A two day National Conference on Heart and Diabetes under auspices of ISCDEE & CC began at Hotel Courtyard Marriott Bhopal. Inaugurating the conference Urban Administration & Development Minister Babulal Gaur, said that the medical fraternity should try to provide treatment at economic rates so that all sections of the society can take advantage of it. The doctor should come forward to provide medical services in the rural areas so that the health of the rural people can be improved. He further said people should adopt a healthy life style to prevent themselves from life style diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart attack etc.
Dr. lekha Pathak, Mumbai said that the Doctor should regularly participate in such conferences so that they can abreast themselves with the latest treatment of various diseases and provide benefit to their patients.
Dr. K Venkata Ram, USA said that continuing medical education is an integral part of medical profession and such conferences provide quick information on latest advances in medicine within a short spell of time and such information can never be obtained with internet or reading journals because they are very time consuming.
Dr. PC Manoria Organizing Chairman said that in the current era of competiveness, the health has attained a back seat. Health is Wealth which was widely heard and publicized in past, is becoming evanescent and is transformed in to Wealth is Health.
Dr. B Jankharia, Mumbai in his deliberation on utility of MRI in heart attack said that MRI is very useful and it clearly shows what part of heart is affected and whether there is viable tissue in the injured area which can be revived by angioplasty or bypass surgery.
Dr. Pankaj Manoria Interventional Cardiologist said that a new era of radial angiography and angioplasty for heart attack has started and in comparison to femoral angiograpy, it is associated with minimum or no bleeding and is very convenient to the patient.
Dr. Amit Vora Mumbai gave a talk on rhythm disorder of the heart and sudden cardiac death and said that for prevention and treatment of these diseases, besides drugs, RFA & device like ICD are also utilized.
Dr. Sandeep Julka delivered an interesting talk on recent advances in the management of diabetes with new oral drugs, newer insulin and other newer injectable like exanetide and liraglutide.