College Magazine 1978 - Administrators and Editor

                                                          Dean

                                                 Editor with Dean

                                                        Chairman

                                                        Gen Sec
                                                              
                                                                                  - To be continued                     

Legend for the Cartoon - 1978 College Magazine

Excerpts from ‘Legend for the cartoon in the fly leaf’ of our College Magazine 1978:

‘The first block houses eagles over its terrace and hunting is strictly prohibited here. Trespassers and omelette-lovers will be prosecuted. You get a free view of any play or dance in the Gandhi Museum stadium,’

‘The extension counter of IOB, sees a lot of turnover and the Madurai Medico has always a savings account of Rs.5 only, and this is one of the few banks not touched by robbers.’

‘In the library straining the brains of our students, some students rest their brains and they sleep over the books. It is also a large recreation room in between classes; there are as many mosquitoes as there are books but fewer girls at any time of the day.’

‘The third block adjacent to the L.H. houses the animal house above the III floor, which hosts no pet animals. But what thrives there has a veterinary officer to take care of them. But it will be surprising that many students have not known its existence and fewer have crossed its entrance. When research abounds in our college in future we might have monkeys here but never an elephant. They are becoming extinct, you know.’

        - Cartoon and content by Sridhar. 

                                                             - To be continued.

College Magazine 1978 - Designs and Editors

The other day our College magazine of 1978 was traced out and found to be replete with our batch-mates' articles and pictures. As each of its pages were opened past memories became the recent memories making live the past! Here are some pictures from it to make us feel younger once more. Feel the past as present!

Front Cover
 

Inner Design

 

Dedication

 

                                                                                 - To be continued.
                                                                                      

About Intra-nasal Swine Flu vaccine

As you know a painless vaccine for the prevention of Swine Flu by intra-nasal route has been introduced in India and approved by Tamil Nadu Government. An excerpt from an article about it has been given below:
‘The vaccine is approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for usage by any individual above three years of age, except pregnant women’

Read more here about the vaccine in this article:
Intra-nasal Vaccine for the prevention of H1N1

Our Batch-mate and Rangoli!

All of us are reminded about one of our batch-mates whenever we see a Rangoli displayed. You find below his own portrait shaped by himself and also an excerpt from his letter about his other arts.

“The Line Drawing that I have mailed to you is a photoshoped image of my photograph; it’s not my original Work. I have downloaded many Photoshop Apps. from Apple Store. I transform my photographs using those Apps. in my iPhone itself and I mail them through my iPhone. I have given-up doing Rangoli, Painting and Drift Wood Sculpture, long back. Even my wife and my son do not believe if I show them my original works done in our college days! I resort to digital technology in my Artistic works. In recent days I'm interested in Digital Arts. I do have softwares for Real Time Painting and also for Sculpting in cyberspace.”
Passionately yours,
MD.Singam.

2010 Batch Meet Games

Game Participants

Batch-mates cheering Participants
 

Demise of Batch-mate

It is informed hereby that our batch-mate, Dr.Murugadas expired on 31st October 2010.

'Nallamaana Thamilagam' to prevent NCDs!

Non-Communicable diseases have now become more common. A programme called 'Nallamaana Thamilagam' will be initiated by Tamil Nadu Government in the first week of November 2010. With it, it is aimed to improve the health status if rural population in Tamil Nadu by reducing the risk factors associated with Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). It is also hoped that it will increase the awareness about the risk factors and adopting healthy lifestyles to prevent the NCDs.
                         "Enn Score Enna?!"
                         (Media advt. slogan)

Mosquitoes to check Dengue and Malaria!

News from a daily:
For tackling Dengue menace, Genetically modified male mosquitoes (GMMs) are to be released in our environment.

Excerpt::
"The GMMs will copulate with the female (Aedes and Anopheles) mosquitoes and cause the larvae to die due to the presence of killer genes. This will make them(Aedes and Anopheles) refractory to transmit Dengue virus and Plasmodium," said Dr.B.K.Tyagi, Director in-charge, Centre for Research in Medical Entomology (CRME), at Madurai.

Note this:
Malaysian Government would be releasing about 2000 GMMs this year. Read more about it here:
Malaysia to carry out GM mosquito trial
Malaysia adopts GM mosquito

Our College Medical Exhibition

Here is a news from our College published in a daily:

Madurai Medical College medical exhibition will be held from 12th to 17th November, 2010. It is named as "Syncytium." Latest techniques and trends in Medicine and Surgery are to be highlighted in it. It is conducted after a gap of six years.

Identify our College portion!

Can you identify the portion of our Madurai Medical College and the place from which the photo has been clicked? Reply in 'Comments' section.

News about vaccine against Pneumococcus

Read news about the launch of a new vaccine to prevent Pneumococcal diseases in infants and children.

Excerpt:
‘The World Health Organization (WHO) has sought the inclusion of Prevenar in the National Immunization Programmes of developing countries as a high priority especially where under five mortality is more than 50 per 1,000 live births or where more than 50,000 children die annually. In India’

Click here to read all the news --> Pneumococcal vaccine

Batch-mates promoted!

Congratulations to our Batch-mates who have been now promoted as Joint Directors of Medical & Rural Health Services in the Tamilnadu Government Medical Services! They are:
Dr.Azikannammal
Dr.Raju
Dr.Gnanavel

A batch meet organizer's letter

Read here a response mail from Dr.Ramesh on behalf of the Organizers of the Batch Meet:

Dear friends
Thanks for all your mails appreciating our efforts. But our efforts would have been in vain, but for all your active participation, enthusiasm and tolerance
I am happy to be a part of the organizing team of the Mahabalipuram meet. . I thank all the participants and their family on behalf of the organizing team
Dr.Ramesh

Appreciation from our Batch-mate afar!

Read here an appreciation mail from our Batch-mate afar:

Dear All,

Many have written poems regarding our batch meet at Mahabalipuram. I am not expert but only one word is enough simply "SUPERB". All the credits go to organizers especially for keeping all of us busy and tightly engaged from the time we meet till we all leave. So I thank all of our batch mates to be so kind and loving to me still though I have not met for 16 years and many after 20 years. But still I miss so many of closemates like Banu Sirajiya, Dilshad, Rukmini, Parvathavardini, Manjula, Lalitha, Parvathi, Gomathi, Jebamani, Jaffar, Kumar, Usha, etc. I wish they all have to take interest to come and meet us.

I thank personally Dr.TSC, Manicks, Jeyaram, Ramesh, Lakshmi, Selvamani and Balanagammal to keep the stay pleasant in Chariot Beach Resort.
 
With love to all
Avanthi

Appreciation by Batch-mate's Spouse

Dear all,
           I’m Dr.Subbulakshmi (Padma to Baloo's friends). 
The two days batch meet was very nice and the most striking feature which i  noticed was  the equal enthusiasm, freedom, cheerfulness and happiness among the girls of your batch which  I think would not be there in any batch, and which made me give this mail and the main reason which makes me attend the meet..    
Hats off to madurai medicos 1973.
                                                            With regards
                                                          Dr. Subbulakshmi
                                                        W/O Dr. N. Balasubramanian                                            

1973 Batch meet - 2010 at Maamallapuram

                                                  1973 Batch meet - 2010
 

                                                Avid participants looking on

                                
                                                   Batch meet organizers

Invitation card of Batch Meet 2010

Emblem
 

Invitation card

Birth of the blog - Healers' Paradise!

Today this blog, Healers' Paradise has been started. It is the unique and exclusive blog for sharing the experience, expertise, thoughts, views and feelings between all of us. It is dedicated today, 18th September 2010 for the service of 1973 Batch-mates of Madurai Medical College, Madurai!