THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF NARUVI HOSPITALS
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens We are all nose deep in the construction work that is going on at the site. Everything is moving as scheduled. The rains have been kind so far. About the same time last year, we were struggling to overcome the ground water issue. Most of the hurdles seem to be behind us. I was thinking in my mind as to what has been driving our project, long before the construction is over. And it was precisely what Charles Dickens said. Naruvi Hospitals is a creation and far from a construction. Everyone on the N-team loves Naruvi Hospitals even before the construction is less than half done. I salute everyone on the N-team for their unrelenting hard work, sincerity and dedication. Here is another Naruvi Print, handcrafted in-house and created to convey yet another meaning to our efforts. Enhancing health as a licensee of American medical technology from
Welcome to the Aperture edition. A photograph has dimension and a point of view, but in the end it is a slice of time. A photograph has no before, no after, and nothing outside the bounds of the frame. There is only truth that is seen through the eye of the camera. The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. Andy Warhol
The building has reached the 3rd floor. Activities are falling in place. Everyone working on the project, off or on site, are finding their individual slots in the system. The progress is getting ironed out and things are moving seamlessly. Unfortunately, smooth functioning takes the thrill out of life and deprives the editors of the Naruvi Print of interesting material for another edition. Our Chairman deserves special mention this month. He has completed his Ph.D viva at the Pondicherry Central University in the area of International Business, the topic being Student choices of higher educational institutions - from pre-admission to post-completion. All the members of the N-team state their heartfelt congratulations to our beloved chairman. Interior work on the floors where structural work is complete, has got underway. Our fire fighting contractors have also started work. The interior finishes for the basements, ground and first floor will also start soon. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. Edward Steichen
The prestigious Rajeswari Memorial Fellowship in Public Health was awarded to Mr. Reuben Kuruvilla B.Tech; MPH effective 16/7/18. The fellow works in collaboration with the research group at Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre, Vellore presently. This is under an MoU for academic and educational activities between NH and SNHRC Vellore. The activities of Mr. Kuruvilla are the following: 1. He has developed a research proposal on 'Indoor/outdoor air pollution in rural Vellore in relation to lung morbidities and mapping using GIS. This would be taken up for pursuing funding avenues. continued Essentially what photography is, is life lit up. Sam Abell
2. A review article for submission to a standard journal is at the pre-final draft stage - 'The application of GIS to the study of infectious diseases of public health importance: scope and challenges' under the mentorship of Prof. G. Sridharan. Dean for Research, Naruvi Hospitals. 3. He is now involved in data collection and analysis for a project "Application of GIS in mapping prevalence of Scrub typhus in Vellore District for a three year period". This is under the mentorship of Dr. S. Sathish of SNHRC. I don t trust words. I trust pictures. Gilles Peress 4. In keeping with the spirit of the RMFPH ambit, he has been encouraged to pursue a Ph.D program at the Sri Ramachandra Institute for Higher Education and Research in Public Health. We are happy that he has cleared the entrance examination and is joining the program. His area of research is 'Development of viral diagnostics for Public Health application' under the mentorship of Dr. Padma Srikanth. He has started the process of collecting information for the same.
Imagine the world before 1895, a world with very few of the technologies we consider essential today: the computer, airplane, televisions and consider this: No X- ray machines. Before X-ray machines were invented, broken bones, tumors and the location of bullets were all diagnosed by physical examination and a doctor's best guess. Patients paid the price of these approaches. Then on November 8th of 1895, a German physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen made a remarkable discovery. He took a tube similar to fluorescent light bulbs, removed all the air and filled it with a special gas. I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn t photograph them. Diane Arbus When he passed a high electric voltage through it, the tube gave off a fluorescent glow. Roentgen then covered the tube with heavy black paper and once again passed electricity through it and noticed a barium coated screen across the lab began to glow. continued
He quickly realized his tube was emitting an "invisible light" or ray, and this ray could pass through the heavy paper covering the tube. He continued experiments and discovered these new rays could pass through most substances and would cast shadows of solid objects on pieces of film. He named the new ray X-ray, because in mathematics "X" is used to indicated the unknown quantity. And within a month Roentgen gave his report to the Wurzburg Physical-Medical Society and to physicist friends across Europe. X ray of a rose. By January 1896 the world was gripped by "X-ray mania," and Roentgen was proclaimed the discoverer of a medical miracle. Within a year, X-rays were being used in diagnosis and therapy and were an established part of medicine. Roentgen did not seek patents on his discovery of X-rays, but was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901. Today we take X-rays and more sophisticated imaging systems all for granted. Some of the pioneers in the field died working with X-rays not knowing they were harmful. But their sacrifice some 111 years ago created a technology that is of extreme importance to diagnosis of disease. Click here for detailed article
2013-2014: General discussions about starting a super-speciality hospital in Vellore. Vellore was chosen as the destination because our Chairman belongs there, and he was very keen to serve the local public of Vellore. November 2019: Completion of construction 2014-2016: Internal discussions on the size, scope and goals/objectives of the hospital. 30 th September 2018: 3 rd floor roof slab concrete completed. Floor level drainage work completed in B-2. Tower building has reached the 4 th floor roof slab. May 2016: MoU was signed with Henry Ford Health Systems (HFHS). 14 th July 2017: Bhoomi Pooja 19 th July 2017: Earth work started 6 th January 2018: Raft Concrete of basement started 11 th March 2018: Basement 2 roof concrete started 2 nd May 2018: Basement 1 roof concrete started Enhancing health as a licensee of American medical technology from
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