Dr. K. N. Panicker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Chair of Indian Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from September 24- 26, 2018, on an invitation from NTD NGO Network to participate in the 9th NTD NGO Network (NNN) Annual Conference.
A donor-recipient meet, involving families of organ-donors and recipients of the organ donation and their families, was conducted at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on September 17, 2018. The. . .
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center at Kochi campus provided medical relief camps to the flood-affected areas in Kuttanadu of Alappuzha district, Kerala, on August 1, 2018.
The Department of Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, organized “Amrita Heart Failure Update” – a practical guide to the management of heart failure on July 22, 2018.
Dr. Prem Nair, Medical Director at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre at Kochi campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, gave an invited talk at the Harvard Institute of Global Health, USA, on June 27, 2018.
The 19-year-old patient from Jharkhand, leading an isolated life for the last ten years, underwent 14-hour surgery at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. Surgeons reconstructed his upper jaw using his leg bone. This is the largest ever reported upper jaw tumor of its kind. The hospital performed the surgery free of cost.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center, Kochi, were presented with the Excellence awards by the Honorable Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan, at the World Environment Day celebrations held at the Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum, on June 7, 2018.
Dr. Pillay V. V., Head of Department, Department of Forensic Medicine, Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi, attended the 12th Annual National Conference of the Indian Society of Toxicology ( TOXOCON -12), which was held at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, from April 6 to 7, 2018.
A 21-year-old patient from Yemen, Islam Hussein, who lost both his hands and eyesight in a bomb blast, has regained vision in one eye after successfully undergoing a corneal transplant at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.
Dr. Vidya Jha, 2nd Semester MHA student at Amrita, received first prize for her paper (oral) presentation at SYMHEALTH 2018 – National Conference on Interdisciplinary Approach to Healthcare, held at Symbiosis International University, Pune, from May 3- 5, 2018.
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