A doctor’s tale
Dr Vaishali
Dr Vaishali Chaudhary was born in
Sassoon General Hospital to a middle-class family 51 years ago. She considers herself fortunate to have been able to complete her graduation and post-graduation at Sassoon General Hospital itself.
Thereafter, she went to become a gynaecologist, and by doing so, she could serve women in the same labour room where she was born. “My mother wanted me to become a gynaecologist as she had suffered during her delivery and she wanted me to help women in distress,” says Chaudhary.
She realized during her post-graduation days that she had a passion for endocrinology and reproductive medicine and so after finishing her MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, she did her PhD in Female Infertility under the guidance of Dr Ian Cooke from
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday lauded the contribution of BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital in Pune during the COVID-19 pandemic and said the institution should continue to produce good doctors for society and maintain high standards of treatment
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PUNE: Careful tracking of blood creatinine levels in patients battling post-Covid mucormycosis can ease the pain of daily medication costs from Rs 35,000 to Rs 350, treating surgeons have found.
While the liposomal form of amphotericin injections a key drug against the infection is prohibitively priced, the conventional form of the same drug costs 100 times less but needs to be administered carefully, with a blood test every alternate day to rule out drug toxicity in the kidneys.
If creatinine levels are raised, the 21-day course of the drug can be finished with two to three “pit stops” also called “amphotericin holidays” to allow the body to normalise. Creatinine is a waste product that’s channeled out of the system via the kidneys.
Pune s Sassoon hospital performed 125 black fungus surgeries in April and May
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