Rare Recognition For Sree Chitra In Internal Organ Care.
The ICMR, which is establishing ten centers of advanced analysis and excellence within the country, in areas like cancer, diabetology, cardiology, psychological state, pollution, etc., has given approval to SCTIMST to line up a ‘CARE center for a medical specialty in heart failure’ at the institute.
The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has been granted the ‘center for advanced analysis and excellence’ standing by the Indian Council for Medical analysis (ICMR).
The ICMR, which is establishing ten centers of advanced analysis and excellence within the country, in areas like cancer, diabetology, cardiology, psychological state, pollution, etc., has given approval to SCTIMST to line up a ‘CARE center for a medical specialty in heart failure’ at the institute.
“The approval is to ascertain a complicated center for analysis within the field of cardiopathy, that is AN rising downside within the country. The fatality rate of internal organ diseases, forty fifths in 3 years, is on top of several common cancers,’’ same Dr. S Harikrishnan, academic of medical specialty.
To establish the center of excellence, ICMR can give Rs 5crore for the following 5 years. SCTIMST beneath Dr. Harikrishnan has revealed the info from Trivandrum cardiopathy's written record, which is currently established as a cohort into its fifth year. this can be the sole cardiopathy cohort in India.
As a part of the center of excellence and analysis in SCTIMST, the planned activities area unit to develop national info of cardiopathy, to ascertain a biobank of cardiopathy patients to check genetic, metabolomics, and proteomic markers of health outcomes in cardiopathy patients, same Dr. Harikrishnan.
It would additionally study the microeconomic and psychosocial impact of cardiopathy and to develop quality improvement initiative of task sharing and m-health (mobile phone-based) interventions by trained nurses and family caregivers in up the follow of evidence-based take care of the management of heart failure in India, he added.
It would additionally develop point-of-care (POC) device systems with the assistance of the medical technology wing of SCTIMST to help the management of patients with cardiopathy.
“This is the recognition of the nice work done by Sree Chitra within the field of heart diseases. This center of excellence can pave the means for testing treatment modifications suited to India and newer devices within the field of cardiopathy,” same Dr. Asha Kishore, SCTIMST director.