IDSP and Doctors' role in it

If every Doctor knows about this IDSP and follows its guidelines, Dengue, and all other infectious diseases with the Non-Communicable diseases also, could be effectively prevented and eliminated. Read about it here.

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) is the component of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) of India. This programme was started in November 2004. Under this programme the disease case detection at all levels is simpler by using simpler case definitions.With it, diseases incidence data can be retrieved on all levels from Primary Health centre areas to all India level through District and State levels.

Objectives of IDSP:

1) District-based surveillance for Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases.

2) Integration of all existing surveillance programmes.

3) Forecasting of any impending epidemic.

4) Analyzing data and planning for control or eradication of Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases.

   

Uses of IDSP:

1) Linking all health systems - Primary, Secondary, Tertiary care institutions and Private institutions provides high quality IDSP data collection.

2) Informing the immediately superior health personnel avoids the delay in receiving orders from higher authourities for early action to prevent effectively any impending epidemic and thereby for the prevention of resultant morbidity and mortality in the area concerned. 

3) Instant retrieval of surveillance data by Central Government health authourities through the website of IDSP portal for analyzing the health problems in States. This avoids the delay in getting reports from the concerned States.  

   

Expected role of Hospital Doctors in IDSP:

1) Doctors must write provisional diagnosis legibly in the OPD register.

2) They should report about the suspected cases to District Surveillance Officer (Deputy Director of Health Services) over phone; they should also write the addresses of such cases in OPD register. 

3) Doctors should refer such suspected cases to laboratory for the relevant investigations.

Courtesy: Dr.S.Balasubramanian M.B.,B.S., D.P.H.

Batch-mate receiving Best Doctor Award

Our Batch-mate, Dr.T.S.Chandrasekar has received the Best Doctor Award from Tamil Nadu Government for his outstanding services to the Differently Abled Persons, on Independence Day of this year, 2012:

Editor in Poet's Valley

Read here the lines of our batch-mate, Dr.N.Sridhar, the editor of our College Magazine, 1978:

 

Courtesy: Madurai Medical College 1978 College Magazine Editors

Our College Surgeons' views

View here the photos of our college days teaching faculties of our college:

                          Dr.Andappan, Chief, Thoracic Surgery

Courtesy: A.Anandi

Dr.Sathiyavan, Chief, Surgery

(and our batch-mate, Dr.Janardhanan)

Courtesy: 'Madurai Medicos'

Find our batch-mate in this photo

Identify our batch-mate/s here in this photo. The audience seen here in this photo were clicked during the Silver Jubilee Meet of the First Fifty Madurai Medicos belonging to 1954 batch, that was conducted in 1979. (Click on the photo to see it in a larger size).

One of our batch-mates is Dr.Jaffar Ali Shaikh MRCP (UK), DCH (Lond), FAAP (US). Then, could you find others, seated beside and behind him? Reply by clicking on 'comments' seen below.

Courtesy: 'Madurai Medicos'

Identifying our College Seniors

Batch-mates, without our Seniors we could not have been formed or carved as efficient Medical graduates out of our College. We got their guidance in all, whether they were a Hosteler or a Day scholar. Here let us identify our Seniors belonging to the 1970 batch of our Medical College, as they were seen in the College days (click on to view the photo in a larger size):

Poet's Valley - from 1978 College Magazine

Again from our batch-mates' production, 1978 Madurai Medical College Magazine:
Read here the lines on Nature seen around atop the hostel, on that cool morning!

                                                               - :)