Ivy Hospital Launches Tricity 1st ‘Dedicated Infectious Diseases Unit’

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Chandigarh 12^th January:- Ivy Hospital, Mohali has today announced to launch the tricity 1^st state-of-art 'Dedicated Infectious Diseases Unit'. The unit will offer treatment of infectious life in dengue, malaria, typhoid, swine flu, hepatitis, UTI, acute gastroenteritis like diarrhoea, dysentery & cholera, tropical fever, pneumonia, sinusitis, meningitis, tuberculosis, bone infections & diabetic foot, fungal infections and HIV medicine. The unit will be headed by Dr. Sachin Verma along with Dr. Neerja Kakkar Gupta, the Sr. Microbiologist.

Talking to media person during a press conference to announce the launch of unit Dr. Sachin Verma, Sr. Consultant, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Ivy Hospital said that infections are one of the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in India and around the world. Hr added that the unit is a high end centre, where all kinds of infections are treated under one roof with latest technologies and APP based treatment protocols. This department will provide treatment of all kinds of complicated infections. It will deal with immunization advice to international travelers and launches various Infection control, Immunization and Antimicrobial stewardship policies. It will be instrumental in developing and implementing Infection Control Strategies in the region also.

Ironically, almost all specialties including Oncology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology and Neurosurgery face complicated infections in their practices. Thus they need expert advice in management of these infections. The hospital acquires infections is another area of concern, where deadly bugs complicate minor and major surgeries and leads to mortality. Therefore prevention and treatment of these infections is challenging.

Dr. Sachin Verma informed that antibiotics are now still regarded as miracle drugs. However the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistant pathogens in health care facilities is due to misuse of antibiotics and poor compliance with recommended infection control practices. According to an estimate more than 50% prescription of antibiotics can be wrong antibiotic, wrong dose or wrong duration. This leads to antibiotic resistance and growth of deadly bugs which are difficult to treat and causes increased mortality.

Dr Kanwaldeep Kaur, Medical Director, Ivy Hospital, Mohali said that we at Ivy, are starting this infectious disease unit to prevent and control of spread of such deadly pathogens to reduce overuse and abuse of antibiotics besides to implement new multidisciplinary programme to ensure the highest standard of quality care in infectious medicine. To run these programme, Ivy has come up with a super-speciality infection disease department which is first of its kind in region.