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Medical Tourism – Thee nights and Four days for a new Knee: Chawm Ganguly

The first recorded instance of people travelling to obtain medical treatment dates back thousands of years and refers to Greek pilgrims travelling from all over the Mediterranean to the small territory in the Saronic Gulf called Epidauria. This territory was the sanctuary of Asklepios – the Greek God of medicine . Asclepius represented the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters being Hygieia (“Hygiene”, the goddess/personification of …

Satyan Bhatt, Cofounder & MD, Prism PR talks PR with CorpComm students of BESC

Satyan Bhatt, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Channai based public relations entity Prism PR (www.prism-india.com) shared his deep insight about all matters corporate communications with the students of BESC’s 3 month CorpComm course, christened 36 Chambers of Corporate Communications. He was accompanied by his comrade in arms and Prism’s co-founder, Parul Bhatt, who recounted how …

Infertility – The “Good News” that isn’t. Chawm Ganguly

We are a Nation almost one fifth of mankind and produce in any given year more babies than the entire population of many countries. Search long enough and the root cause of all our country’s problems will point menacingly to over population. In short, “We the People”, are a virile, fertile one. Right? Well, not …

Hospice – of Home, Hearth and Health – Chawm Ganguly

The concept was simple – to provide the necessary medical support to patients without confining them within the often overbearing precincts of the hospital. And it made a lot of sense. For one, life-saving interventions are generally not required after the initial few days of the admission of a patient, who can be safely transferred …

Healthy, Wealthy and Wisely Insured – Chawm Ganguly

The concept of health insurance in its modern avatar dates back to 1694. In India too, health insurance products have been available in one garb or the other for as long as one can remember. However, it was the policy of Economic Liberalisation in 1991, followed in quick succession by the passing of the Insurance …

Diabetes – of Sugar ‘n Spice and all things nice – Chawm Ganguly

Trends from the world of Diabetology One in eleven adults suffers from diabetes. To put things in the proper perspective, that is 415 million people around the world. By 2040, this will aggravate further, with one in every ten – 642 million – suffering from the silent killer. Every 6 seconds, a person dies from …

Dentistry: of Crowns and Glories – Chawm Ganguly

5000 years before the birth of Christ, the ancient Sumerians talked of tooth worms as the cause of Dental decay. The Egyptians went even further and inscriptions on the tomb of Hesy-Re refers to him as “the greatest of those who deal with teeth, and of physicians” – the earliest known reference to a person …

The effect of Climate Change on CardioVascular diseases – Chawm Ganguly

The Earth is heating up. The polar caps are melting, resulting in the gradual rise in the sea levels, which, in turn, promises to play havoc with the world as we know it today. Already, the summers are prolonged, the winters are harsher and the monsoons are erratic. Water tables are being depleted at an …

Phytotheraphy: plants from the past promising cures of the future – Chawm Ganguly

Phytotherapy, the ancient art of using plants with proven medicinal qualities to heal ailments and more importantly, to restore balance is fast regaining the place it had sadly lost over time. Any journey to the root of medical practice, be it in the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, China, Egypt or India, is not complete without …

The medicine behind Citius, Altius, Fortius – The amazing advancements in sports medicine : Chawm Ganguly

As kids, and extremely outgoing, naughty kids at that, we were not unfamiliar with physical injuries. Nasty bruises, swollen limbs, bleeding wounds were all, like the trophies we won, integral parts of our lives, fundamental to growing up. The balms too were equally predictable consisting of ice packs, all purpose antiseptic lotions and a paste …