Few glimpses of a campaign by M V Hospital for Diabetes, under the guidance of Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, to create awareness on General Wellbeing for public on 25 June 2023 at Nageswara Rao Park, Mylapore.
The program included general health check-up and Yoga sessions for public. from 6:00 – 8:00 AM.
Mr. Erode Mahesh, Chief Guest also performed yoga along with the participants.
“Yoga postures done with full awareness provides a gentle massage to all the internal organs, and leads you to a relaxed state of mind.”
Few glimpses of M V Hospital for Diabetes General Wellbeing campaign for public on 25 June 2023 at Anna Park, Royapuram.
To create awareness among public we included general health check-up and Yoga sessions for public from 6:00 – 8:00 AM, under the guidance of Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, our MD & Head & Chief Diabetologist.
All the participants performed yoga. The Directors of M V Hospital for Diabetes (Mr. Arun Viswanathan, Mrs. Meena Vijay, Mrs. Vrinda Arun) participated in the Event. Dr. Prashanth Arun, Consultant Diabetologist M V Hospital for Diabetes gave a small awareness talk and spoke to the participants to clear their queries.
Yoga helps in maintaining good mental and physical health. Yoga also teaches you to lead your life in discipline.
Chennai: The new mobile ap- plication launched by the MV hospital for diabetes and Prof M Viswanathan diabetes re- search centre, Royapuram, will allow people to connect with experts on queries relat- ed to diabetic foot and dia- betes.
The app, MV DIABET, available on Play Store, was launched by the hospital on Saturday. Chief diabetologist Dr Vijay Vishwanathan said the app is connected to a What- sApp number and a multi-dis- ciplinary team at the hospital will give an opinion on diabet- ic foot and diabetes.
Patients with diabetes have some form of nerve dam- age or diabetic neuropathy, where uncontrolled high blood sugar levels damage the walls of tiny blood vessels that supply the nerves, espe- cially in the legs.
This can lead to symptoms such as loss of sensation and means patients feel little pain, so scratches can go unnoticed and become infected, he said on the sidelines of the 37th Prof M Viswanathan DRC Gold Medal Oration.
MV Diabetes organized a 3 Day campaign to promote awareness on Diabetic Kidney Disease on the occasion of World Kidney Day 2023.
We offered special discounts on Kidney filtration test and consultation. MV Diabetes Diet Department reiterated the importance of Healthy Diet and display/ education of tasty diet options for people with Diabetes & kidney disease for 3 days.
We organized an FB live Event on “Latest Methods to Detect & Prevent Kidney Disease” with all our Diabetologist moderated by Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, our Head & Chief Diabetologist on 09 March at 4:00 PM. Several people participated through FB & Zoom link.
Few glimpses of the entire campaign on World Kidney Day 2023.
In the memory of our Founder (Prof.) Dr. M Viswanathan, a free medical camp was organized by Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, Head & Chief Diabetologist, at Mahalingapuram Sree Guruvayoorappan/ Ayyappan Temple today, 01 March 2023.
The MV Hospital for Diabetes and Prof M Viswanathan Diabetes Research Centre Royapuram organised the 37th Prof M Viswanathan DRC Gold Medal Oration. A new app 'MV DIABEAT' was launched for the convenience of people with diabetic foot infection during this event. Users can consult the multi-disciplinary team at the hospital for any query related to their feet and diabetes treatment. The app is connected to a WhatsApp number and the experts will share their opinion. The app is available in PlayStore. The hospital is also conducting Train the Foot Trainer programme for the first time in India and the South East Asia Region for training doctors in diabetic foot. About 100 doctors from India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Maldives have been flown in for the same.
7th Train the Foot Trainer (TtFT) Program- Chennai at the MV Diabetes Royapuram and Hyatt Regency, Chennai TTft (Train the Foot Trainer Program) has been done 6 times in South America, Africa, Europe, UAE & Western Pacific regions. The 7th Edition was done in Chennai by MV Diabetes under the leadership of Dr. Vijay Viswanathan for Indian doctors. Doctors from other countries like Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar also participated. Both faculty & delegates were from various countries apart from different parts of India.
7th Train the Foot Trainer (TtFT) Program- Chennai at the MV Diabetes Royapuram and Hyatt Regency, Chennai TTft (Train the Foot Trainer Program) has been done 6 times in South America, Africa, Europe, UAE & Western Pacific regions. The 7th Edition was done in Chennai by MV Diabetes under the leadership of Dr. Vijay Viswanathan for Indian doctors. Doctors from other countries like Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar also participated. Both faculty & delegates were from various countries apart from different parts of India.
Dr. Shashank Joshi, Diabetologist & Endocrinologist, Mumbai being presented with Prof. M Viswanathan Honour Award – 2023.
An App called MVDiaBeat was launched on this occasion for the convenience of people with Diabetes.
The doctors were given an overview of how to manage Diabetic Foot in these 2 days. There were also sessions about Diabetes treatment and they visited the facilities in M V Hospital for Diabetes and also interacted with the experts around the world.
The 37th Edition of Prof. M. Viswanathan Gold Medal Oration Award (Citation & Gold Medal) was presented to Dr. Rodica Pop- Busui (President of American Diabetes Association). Also seen, Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, Dr. Jayashree Gopal (Associate Dean) & Dr. S. N. Narasingan (Dean)
M V Hospital for Diabetes Royapuram organized a free camp for the inmates of Missionaries of Charity /Nirmala Shishu Bhavan situated in our street. Many sisters and the children took part.