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Summit on-TRIVANDRUM MEDICAL COLLEGE-2020 AND BEYOND-The Role of the Alumni in empowering the students.

TMC Alumni Association invites you to be part of the 15^th Grand Annual Convention and Platinum Jubilee Year Celebration of our Alma mater. The convention will be held on 15^th and 16^th February 2020, at the Diamond Jubilee Alumni Auditorium. 

The 60 Year Get-together of 1959 MBBS Batch was held on 24th November 2019 at Trivandrum Medical College Alumni Diamond Jubilee Auditorium.

The event, aptly named ‘NOSTALGIA 2019’ was attended by over 70 members. The 1959 batch of Trivandrum Medical College is fondly remembered for the initiation of RCC, Neurology, Neonatology, Nephrology and starting the MRCP centre in LRC Library, providing Masterclass series in hard copy and E learning facilities for MRCP and MRCP Super specially in Nephrology. 

World Heart Day (WHD) is a global campaign that takes place on the 29th of September every year. It is the brainchild of World Heart Federation. 

World Heart Day reminds people around the world that Cardiovascular    Diseases (CVD) including heart disease and stroke are the world’s leading cause of death, claiming 17.9 million lives each year. Infact, CVD is responsible for nearly half of all Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) deaths.

So it is the world’s number one killer.

How does it feel to go through Alzheimer’s disease? Can’t say much about that. No one who goes through the syndrome ever comes back to tell us how it all was. All that we know about Alzheimer’s are what people living without it feel about it. While in most diseases the patients speak about what they go through in terms of history and experience, the patient with Alzheimer’s remains outside the medical evaluation loops. A tragedy of sorts.

Existence of life starts with air, water and food. A child comes out from his or her mother’s womb and starts crying as a sign of life. Continuation of life is an art of nature that starts with mother’s milk in all breastfed babies; in all species. In the human species, babies are fully dependent on the mother until one year of age because they start walking only after they are a year old. It is well-proven, beyond any doubt, that up to the first 6 months of their life, babies require only breast milk. After 6 months, complementary feeds start.

July 29 is National ORS day. As we all know oral rehydration therapy has brought a tremendous breakthrough in the treatment of diarrhoea. Before oral rehydration therapy, ADD was the leading cause of infant mortality. But with oral rehydration therapy, there is a significant decrease in death from diarrhoea. Most diarrhoea related death in children are due to dehydration. Worldwide diarrhoea still kills millions of infants annually. Just in India, according to WHO estimations, diarrhoea killed 321 children every day in 2015.

29th July is observed every year as National ORS Day to highlight the importance of ORAL REHYDRATION SALTS (ORS) as a cost-effective method of health intervention. 

Dr M.V. Pillai, renowned cancer specialist, writer and orator received the P Kesavadev Literary Award for his outstanding contribution to Malayalam literature. The award was given away at a function held at Thiruvananthapuram on the occasion of 15th edition of P Kesavadev awards instituted by P Kesavadev Trust. 

Informing someone of undesirable news is always a hurdle. It is even harder in a hospital environment involving sick patients and their attendants. Below we discuss critical scenarios and certain approaches one must adopt inorder to avoid any retaliation towards bad news.