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DNA -Ahmedabad 24th October 2008
Eye Donation - An Eye Opener
Times Of India 20th August 2008
Arogya- Seminars on Health including Diabetic Retinopathy
Patrika Indore 27 December 2009
On the Cover of "Ophthalmology Times" December 2006
- Ocular Surgery News
OCULAR SURGERY NEWS INDIA EDITION February 2008
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- " Private, public practices face different challenges
By Matt HassonEvolving 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.”
Rajasthan Ophthalmological Society Website
Inaugurated by Dr P N Nagpal in November 2007
The Tribune, Chandigarh, March 2007
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- 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
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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."
Indian Express, Ahmedabad 28th August 2005
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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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- The Tribune, Chandigarh, July 2004
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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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