Neonatology in Chandigarh, Mohali

This article is presented to you by the courtesty of Fortis Hospital, Mohali. Fortis hospital is JCI and Nabh accredited nad offer state of the art medcial services to the patients from Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula and neighbouring stated like Himachal as well. Fortis also provides health care services to a large number of patiewnts from develope countgries like US, UK and Australia etc as patients from those countries get same level of medical care an in their home country at the fraction of the costs in Fortis and other top hospital in India or other medical tourism destinations.

Now let me show you the Neonatology surgery in Chandigarh, Mohali by Fortis hospital, Mohali.

With a vision to provide the state of Punjab world class cardiac and multispectiality care, Fortis Hospital mohali has become the focal point of healthcare for the residents of North India; Fortis Hospital Mohall is one of the internationally recognized hospitals in India and has now successfully introduced a world class Neonatal Centre in its premises. The department of Neonatology at Fortis Hospital Mohall has a medical faculty supported by a team of professionals who have the competence to take care of newborns, especially those that are preterm or otherwise requiring critical care.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Agrawal, DM Neonatology, who heads the Department, is a product of PGIMER, Chandigarh. Dr.Sunil Kumar Agrawal is supported by a team of specially trained doctors and nurses who are in attendance round he clock. The expertise in neonatal care is enhanced by the modern facilities at the hospital.
Care of sic and premature newborns: Neonatal intensive care unit (Level III (NICU)
Fortis Mohall has a state of the art NICU AND STEP DOWN Nursery, which is fully equipped to handle all neonatal emergencies and which meets international standards. The tertiary-level NICU ensures a 1:1 ratio of Nurse-newborn for these critical newborns.

Fortis has the best possible equipments: Giraffe Open Care Systems, Ohmeda Incubators, SLE NEONATAL Ventilators, Fisher & Paykel Bubble CLPAP System, Philips Multi-channel Vital-sign Monitors and Phoenix Double Surface Phototherapy Units. Also the NICU is designed to promote developmental care of these high risk newborns’ (special lighting to promote sleep/wake cycle, low ambient noise level).
The NICU has the following facilities:-

• Incubators and open head warmers(For keeping babies warm)


• Neonatal Ventilation (For supporting breathing problems)


• Intensive care Monitoring (Continuous recording of vital parameters)


• Surfactant Therapy for Respiratory Distress (Special medicines to mature baby’s lungs)


• Blood Gas Analyzer (Measurement of critical blood parameters)


• Digital syringe & infusion pumps.


• Blood Exchange Transfusion for Jaundice(replacement of jaundiced blood with fresh normal blood)


• Double-surface Phototherapy for Jaundice (Special blue lights for treating jaundice).


• Total Parenteral Nutrition (intravenous nutrient delivery).


• Round-the clock Neonatal Surgical Support.

NEONATAL EMERGENCY TRANSPORT SERVICE (NETS)
Fortis has round the clock neonatal Emergency Transport Service (NETS)facility, which is used to transport sick and premature babies from other hospitals and to transfer babies back to the referring hospital following treatment, it comprises of an ambulance fitted in with a Phoenix Neonatal Transport Incubator cum ventilator, which can provide ventilation en-route, MULTI-CHANNEL Vital-sign Monitors and infusion pumps.

Each transfer of a sick newborn has a complete team in attendance a doctor, nurse and a technician. This facility is provided at no cost for the tricity patients.

ROUTINE CARE OF THE NEWBORN:
All deliveries at the hospital are attended by the NEONATOLOGIST WHO apart from providing care to newborns educates parents regarding various healthcare issues like breastfeeding, vaccinations, temperature maintenance, bathing, oil massaging and addresses myths related to newborn care.

FOLLOW UP OF HIGH RISK NEWBORNS:
The Department also provides follow-up care for these high risk newborns as they need close monitoring and regular assessment for growth failure, neurodevelopment disabilities, hearing and vision problems. Early identification and timely treatment will help to minimize their disabilities.

OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES
The department has also round the clock availability of Neonatal Surgical facility, radio imaging including Echocardiography, Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Blood bank and State of the art Laboratory services.
When you need help in dealing with a sick newborn, time is of paramount importance. For this reason, we have a dedicated telephone line to access NETS/NICU AT FORTIS HOSPITAL MOHALI.
NETS/NICU HOTLINE: 0172-172-4692211.

Andhra town is world’s rent a womb mart

Guntur abuzz with ads offering ‘services’ for childless couples. THE rent-a-womb business is alive and kicking in the poverty-stricken town of Guntur, located in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

In fact, promises to deliver through surrogacy are being dangled to childless couples just about everywhere — from advertisements in the print media and active offers on dedicated websites, to posters, pamphlets, hoardings and even crude enticements on autorickshaws.

With clinics converting it into a commercial activity, the practice of surrogacy — a couple hiring the womb of another woman to bear their child — has now turned into an attractive business proposition from being a hush- hush affair earlier.

The worrying aspect of the trend is that irrespective of norms and health parameters, several women of the region from the underprivileged section of society are being lured by unscrupulous agents to rent their wombs. Predictably, the response is huge. On any day, many childless parents can be seen making enquiries about surrogacy at fertility clinics in Guntur.

“Last year, we performed 10 surrogate deliveries. At present, we are taking care of four such cases and another three are under observation,” Dr S. N. Umashankar, a local In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and surrogacy expert, revealed.


Read more at:http://in.news.yahoo.com/andhra-town-is-world%E2%80%99s-rent-a-womb-mart.html

Cheap Cheek Implants Abroad

If you have followed our previous posts, you must have read about emerging trends in medical tourism for cosmetic surgery abroad in countries like South Korea. Read the post here “Affordable Cosmetic Surgery in South Korea”

Among various cosmetic surgery procedure, cheek implants or cheek augmentation surgery is one procedure that can dramatically change the looks of a person dramatically. And give them an attractive face bone structure that they were lagging previously.

Many cosmetic surgeons advise patients to combine cheek implants with other cosmetic procedures like Chin Augmentation or Rhinoplasty to get maximum benefits. It’s no doubt that cheek implants can make an ordinary look face very attracting and beautiful but like all cosmetic treatments cheek implants is also very expensive and can cost you a fortune. However there are cheaper alternatives like getting cheek implants abroad. All you need is to travel to medical tourism destinations that offer cheek implants (Like India, South Korea, Thailand, Panama etc). In these countries you can get the cheek implant done at the fractions of the cost in your home country.

More information about Cheek Implant surgery:

• Performed under general anesthesia


• It takes around 1-2 hours to perform the surgery


• No hospitalization is required


• Results are permanent, but revision may be required in case cheek implants slip.


• Surgery may cause some apparent swelling and normal recovery time can be around 1-2 months


• Patient can return to work etc after 1-2 weeks


• Also known as Cheek augmentation, cheek lift or simply cheek surgery.


• Temporary tightness of skin


• Temporary restriction of chewing


• It costs around 4K to 10K USD in USA but one can get this done at around 2K USD abroad.

These kinds of procedures are more common among the celebrities, actors and actresses from various countries and slowly gaining popularity among common people also. All of us have the right to look well and cosmetic surgeries like cheek implants make it possible to achieve those looks. Soon I’ll post about how to find the right destination for cheek implants abroad and what you must do to select the right cosmetic surgeon for your surgery.

Happy New Year

We at Medical Tourism Guidance blog wish you all a very happy new year. Hope you all have a healthy 2012.

2011 been a good year and be shared our knowledge about medical tourism industry with the world, which we will continute in 2012 and years to come. For those you want to know more and share their views about the medical tourism industry can also see out facebook page.

Here are some of our popular blog posts that you can take a look again :

• Question to ask before seeking a medical trip


• Low Cost Cyberknife Cancer Treatment Abroad


• Gastric bypass abroad

Affordable Cosmetic Surgery in South Korea

In the current world women are very much concerned about their looks and they don’t mind undergoing surgeries to enhance the looks. Majority of those who undergo cosmetic surgeries are male & female models, actors, actresses and celebrities. However few of the people from the business and royal families also undergo cosmetic surgery to enhance their looks.

Recently Rakhi Sawant, one of the actresses in India mainly known for her dance numbers in the Hindi Movies was quoted saying “Doctors can give you but god forgets to give.” This answer was in response to newspersons asking her about her recent silicon implants surgery, she had undergone plastic surgery in the past as well.

Nowadays almost 100% of the movie stars, singers etc have undergone cosmetic surgery thus creating a buzz among the fans as well. Now normal people also don’t mind undergoing surgery for that killing looks be it plastic surgery, botox injection, implants, prosthetics etc.

“I want to look beautiful and I don’t have any fear for surgery”. This is what a young lady from UK was heard saying when we asked her about how did she make up her mind for visiting a foreign Country for cosmetic surgery. She shortlisted South Korea as the procedure costs in South Korea are fraction of what it would cost in her country and also the fact that South Korea in known on the world map for best cosmetic surgeons.

Best thing about cosmetic treatments is that nobody can know that you have got thse mirror cracking looks artificially be it nose reduction, lip treatment, botox, Buttock Augmentation, breast reduction or enhancement etc.

Below are the cosmetic procedures that you can undergo in South Korea and save thousands of dollars in enhancing the looks:

• Botox
• Facial Implant
• Face Lift
• Facial Scar Revision
• Chin Reduction
• Tummy Tuck
• Keyhole Plastic Surgery
• Liposuction
• Chin Surgery
• Dermabrasion
• Eyelid Surgery
• Male Breast Tissue Reduction
• Breast Augmentation
• Breast Lift
• Breast Reduction
• Brow Lift
• Butt Enlargement
• Buttock Lift
• Chemical Peel
• Injectable Fillers
• Thermage
• Sclerotherapy
• Forehead Lift
• Arm Lift
• Hair Replacement
• Intense Pulsed Light Treatment
• Laser Hair Removal
• Laser Vein treatment
• Laser Skin Resurfacing
• Neck Lift
• Otoplasty Ear Surgery
• Rhinoplasty
• Thighplasty Thigh Lift
• Thread Lift

Infertility treatment abroad

Infertility is a problem that has caused serious problems to many couples. Normally couples don’t want to discuss this topic, but stats say that infertility is an issue that millions of couples are facing around the globe. Infertility is not just a male problem but many female can also have the inability to conceive. There are many reasons for infertility like:

• Abnormal sperm production in males.
  
  
• Unsuccessful delivery of sperm: There are many reasons behind this like blockage in testicles, genetic diseases, structural problems etc.
  
  
• Problems with sexual life
  
  
• Poor health conditions – This is normally due to unhealthy life style drug abuse, use of alcohol, obesity etc.
  
  
• Age – Normally it’s hard for male older than 40 to fertile.
  
  
• Fallopian tube damage or blockage in females.
  
  
• Problems with ovulation.
  
  
• Early menopause - It happens after 40 but earlier stoppage of menstruation can also be a major reason.
  
  
• Medications abuse – Use of some medicines can also lead to infertility but this can be solved by stopping the use of medicines.
  
  
• Thyroid dysfunction: Too much of thyroid or too little of thyroid hormone can interrupt the menstrual cycles.
  
  
• Surgery – Any kind of surgery like pelvic of cervical surgery can cause fertility problems.

What is the cure of infertility?

Infertility just like any other medical condition can be cured. All you need is to consult an experienced doctor. There are many advanced fertility techniques available like:

• In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
• Ovulation induction (OI)
• Intra Cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
• Intra Uterine insemination (IUI)
• Artificial insemination
• Surrogacy

Best part is that using these techniques you can become parent at any age. Parents in 40s, 50s, and even 60s have conceived successfully using the modern fertility techniques. Success rates in conceiving using these techniques is as high as 80% however with experienced doctors success rate can be as high as 95%.

Cost of Fertility Treatments

Normally costs involved in fertility treatments are very high in US and depending upon the type of procedure chosen it can cost from anywhere around $800 to %10000 per attempt. One cost effective solution to this is to choose countries like Mexico, India, Bangkok, Jordan, Brazil, Turkey etc where the same procedures cost as less as 75% of the costs in US.

As I’ve said in my previous post as well lower costs never ever means that there any any sub-standards in care, infrastructure, hygiene standards etc. The truth is that you will find hospitals and medical care in these countries even better than your home country.

Medical tourism is definitely the new global business and you can start a family happily by choosing Infertility treatment abroad

Question to ask before seeking a medical trip

Are you considering medical trip abroad as you find treatment abroad to be cost effective solution for your health situation. It’s a good thing that you understand the benefits of medical tourism. However given the benefits of treatment abroad this industry has become very lucrative and almost each country is trying to attract medical travelers. Thus it’s very much likely that you can fall into bad hands thus making medical trip a nightmare.

Now question arises how to choose the right hospital, doctor and country for treatment abroad? One must research all the option available and then shortlist one carefully. Before you think of final a country for medical tourism consider following pointers:

• Distance: Check you how much your medical condition allows you to travel and what the transport condition is in the destination country? If both these conditions satisfies you then you can proceed and check out other factors.
  
  
• Language: Does the staff understand English or your native language. In case the staff is non-English speaking then you must ask the hospital if they have or can arrange some translators for you. Until and unless you have very clear communication with your doctor, treatment can be lethal.
  
  
• Certifications: Certification and accreditation by national and international bodies gives the confidence that the hospital follows and maintains a standard in hygiene and patient care. Always select an internationally accredited hospital.
  
  
• Doctor’s qualifications: It’s very important that the doctors are highly qualified and highly experienced. It’s more than welcome if the doctor is trained or has practices in western countries.
  
  
• Hospital Specialty: Every hospital is specializes in an area it’s not worth if you go for kidney treatment in a hospital specialized for bariatric surgery.
  
  
• Mode of payments: Do the hospital accept payment in cash or in electronic form.
  
  
• Testimonials: Seek the testimonials of other foreign patients.
  
  
• Legal issues: Check for any legal issues etc. E.g. in case of surrogacy you may have to know in advance what legal process are involved and do the hospital or clinic provide any assistance with this.
  
  
• Length of Stay: How long are you required to stay and what’s the quality of hospital accommodation? Do hospital allow for stay of someone accompany the patient etc.
  
  
• Success Rate: Compare the success rate of doctor and hospital for the procedure with others in the same or other country.
  
  
• Post treatment care: Are there any follow up treatment, consultation required and is the costs already covered on not.

I hope this will help you and prove to be a better guide in selecting the right destination, hospital and doctors for your medical trip.

In case of any further help, please don’t hesitate to ask.