In
the News
On
the Cover of "Ophthalmology Times"
December 2006
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Ocular Surgery News
OCULAR
SURGERY NEWS INDIA EDITION February
2008
Excerpt from
Article
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Private, public practices face
different challenges
By Matt
Hasson
Evolving
technology, a growing need for
cataract and diabetic
retinopathy treatment and an
emerging interest in elective
procedures mark the unique
challenges that private and
government practices face in
providing appropriate care.
Dr. Nagpal
supports ophthalmologists
practicing privately to create
group practices so as to
increase their benefit from
investments in technology.
“Larger
hospitals with multiple surgeons
should be encouraged in urban
and metro cities,” he said.
“Even in the private sector,
group practice should be
encouraged to reduce the
investment in ever-changing
technology. Individual private
practices should be encouraged
in the rural sector, where the
surgeons do not like to go. The
encouragement to group practices
and private practices in the
rural sector could be in the
form of soft bank loans and or
some direct subsidy in
investment.”
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Rajasthan Ophthalmological Society
Website
Inaugurated by Dr
P N Nagpal in November 2007
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The Tribune, Chandigarh, March 2007
Excerpt from Article
Bring
compassion into profession:
doctor
Tribune News Service
, Chandigarh, March 18
“Commercialisation in the
medical profession has brought
about erosion of human emotions
in the relationship between
doctor and patient, which has
rendered medicos health
providers and patient clients,”
said Dr
P.N. Nagpal, a renowned
ophthalmologist, while
delivering the founder’s day
lecture at the advanced eye
centre at PGIMER here today.
Dr Nagpal
was speaking on the “Declining
medical ethics: what to do?”
Dr Nagpal
has 138 publications to his
credit, including 11 books, and
edited two issues of the
“Ophthalmology Clinics of North
America”. He is also the member
of the advisory committee to the
ECO, the AAO, and the WHO
International.
Expressing concern at the rise
in insensitivity in the
profession,
Dr Nagpal
said the profession had
become a business.
Calling upon the medical
fraternity to be more
compassionate towards patients,
Dr Nagpal said they must follow
four ‘Cs’ - competence, cost
effectiveness, convenience and
care - for the benefit of
patients as well as the
profession.
Earlier, Professor K.K. Talwar,
director, PGIIMER, while
congratulating the faculty of
the department of ophthalmology
for their achievements, stressed
the need for strengthening the
profession.
The fraternity should avoid
commercialisation, strengthen
public sector organisation and
promote group practices, said
the professor.
Prof Amod Gupta, head of the
department, said during the past
43 years the department had
treated over 15 lakh outpatients
and 70,911 inpatients.
The advanced eye centre, which
had already devised novel
strategies for diabetic
retinopathy, ocular
tuberculosis, retinopathy of
prematurity and ocular
infections, would for the first
time in India introduce a
multiplex molecular biologic
diagnostic kit for intraocular
infections form a single drop of
ocular fluid, he added.
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Eye Donation -
Gujarat State
contributes substantially to the
nation
Excerpt from Article , June 2006
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Talking about
the high rate of eye donations in
Gujarat,
Dr Nagpal
said Gujaratis are known for their
benevolence. "Be it Orissa floods or
tsunami in Andaman’s, Gujarat is
always ready with help. This could
be the reason why we see a major
chunk of eyes from this state."
Stressing that more and more people
should come forward and pledge their
eyes, Dr Nagpal said that it was,
however not enough
since after
death the relatives and the state
would have to give their consent in
the matter. "While the State has
given blanket permission, the need
of the hour is to spread awareness
among people that in one death, two
persons get a new lease of life," he
added."
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Indian Express, Ahmedabad 28th
August 2005
Excerpt
from Article
Study finds that children are
most
affected by corneal blindness
"An
Eye Bank Association Study finds
that more than 60 percent of
cases are children below the age
of 12 years.
Express News Service, Ahmedabad
According to the latest findings
of the Eye Bank Association of
India, there are around 10
million blind people in the
country, of which 2 million
suffer from corneal blindness,
with more than 60 per cent of
them being children below the
age of 12. Gujarat alone has
about 40,000 children suffering
from corneal blindness.
Dr. Ashish Nagpal
from the Aso Palov Eye Bank in
Ahmedabad says, “Summer vacation
and Diwali are the periods when
maximum children injure their
cornea.’’
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Original Article available at
Indian Express Online
Article also available online at
Healthlibrary.com
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The Tribune, Chandigarh, July 2004
Excerpt from Article
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Govt ‘must’ give incentives to
pvt doctors
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh,
July 11
“Its just the 10 per cent of
doctors who perhaps indulge in
unethical practices but this
percentage gets blown up and
reflects badly on the entire
profession,’’ said one of the
country’s leading
ophthalmologists,
Dr P.N.
Nagpal, from the Retina
Foundation, Ahmedabad. He
was speaking on the sidelights
of the national seminar on the
FFA at Grewal Eye Institute here
today.
Joined in the discussion by Dr
Amod Gupta, head of the
Department of Ophthalmology, PGI,
experts agreed that the cost of
equipment, coupled with the
technological advancements made
in the field of medicine over
the last century, had compelled
practitioners to charge fees to
meet the expenditure. “In our
country alone there are several
sections of people who belong to
different socio-economic groups
and have different paying
capacity. The infrastructure in
the public sector health centres
is available at the lowest
minimum cost to everyone while
in the private set-ups the doors
are open for all those who can
afford the treatment,’’ said Dr
Gupta.
Pointing out the role of the
government in drafting policies,
Dr Nagpal
said the government must
think about providing incentives
to the group of doctors who
invest together to run a clinic.
“The government must think about
providing some incentives to the
doctors in investing in the
costly machinery so that the
price paid by the patients to
avail the facilities is
lowered,’’ he said.
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