at Mumbai,Wockhardt Hospitals.
I had hip resurfacing surgery at Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai .My surgeon there was Dr. Malhan. What a great doctor. I am so happy with the treatment and the nurses and the hospital and the outcome of my surgery.
I am probably your greatest fan and advertisement. I get calls and emails and people asking me how it went all the time. Just this week, I did a radio interview, and also I did a "testimonial" this evening for some new company just starting up trying to send Americans overseas for Medical treatment.
It just hit me that I should probably become an agent for you guys, setting up some websites, and getting on the phone, helping patients who need your services, but don't know what to do, and who to trust. I am not a medical doctor, nor am I in that field. Rather, I am a very respected, satisfied customer. There is no greater advertisement in the world.
It is quite a scary thing for an American to send several thousand dollars to an overseas medical facility. When I had my surgery, the most frightful moment was when I sent the check to pay the bill in advance. It sure helped knowing the people I was dealing with here in the US.
The people that helped me were from Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina. IndUSHealth. They walked me through every step of the process. They helped me get the x-rays, the doctors here, and the doctor over there. They helped me with the "business" of traveling overseas: visa, passport, cell phone, airfare, etc. Etc. It really was quite daunting for someone who never had traveled much before. They held my hand and made me feel confident.
I would like to do the same thing for others.
Maybe you have a packet prepared for those considering being agents for you. Or maybe I should come to Mumbai and meet with someone there in your marketing department. Whatever would be best for you, that would be all right with me.
Please tell Dr. Malhan hello for me. Tell him I am the American Pastor that played the harmonica (mouth organ) all day long while on the 7th floor in rehabilitation. He will remember me.
May God bless you good people for being so good to me when I had a need.
World Breast Feeding Week 2009 Observed from1st-7th August
The World Breast Feeding Week is observed this year from August1st to August,7th.The theme for the 18th Annual World Breast-feeding Week (WBW) celebration is “Breast-feeding: A Vital Emergency Response Are you ready?” This year’s theme emphasizes the need to consider breast-feeding as a life saving intervention before and during emergencies.
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) was formed in 1991 to act on the Innocenti Declaration (1990) to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. As part of its action plan to facilitate and strengthen social mobilisation for breastfeeding.
This has become to be known as World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) celebrated every 1-7 August to commemorate the Innocenti Declaration. World Breastfeeding Week was first celebrated in 1992. Now it involves over 120 countries and is endorsed by UNICEF, WHO and FAO
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) was formed in 1991 to act on the Innocenti Declaration (1990) to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. As part of its action plan to facilitate and strengthen social mobilisation for breastfeeding.
This has become to be known as World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) celebrated every 1-7 August to commemorate the Innocenti Declaration. World Breastfeeding Week was first celebrated in 1992. Now it involves over 120 countries and is endorsed by UNICEF, WHO and FAO
World BreastFeeding Week 2009 Objectives
- To draw attention to the vital role that breastfeeding plays in emergencies worldwide.
- To stress the need for active protection and support of breastfeeding before and during emergencies.
- To inform mothers, breastfeeding advocates, communities, health professionals, governments, aid agencies, donors, and the media on how they can actively support breastfeeding before and during an emergency.
- To mobilize action and nurture networking and collaboration between those with breastfeeding skills and those involved in emergency response.
Babies, who are breastfed have a secure and safe food supply, they are not exposed to disease-causing bacteria and parasites that can contaminate water supplies, and they receive antibodies and other disease fighting factors that help prevent illness.
Children are the most vulnerable in emergencies – child mortality can soar from 2 to 70 times higher than average due to diarrhoea, respiratory illness and malnutrition.
Breastfeeding is a life saving intervention and protection is greatest for the youngest infants. Even in non-emergency settings, non-breastfed babies under 2 months of age are six times more likely to die.
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