New Delhi: IIT Hyderabad has collaborated with Continental Hospital to arrange regular visits of consultants in several specialisations. IIT Hyderabad has already built a permanent space for its primary health care clinic at the G+1 building with the support from JICA, Japan.
Dr. T Gurunath Reddy, the Founder and Chairman, Continental Hospitals inaugurated the primary healthcare centre at IIT Hyderabad. He was the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony. The other eminent guests included Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman, BoG, IIT Hyderabad and Professor BS Murty Garu, the Director.
Highlights: An MoU is signed between IITH and Continental hospitals to extend diagnostic and other health care services at the Center. pic.twitter.com/N4ggFJHyP7
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The existing healthcare facility of the institute will be shifted to its new premises during the next month. The institute is also planning to set up a primary diagnostic facility, in support of JCI and NABh accredited Continental Hospitals in its new facility.
“We will not only collaborate with Continental Hospitals for setting up the basic diagnostic facilities at IITH but also would like this to be extended to teleconsulting from Continental experts in various specialisations for better healthcare of the IITH fraternity”, as stated by Professor BS Murthy regarding the collaboration.
In the meantime, the institute also managed to develop a portable, cost-effective, lo T-enabled ventilator powered by Lithium ion batteries. As per the official statement, the ventilator is now available for the public. Telangana and Puducheryy Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan launched the smart ventilator called ‘Jeevan Lite’ on Thursday, March 24, 2022. While the regular imported ventilator costs INR 10-15 lakhs per unit, each unit of this new one costs INR 4 lakhs.
About IIT Hyderabad
IIT Hyderabad ranks in the 8th position in the Engineering category by the NIRF. It includes more than 2600 students, 220 faculty members, and has 40 patents filed. It is one of the very few IITs to have been sanctioned Research Park by the Indian Government. IIT-H offers more than 50 programmes via its 17 academic departments. The major subjects are Engineering, Sciences, Liberal Arts, Design and Management.
Its programmes include 11BTech, 1 BDS, 3 MSc, 18 MTech, 1 MDes, 1 MA and 15 PhDs. BTech is its flagship programme for which candidates are required to appear for the JEE Advanced exam.
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