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Ivy Hospital granted permission for Transplantation of Human Organs from Directorate of Research and Medical Education, Punjab, Chandigarh w.e.f. 21.05.2008.

CCU Inaugurated at Ivy Hospital

Ivy Health Mall gets new physiotherapy unit

Renowned endocrinologist joins Ivy Hospital

India's first Health Mall

Rare breast Surgery Performed by Dr. Vijay Bansal at Ivy Hospital

Rare tongue cancer surgry at Ivy Hospital

"Advanced Dialysis Unit" at Ivy Hospital was inaugurated by Capt. Kawaljit Singh (Cooperation Minister, Punjab) on 2nd February' 2008.

The hospital was inaugurated on 26.11.2007 by Honourable Chief Minister of Punjab S. Parkash Singh Badal.

 

 

CCU Inaugurated at Ivy Hospital

May 24, 2008

 

A state-of-the-art critical care unit was inaugurated on Friday at Ivy Hospital with an aim to augment critical medicare facilities. It is the first of its kind in the region. Prakash P. Mallya, Chairman & Managing Director of Vijaya Bank inaugurated the unit. It is a 14 bedded unit.

 

 

 

 

 

Renowned endocrinologist joins Ivy Hospital

April 27, 2008

 

Dr Gagan Priya, a well known endocrinologist with super specialization from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, has joined Ivy Hospital as Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist.

 

Announcing her appointment today, CEO, Ivy Hospital, Mr. Gurtej Singh said that she had successful stints at AIIMS and SMS Jaipur. Dr. Priya has setup her own Department of Endocrinology at the Ivy Hospital. After doing her super specialization in Endocrinology from AIIMS and MD in medicine from SMS Medical College, Jaipur, Dr. Priya had a brief stint with Fortis Hospital as Senior Medical Officer.

 

 

 

Ivy Health Mall gets new physiotherapy unit

April 13, 2008

 

An advanced physiotherapy centre with state-of-the-art equipment and sophisticated gadgets has been inaugurated at the Ivy Health Mall in Sector 71, Mohali.

 

While announcing the opening of the Chestha Physiotherapy Centre here today, Gurtej Singh CEO of the Health Mall, highlighted the latest techniques that have been employed there to provide services to a growing population of patients with physiological and orthopedic disorders.

 

 

 

 

India's first Health Mall

March 11, 2008                   

Bringing all health-related facilities under one roof, a private-sector speciality hospital on Tuesday commissioned the first-of-its-kind 'health mall' at Mohali town, adjoining Chandigarh. The 190-bed Ivy multi-speciality hospital management claimed that the health mall was the first of its kind in the country.

Ivy hospital and cancer research institute chief executive officer Gurtej Singh said the new health mall would be a composite healthcare services destination with dedicated departments, specialities and clinics owned and operated by highly skilled experts and surgeons from the country and overseas.

Seven specialities, including an advanced urology centre, advanced radiation therapy centre and a highly developed nephrology centre, are part of the health mall. The mall is spread over an area of 130,000-square feet. The hospital management plans to open a few more health malls in other Indian cities soon.

"We will cater to the ever-growing demand of people for better healthcare facilities under one roof. We will have an international help desk for patients from abroad," said Gurtej Singh. He said that Rs 400 million had already been invested in the health mall and the total plan was to invest Rs 1 billion.

In fact, facilities by Delhi's leading RG Stone and Urology Institute ans the Radiation Therapy Services Inc. (USA) at the proposed health mall would be operational by March end. Besides, the hospital has reached an  understanding with renowned surgeons, medical institutes and clinics to offer speciality depatments in Oncology, Dentistry, Pathology, Laparoscopic and General Surgery at the Health Mall. An advanced Nephrology department and Dialysis unit were already functioning successfully from the 190 bedded hospital, Kanwaldeep, Director Health Services informed.

 

 

Rare breast Surgery Performed by Dr. Vijay Bansal at Ivy Hospital

February 21, 2008

Ivy Hospital today performed a rare breast conservative surgery (BCS) upon a 34 year old cancer patient. The 6 hour long surgery performed by Dr. Vijay Bansalremoved the breast cancer while retaining the breast of the patient by implanting tissue from the back with utmost precision. The dexterous task ofClick for larger image preserving the breast in terms of reconstructing the right breast was done skillfully.

Sharing details of the first organ preservation surgery in the region, Dr. Bansal said that though such complex surgeries were being conducted worldwide and in reputed medical institutes in the country, yet North India does not have the right kind of expertise in terms of trained surgeons to conduct organ reconstruction.

 

He said that patients suffering from breast cancer shivered and rejected the whole idea of cancer surgery, which implied breast removal, due to an overwhelming fear of losing the breast. "It's a common syndrome among patients, who are simply bogged down by the sheer thought of Mastectomy or breast removal" said Dr. Bansal.

The patient was then properly counseled to undergo the surgery.

 

 

Advanced dialysis unit set up under Dr. Raka Kaushal at Ivy Hospital

February 2, 2008

Punjab Cooperation minister, Capt. Kanvaljit Singh inaugurated an Advanced Dialysis Unit for ffectively conducting and monitoring the quality of dialysis involved in renal replacement procedure at Ivy Hospital today.

With this, the hospital claims to have become the first hospital in North India to have acquired such an advanced unit, commissioned under Dr. Raka Kaushal, a Nephrologist. Even PGIMER, Chandigarh was not having an advanced machine of this level for handling and monitoring Renal Transplantation procedures and dialysis.

Speaking on the occasion, Capt. Kanwaljit Singh congratulated the hospital team for having made a headstart in renal transplantation treatment, which is a daunting area in healthcare.

 

 

Rare tongue cancer surgery at Ivy Hospital

January 14, 2008

For Amar Das, a poor cancer patient, struggling to make both ends meet, treatment in a private hospital was a luxury. However, thanks to the gesture of good Samaritans and Mohali based Ivy Hospital, he is on his way to recovery following a major surgery here today.

In fact, the rare tongue cancer surgery performed by a team of doctors, led by Dr. Vijay Bansal, at Ivy Hospital and Cancer Research Institute, Mohali, gave a new lease of life to Amar Das, a daily wage worker at a co-operative bank in Ranwa village in Fatehgarh Sahib district.

The complicated six hour operation involved surgical removal of cancer mass and 50 nodes from the upper neck and shoulder region, which could have caused dysfunction in several organs, Dr. Bansal, who was earlier with Tata cancer Hospital, Mumbai, said here today.

 

 

 

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