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Respected Prof.J.A.K. Tareen,, the Vice Chancellor of Pondicherry University and our Chief Guest, Prof. Vinod Kumar Ramteke,, the Ag. Medical Superintendent, Prof.K.S. Reddy, the Dean, Prof. Ramachandra Rao,, the Staff Advisor to students, Mr. Kunjan Kumar,, President of JIPMER Students Association, Outgoing Graduates and their proud Parents, Distinguished Guests, Faculty, Staff and Students, Members of Print & Electronic Media, Ladies & Gentlemen,
I extend a warm welcome to all of you.
We are all extremely happy that we have Prof. Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen, Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University & Member of University Grants Commision, with us today as our Chief Guest. Prof. Tareen is a native of Mysore in Karnataka, holds M.Sc. in Geology, Ph.D. in Experimental Mineralogy and Doctor of Science in Solid State Chemistry. He served in the University of Mysore for 33 years in various capacities and later appointed as Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University where he had the challenging task of restoring the academics of the militancy-stricken university which was on the verge of collapse, and bringing it on the national map. He accomplished this challenge in a very short span of time and the University emerged as `A’ grade University under his dynamic leadership. He has also served as CEO of South Asia Foundation where he actively involved himself in various welfare measures for the society. He has been instrumental in popularizing pre-primary education in rural areas. An outstanding researcher and an able administrator, he has won various awards including National Mineral Award of Govt. of India in 1996. We are all honoured by his presence.
Now, I would like to present a brief introduction about this Institute followed by the annual report for 2007 .
Established in the year 1956, JIPMER has grown up as one of the premier institutions over the years and is still marching ahead to reach greater heights in medical education & research, and health care. The high standard of education both at undergraduate and postgraduate level has always been maintained and every effort is taken to improve it further.
Apart from the undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses, the Institute also conducts post doctoral courses like M.Ch. in Urology & CTVS, DM (Cardiology) and paramedical courses such as M.Sc. (Medical Biochemistry), B.Sc. (Medical Laboratory Technology) B.Sc. (Nursing), B.M.R.Sc. etc. and short term Medical Record Technician training course. Besides, the Institute also offers Ph.D. programme in Para-clinical departments like Anatomy, Microbiology, Physiology, Pharmacology etc. All these courses are affiliated to Pondicherry University and admissions to these courses are made based on merit in the entrance examinations which are conducted by this Institute.
The Institute has an attached hospital with 1050 beds catering to the healthcare of not only the people of Puducherry but also the neighbouring Tamil Nadu and even Andra Pradesh, Kerala and other States. On an average, about 5000 patients are attending the OPDs and the bed occupancy rate is always more than 100% which speak of the quality of medical care offered in our hospital. Lot of new projects such as a 360 bedded Super Speciality Block, a Trauma Care Centre, A Burns Unit are coming up and a few more like Maternity & Child Health Block, Basic Sciences Block are in the pipeline with which we would be in a better position to serve the people and train our students.
Now, I would like to present a brief report on the performance of our Institute in the year 2007:
Academic Activities & Achievements by students
During the year 2007, 255 students were admitted altogether in all courses and as on date our students strength is 828.
The pass percentage in MBBS is 82%, PG courses 91.89% and rest of the courses, it is 100%.
Following are some of the achievements by our students during last year:-
Our students excelled in co-curricular activities as well. The annual college festival, ‘Spandan’ was conducted with usual grandeur which evoked good response from other colleges all over the country. Around 50 colleges participated in all the sports, literary and cultural competitions of this gala event. JIPMER Men’s Badminton team secured first place in this Inter-Medical Collegiate Tournament conducted at all India level while Men’s Hockey team secured Second place. JIPMER Women’s Basketball team and Men’s Football team emerged as Winners in the Inter-collegiate Tournament conducted by Pondicherry University.
JIPMER has been chosen as one of the study centres for Diploma in Hearing, Language and Speech (DHLS) being conducted by AII India Institute of Speech & Hearing, Mysore, through virtual class room mode. Other study centres are MAMC, Delhi, AIIPMR, Mumbai and RIMS, Imphal. Presently, 16 candidates are undergoing this course in the Department of ENT.
Another new course namely Pre-hospital Trauma Technician Course has been started from last year with a view to have trained manpower to properly handle and transport the accident victims from accident site to hospital.
Admission to MBBS course under All India Quota through video conferencing was taken up as a pilot project and completed successfully.
Achievements of faculty
1. Dr. K.S.V.K. Subba Rao, Director, was one of the Indian delegates sent by Ministry of Health & F.W. Govt. of India, to attend the Regional Patient Safety Workshop on “Clean Care is Safer Care” held at Bangkok in June 2007.
2. Dr. Ashok Kumar Das, Medical Superintendent, has been elected as National Dean of Indian College of Physicians.
3. Prof. S. Badrinath, Project Coordinator & Chairman of the Technical Committee constituted by Ministry of Health, has completed vetting of specifications of high end equipments to 13 medical institutions in the country under the PMSSY programme.
4. Dr. Vinod Kumar Ramteke, Director-Prof. & HOD of Surgery has been appointed as Expert Advisor for UPSC & Haryana Public Service Commission.
5. Prof S.C. Parija, Director–Prof. & HOD of Microbiology, has been conferred with Fellow of Royal College of Pathologist by the Royal College of Pathologists, London, in recognition of his immense contributions to the field of Medical Microbiology. He shall be receiving the Fellowship during the convocation of the Royal College of Pathologists to be held at London in October 2008. He has been conferred the most prestigious Prof.PN Chutani Oration Award 2007 of National Academy of Medical Sciences. He has become the President of Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology.
6. Dr. C. Adithan, Director-Professor & Head of the Department of Pharmacology, was nominated as a member of the Governing Body and Scientific Advisory Board of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi. He participated as a member of the Indian delegation of Scientists in the Joint Working Group meeting of ICMR-INSERM at Paris, France in June 07. He was appointed as the Chairman of Expert Group in ICMR to review the functioning of National Informatics Centre with regard to Bio-medical information. Dr. Adithan was also nominated as a member of Programme Advisory Committee on Health Sciences of the Department of Sciences & Technology. Dr. Adithan acted as coordinator of the Indo-French symposium on Pharmacogenomics held at Cochin in November’07 which was attended by senior scientists from India and foreign countries. He delivered the presidential address during the 40th Annual Conference of Indian Pharmacological Society at Punjab in November’07.
7. Dr. Karoon Agrawal, Professor & HOD of Plastic Surgery, is the President-elect for 2007-08 of Indian Society of Cleft Lip Palate & Craniofacial Anomalies. He is also the President-elect of National Academy of Burns-India for 2008-09.
8. Dr. A. Bhupathy, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, was awarded as Best Medical Officer by Govt. of Puducherry for his contribution in sterilization services.
9. Dr. Vikram Kate, Prof. of Surgery, was awarded the fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of Ediburgh in April’07.
10. Dr. Sunil Narayan, Prof. & HOD of Neurology, was awarded Commonwealth Split-site Doctoral Scholarship at the Institute of Ageing & Health, University of Newcastle. He was also awarded Chikitsa Ratna by Delhi based forum namely International Study Circle.
11. Dr. Gitanjali, Professor of Pharmacology, attended the meeting on ‘Role of education in rational use of medicines’ conducted by WHO SEARO at Bangkok in December’07.
12. Dr. Raveendran, Professor of Pharmacology, attended the 6th World Congress on “Alternatives and use of animals in the life sciences’ held at Tokyo in August’07. He also chaired a session in that Congress.
13. Dr. Mariette D’Souza, Professor of Dermatology & STD, attended the 2nd Conference of Asian Society for Pigment Cell Research held at Singapore in July’07.
14. Dr. G.K. Pal, Professor of Physiology, received Dr. A. Namasivayam Award from Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists for his contribution in Neurophysiology. He has also received A.V. Tilak Parvathy Devi Research Prize from Association of Physiologists and Pharmacologists of India for best research publication in Neuroendocrinology.
15. Dr. Lata Chatuvedula, Prof. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, won Dr. C.S. Dawn prize for best paper presented in the 50th All India Conference of Obstetrics & Gynaecoloy at Kolkata in January’07.
16. Dr. Vishnu Bhat, Director-Professor of Paediatrics edited a book on “Protein Energy Malnutrition”.
Besides the above, our faculty and students have attended 118 conferences and workshops within the country during last year and presented 72 research papers. Also, 152 papers have been published in various national and international journals. 62 research projects funded by WHO, ICMR, DST and other agencies have been undertaken in various departments of our Institute.
Conferences/Workshops/CMEs
The following workshops/CMEs were conducted at JIPMER during last year:
The aim of this workshop was to train the participants with basic knowledge and skills needed for establishing a pharmacogenomic laboratory and carrying out research. The department also conducted ` Pharmacovigilance Awareness Programme’ for senior doctors, residents, interns and nurses from 26th to 28th June’07.
Hospital Services
Our hospital continues to provide quality treatment to all patients in a clean environment. The OPD attendance has shown an increase of 4% over the previous year while it is 9% with regard to in-patients treated. A total number of 12,69,201 patients were treated in the OPDs and the number of in-patients treated was 56,210. Special Clinics have recorded an attendance of 2,28,999 and the attendance in Emergency Medical Services was 99,208. 12,950 deliveries were conducted and 36,876 surgeries were performed during the year.
On an average, 4285 patients attended the OPDs every day and the bed occupancy rate was 100.5% throughout the year.
Treatment is rendered totally free of cost to all the poor patients while those who opt for special wards are nominally charged. Even expensive open heart surgeries, pace maker implantations, angioplasty and other cardio vascular interventional procedures are done free of cost to the poor patients. Availability of all essential drugs was ensured throughout the year. JIPMER Blood Bank has conducted 51 blood donation camps during the year.
The Department of Cardiology is the Largest Centre for implantation of permanent pacemakers in the whole of South India. Till date, 2254 permanent pacemakers have been implanted by the department mostly on poor patients from rural areas. The Department of Cardiology in JIPEMR is the only one in this part of the country to start Radio Frequency Ablations which is one of the most sophisticated methods of treating Cardiac Arrhythmias.
A new OPD for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation has been started and functioning from May 2007.
The budget allocation for the year 2007-08 was Rs.160 crores including 87 crores for capital works. Out of the sanctioned staff strength of 3007, 2354 staff are on roll at present. 14 new faculty members have joined this Institute last year, 10 of them on regular basis and 4 are on contract.
New facilities
With all these, there will be a major expansion which will result in not only providing high quality medicare to poor patients but also will increase the number of seats in both PG & UG courses.
Several costly hi-tech equipments were procured last year. Some of them are -
Dignitaries visited:
Acknowledgements:
I take this opportunity to convey my hearty congratulatons to all the outgoing batch of students, and I wish them all the best for their bright future.
I express my sincere thanks to our Chief Guest, Prof. Tareen Saheb.
I would like to express my thanks to all my teaching, non-teaching, technical, nursing and ministerial staff, and students for their cooperation in carrying on the day-to-day activities of our hospital.
I would like to thank the officers of Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and F.W., New Delhi, for their constant guidance and support.
I thank the Vice Chancellor of Pondicherry University and other staff members of the University for their continued support.
I would also thank the officials of CPWD, PAO, and various authorities in the Govt. of Pondicherry for all their assistance.
I would like to place on record my appreciation of the services of the staff members who have superannuated during the year.
Last but not the least, I would also like to thank the members of the Print & Electronic Media who render a nice coverage to all our programs and events.
I would like to conclude with a quote from Bernard Russell,
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind”
Thank you all,
Jai Hind.
2nd February 2008 PROF. K.S.V.K. SUBBA RAO
DIRECTOR