Memorial service for Ms. Champa Rani

There was a memorial service for Ms. Champa Rani on the 31st of March 2011. Family was in attendance. It was a moving and emotional time for all. Champa was dearly loved and an exemplary person in all aspects of her life. The hospital will initiate an award in her memory called the Champa Rani memorial award for the ideal employee, so her memory is perpetuated for the person that she was. A fund will also be started to educate a girl every year in her memory.

Thanks for the equipement

A couple from Chennai brought their eleventh month girl child cyanosed. The child had been unwell for a few days and had not been feeding. They spoon fed her horlicks after which she became very sick. She had aspirated and was brought with severe respiratory distress. She had a background bilateral pneumonia. Initial improvement led to later deterioration and she had a respiratory arrest from which she was resuscitated and then ventilated. She was later transferred to CMC Ludhiana via our ventilated ambulance. This was a working run of all our recently donated equipment saving this girls life. Thanks all of you who played a part in this! The child is getting better now, from what we hear.

Vacations

Just back after a break for three weeks. This was welcome and refreshing. There has been quite a bit of snow this year and it is still cold. Hospital attendance has dropped, for which we are grateful! Look forward to more regular posts.

Demise of Ms. Champa Rani

We are devastated by the tragic demise of Ms. Champa Rani, our pharmacist for the past nineteen years. She passed away on the 14th of December with a dissecting aortic aneurysm that dissected her coronaries. Please do keep the family in prayer.

Jubilee a grand success

The Platinum jubilee marking 75 years of service of the Lady Willingdon Hospital Manali was a mega event and a huge success. Thanks to the tireless work of our dedicated staff, all went absolutely flawlessly, including a very well choreographed one hour long cultural program. The retired and current staff who had worked more than twenty years were honoured by the MLA Shri Gobind Thakur. The SDM and BMO Naggar block spoke at the function, praising the work we have done and have been doing here.

See the pictures on facebook page manalihospital.

 

PCNL done in Manali

Dr. Tara Chand Sharma performed two PCNLs in manali succesfully. Patients are doing well. We  hope to offer this soon here, which will be a boon to the patients.

Whipples surgery done in Manali

A fifty year old had come with obstructive jaundice and ct had showed a 4 cm mass in the head of the pancreas that looked unresectable. She was planned for a hepaticojejunostomy or diversion. On table her lesion was mobile, so it was decided to resect it. A Whipples pylorus sparing duodenectomy was done and she stood the procedure well and was discharged on the 9th postoperative day. Her resection margins were clear. This is the first time a Whipples procedure has been successfully done here.