3rd GUntur
Medical GraduAtes Reunion
(GUMGAR), Warrington, England, September 13, 2003. I
and Nagarjuna attended the third GMC alumni reunion ( GUMGAR
: GUntur Medical GraduAtes
Reunion) in Warrington in England. Over 60 plus alumni attended the reunion.
Dr.Veeraswmy Popuri ( 1963) batch organized the get together. It was
very nice to see several very young graduates of 1996, and 97 batches
attending and actively participating in the reunion. It seems because of
the shortage of physicians now PLAB Part I is being conducted in India
itself and more and more alumni are coming to UK now. It was refreshing
to hear some of their comments and ideas. Dr.Subbarao Chadalawada and
Bapujirao Rao Velagapudi, and Ramesh Potluri organized the meeting. We gave each alumnus the recent Alumni News
letter we published recently, “ We Care” book, and “ Membership
Data and Donation form”. I and Nagarjuna presented briefly about the
origins of our organization, development of mission statement. We
presented various projects, activities, Endowment Funds, CME
presentations we have taken up recently. We also informed them of our
thinking behind the Comprehensive proposals and paying patient wings at
GGH. Auditorium
construction progress was shown and we encouraged donations from the
alumni to the Auditorium and .suggested that they take up some projects.
Quite a few alumni responded positively and several alumni donated £
625 ($1000) and joined the list of donors to the auditorium. They also
raised more money for different projects. (few thousand £ s) for
undefined project at GMC/GGH. Several Alumni showed interest to present
CME lectures when they visit India. We invited all of their alumni to attend
our 9th Biennial reunion and quite a few showed interest.
They also invited GMCANA alumni to attend the AMGR ( Andhra Medical
Colleges Graduates Reunion) that will be held in first weekend of May in
England. We will inform all the details soon. We also offered them a
free website (courtesy of Bapu Arekapudi) for their alumni and will
disseminate their Alumni News also along with our News flashes. A sumptuous dinner and excellent entertainment by
local talent from the families of alumni added the touch to the get
together. Special mention goes to exceptional talents of “ Meow
Meowcry” Dr.Vivekanandamurthy Kadiayala whom some of you may remember
when he participated and mesmerized the audience in Inter medical
college competitions in Silver jubilee celebrations of GMC in 1971. I
invited him to attend our 9th Biennial reunion and entertain
us. The ice has been broken between our two
organizations and we will keep close relationship with them and work
towards a common goal. Ravikumar Tripuraneni Message from Organizers of National IMA annual meeting in Guntur
December 27 -29, 2003: We are hosting the 78th National conference of Indian
Medical Association, National along with Academia 2003 on December on 27th ,
28th and 29th 2003 in Guntur. The conference to be held in the local engineering college
which is situated 11 km from Guntur. It has a number of beautiful halls
and situated in an area of 50 acres with excellent facilities. We except
a minimum of 2000 delegates
for the conference from all over India. The President
of the American Medical Association has expressed a desire to visit
India in the last week of December 2003 and expressed his willingness to
attend the 78th National
Conference. I will be happy if you can organize a group of top
consultancy from GMCANA to take
part in the conference. We can allot a slat of at least two hours
for the GMCANA on hearing from you we will publish the same in the
proceeding. Since the weather in December is fine it would be nice for
our friends to plan a trip to
India and participate in the conference. Venkateswara Rao Nuthakki, MS Krishnamurhty G, MD Chairmen of the organizing committee. |
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Alumni Meeting in U. K. 2.
Prabhakar Tripuraneni’s
visit 3.
Auditorium update 4. Health Minister Kodela’s visit5.
Recognitions Alumni Meeting in UK: Our
colleagues in United Kingdom are meeting near Manchester, England this
September 13, 2003 Saturday. If you happen to be around that area or
planning to attend please call Dr. Veeraswamy
Chowdary Popuri at
011-44-1925-604592. Prabhakar
Tripuraneni’s visit: Dr. Prabhakar Tripuraneni, who has been recently elected as the president of ASTRO (American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncologists) is currently in Guntur and expect a detailed matter of fact report in the next Newsletter. Auditorium update: Discussions are going on Audiovisuals at present and you can see one of the CAD drawings here. Minister
Kodela’s Visit: Our Health
Minister and our alumnus Kodela Siva Prasad is in the USA now. Our
alumni including Secretary Nagarjuna, Communications chair Bapu met him
Aug 31, 2003 and discussed several projects of GMCANA
. For more pictures click on the picture.
Recognitions: Condratulations
to Durga Prasad Atluri (joining year 1981) who won as the Best Teacher
Award for 2 consecutive years unanimously. He is son-in-law of our
Biochemistry Professor Dr.K. Vasudevarao. Dr. Durga Prasad is an
Anesthesiologist at Baylor College of Medicine. Tejanand
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ALUMNI NEWS
July 16,
2003
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Minutes
of the General body meeting at TANA meeting,
San
Jose July 5 th 2003.
Over 100 alumni attended the meeting. A small packet with the recently published news letter, “We care” book, List of life members, List of Auditorium donors, Need address list, Membership update and donation request form, Letter from Dr.Fayaz Ahmed regarding developmental activities at GGH, and Addendum to the Directory 2003 were distributed to all the attendees.
Ravikumar Tripuraneni, conducted the
meeting. The meeting was called to order at 1.30 PM. Minutes of the
previous meeting at
Chicago on Sept 1st were duly approved
unanimously. A minute of silence for Late Paturi Sivannarayana was
observed. GMCANA Update 2003 was presented. Babu Sagireddy presented the
endowments committee report along with the various awardees of the
endowment funds. Dr.GRK Hari rao endowment fund was announced, started
by his daughter Asha Velisetty to be given to the student with highest
marks in Anatomy. Dr.Gowtham Mulpur presented the list of recent
projects undertaken and also about the sponsoring of the first BCS and
ACLS course in Guntur. Basavapurnaiah Kunamneni was recognized for his
contribution to the Govt Fever hospital new wing. Babu reddy Sagireddy
was honored for his contribution to the Intensive care unit at GGH.
Ravikumar Tripuraneni presented the domestic agenda including expanding membership and life membership, Alumni news and discussed various academic agenda at GMC/GGH/ Implementation of Comprehensive proposal and meeting of executive committee with Collector K.Ramakrishna Rao and Chicago focus group meeting was presented. Coordination with GMCOSA along with conducting of our annual awards function along with GMCOSA reunion was announced. Several alumni verified their membership and joined as life members on the spot.
Our constitution and Bylaws need a major
revision. Chowdary Jampala under the chairmanship of Gowtham Mulpur will
be revising the by laws and a provisional copy will be sent to
all the members
before the next reunion and will be brought to the next general body
meeting at the time of reunion for ratification and approval.
Details of the auditorium construction was discussed along with slide presentation and video clip. Bapu Arekapudi presented the communication committee report along with the accessing of our website including the membership search and showed the various links in the website. Uma Gavani presented the financial statements committee report and stressed the need for more funds for auditorium. Many attendees donated for the Auditorium and several more have pledged for the Auditorium.
Gullapalli Nageswara Rao was honored with a plaque for his contribution to the health care in AP. He was introduced by Venkatasubba Rao Uppuluri who enumerated his career and about the high standards of the LVPrasad Eye institute which is the best eye institute in Asia if not in the world. GNRao spoke about his fond association with GMC/GGH.
Location of the next biennial reunion was discussed. Alumni from Houston and Los Angeles showed interest to conduct the reunion. Final decision will be made by the executive committee after considering the various factors and all the alumni will be informed soon.
We are hosting the next conference of Indian Medical Association, National Conference along with Academia 2003 during the month of December on 27th ,28th & 29th . the conference to be held in the local engineering college which is situated 11 km from Guntur. It has a number of beautiful halls andsituated in an area of 50 acres with excellent facilities. We expect a minimum of 2000 delegates for the conference from all over India. I will be happy if you can organize a group of top consultants from GMCANA to take part in the conference. We can allot a slot of at least two hours for the GMCANA on hearing from you we will publish the same in the proceeding. Since the weather in December is fine it would be nice for our friends to plan a trip to India and participate in the conference. I am the chairmen of the organizing committee. If any of you or your friends are going to India and participate in the Indian Medical Association Cme conference please let Bhaskara Rao Tripuraneni 559-434-6144; bhaskar@tripuraneni.com know. Indian Medical Association /GMCANA can give a letter so you may be able to write off expenses as allowed by law.
Ravikumar
Tripuraneni,
ravi@gmcana.org
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June 30, 2003
TAKING SHAPE
In this
issue: 1) General body meeting at TANA July 5, 2003 2) BCS and ACLS courses conducted in Guntur 3) Report from Dr.Fayaz Ahmed Superintendent of GGH Guntur.
In Conjunction with TANA
2003 Conference (Exact location will be posted at the registration and also will be informed by email as soon as it is available) Please try to attend as issues of importance will be discussed. (Tea and snacks served) GMC and GGH conducted first ever BCS and ACLS course approved by AHA and conducted by AHA approved instructors from Apollo hospitals, Hyderabad and GMCANA was the proud sponsor of the project.
Report from Dr.R.
Muralibaburao, I am here with giving the detail report of the course with experiences of all of us. There were 4 no.of BLS ( Rs. 800/-) 43 no.of ACLS (Rs. 1800/-) participants registered. This is the first our time that we could bring the staff, paramedics and doctors under one roof for training regarding BLS/ACLS course. This really gave for all of them the concept that giving BLS/ACLS for critically ill patients is a team work and they also the need for training the roles of team leaders as well as individual rescuers role. They shared their experiences at the valedictory function on the last day stating that they were very clear as to do what as a loan rescuers are as a part of team of 2 or 3. I personally feel that this should become continuous process with regular monthly C.M.E. programe and practical demonstration for doctors, paramedics, staff and also other personal working in the Hospital which at a later date can extend to public education programes. It is a very nice that you are able to buy all the materials needed as you promised by phone. I feel that facing the new auditorium seminar rooms and guest rooms will be an excellent idea and the Apollo Hospital Instructors team which I feel is excellent can be repeated to do this programs for the time being until we are all set as a team. The feasibility of our place becoming an International Training Centre may be difficult at this point of time. The certificates were distributed by Dr.Chiguripati Nageswara Rao and Dr.Nuthakki Venkateswara Rao our chief coordinator at Guntur.
(Dr.R.MuralibabuRao, MD DM
Prof of Cardiology)
Report from Dr.Fayaz Ahmed, Superintendent
of GGH FGuntur
June 30, 2003:
First I prefer to answer some of the enquires
made by you. The 24 hrs Lab is functioning well and about 40 or 50 tests are
being conducted during night times in the Lab. The flowcytometer is also
very well used and with in 10 days, 30 HIV positive cases are already
tested. Dr. Subhadra, Asst.Prof of Microbiology, is trained in NIMS and is
operating Flowcytometer. C.T.Scan picture tube is replaced by a new picture
tube which was supplied by the Govt. and is functioning well. I.C.U.
construction work is in progress. Regarding the equipment for I.C.U, we have
already sent a bundle of quotations by several leading manufacturing
companies and we are happy to know that Dr. Babu Reddy is highly
instrumental in coordinating with all of you, in getting funds to GMCANA
regarding this purposes. The Biomedical technician is presently not
available at G.G.H. We are planning to take the services of Biomedical
Technician of Eluru Hospital in this regard. The 12 crores of Rupees which
were promised by A.P. Govt. is yet to be released. The first BLS/ACLS
courses sponsored by GMCANA through the coordination of Dr. R. Murali Babu
Rao recently, were conducted excellently with everybody’s satisfaction
especially because of the involvement of paramedics along with Doctors. The same type of ACLS/BLS training courses in the Hospital premises are being planned with the help of Apollo Hospital Emergency Team with subsidized charges for P.G. students, Internees, Paramedics, Staff nurses and other Doctors. Regarding public private participation as a pilot project, the newly renovated B & C class rooms have not yet been started and the modalities of payment to all the other staff members who are involved in this is being worked out. I am happy to inform to that we have changed the name of G.G.H to “ Sadharana to Prabhutva Samagra Asupatri”. I would like to give you a brief review of the developmental works done under my tenure as Superintendent for the last 2 years. 1. User charges were introduced for the first time and every month the HDS income is around Rs. 3 lakhs per month. 2. Auction for private medical shops facility has earned an amount of Rs. 42 lakhs for the HDS ( largest ever amount collected by any other institutes in the state till now). 3. 24 hrs Biochemistry laboratory has been started. 4. E.N.T dept got modern equipments worth of Rs. 45 lakhs to the E.N.T. Theatre. 5. 3 new Dental Chairs have been added to the Dept. and dental surgeons with MDS qualification has been appointed on contract basis. 6. A dining hall facility with continuous water supply was provided for the patients attendants.
7. Aqua guard with water cooler
facility about 4 units were arranged in the Hospital premises which were
donated by Sr. Y.V.Rao garu from M.P. Lad funds at a cost of Rs. 1.5 lakhs. 8. The Govt. sanctioned another ABG machine with Semi-automatic analyzers in addition to Elisa reader with washer for performing thyroid function test. 9. Flowcytometer is already working and doing CD4 & CD8 for HIV Patients. 10. State illness fund is being provided for poor patients below poverty line for treatment of Orthopedic problems, Neuro surgery operations and for supply of Cancer drugs for the poor patients and also for purchasing mesh for Hernia surgery. 11. All of you are aware that Dr. Nayudamma, Prof. Pediatric Surgery has done excellent job which is a source of great pride for all the medical community around the world. The Pediatric surgery block was renovated at a cost of Rs. 5 lakhs and was inaugurated recently by our Honb’le Minister of Health Sri Dr. Kodela Siva Prasada Rao garu. 12. The Neurology wards were supplied with computerized E.E.G. machine and Nerve testing equipment by the GMCANA and is being put to use excellently. I am happy to inform you that the Govt. has sanctioned proposals for creation of Super specialty P.G. seats in D.M. Cardiology, MCH Urology, MCH Neuro Surgery, MCH Pediatric Surgery, and DM Nephrology. We also propose to renovate the super specialty orthopedic and trauma block and we request you to release Rs. 5 lakhs which was already planned by GMCANA in the name of Late Dr. E.N.B. SARMA.
13. The Neonatal Pediatric critical care
unit with ultra modern facilities is being constructed over the first floor
of the existing Pediatric unit. We request you to provide the equipment for
this NICU. 14. An Ultra modern operation theatre for Orthopedic surgery is being constructed at a cost of Rs. 25 lakhs released by the Govt. over the ground floor of the existing Orthopedic ward. 15. The labor room has been made air conditioning for the first time with the funds of GMCANA. 16. An advanced version of Operative Microscope for Neuro Surgery is likely to be installed for the first floor at a cost of Rs. 15 lakhs sanctioned from the HDS funds. 17. The Orthopedic Dept. were sanction equipments worth of Rs. 10 lakhs which includes Arthroscope. The C- arm facility is also provided by shifting the image intensifier initially donated to Cardiology by ITC. 18. Urology dept was provided with equipments worth of Rs. 45 lakhs by the Govt. 19. The Cardiothoracic Dept was provided with Fiber Optic Pediatric and neonatal bronchoscope equipments worth of Rs. 25 lakhs by the Govt. 20. Another Colon scope and Gastro scope were supplied by the Govt. to the Dept of Gastroenterology in addition to video endoscope already donated by GMCANA. 21. Post Anesthesia Recovery room is about under construction near to ABC O.T. complex. 22. A dragger ventilator cost of Rs. 6 lakhs was purchased from HDS funds for the AMC recently. 23. The Gynic Dept was provided equipment like labor tables, Video Endoscopic equipment for Laparoscopic tubectomy by the Govt. in addition to Fetal Monitors are Cardioscopic. 24. Central oxygen supply was donated to the Male Cardiology 4 beds and C.C.U 2 beds by the Tagore Memorial Theatre Trust cost of Rs. 1 lakh. It is functioning well
25. The 2 syringe infusion pumps (JMS
company) which were donated by the GMCANA to the Cardiology are functioning
well. 26. 2 C.T. Technicians, 1 Physicist qualified in Radiation physics, several Lab Technicians, E.C.G. Technicians were also appointed to improve the service in the Hospital through HDS. The Hospital Blood bank has provided 6,000 units of blood. The auditorium in the Medical College is coming up very fast and likely to complete at the end of this year. We are thankful to the NRI coordinator Sri Nuthakki Venkateswara Rao garu for his constant support to the Institution. Collector & H.D.S. Chairman Sri Ramakrishna Rao garu constantly showing keen interest to develop the Hospital in providing better service to the patients and fondly remembers his association with members of GMCANA during his visit to Chicago and sends his heartiest greetings to all the members of the GMCANA.
Dr. Kodela Siva Prasada Rao garu Honb’le
Health Minister, an
alma matter of this great institute is a great
source of strength to all of us and he wishes to develop GMC as one of the
prestigious Medical Institute under his tenure. He always appreciates the
support that is being given by GMCANA to G.G.H/GMC and he remembers the
GMCANA on several occasions. I conclude by giving my heartiest greetings to
all the members of GMCANA and my best wishes to our GMCANA meeting during
the TANA celebrations being held during 1st week of July 2003. Thanking you, With best regards, (Dr. Fayaz Ahmed) Ravikumar Tripuraneni President, GMCANA
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ALUMNI
NEWS
Donation
of Educational material by GMCANA for Nursing education: Director
of Nursing, GGH, Name
of the Item 1.
Female Pelvis with Baby on Board 1 number 2.
Skull with lower jaw -
1 number 3.
Pelvis Articulated
1 number 4.
Skeleton Articulated
1 number
Stand
1 number 5.
Brain with skull
1 number 6.
Heart 4 parts
1 number 7.
Liver
1 number 8.
Lungs with heart, & Diapharm
1 number 9.
Trunk (Digestive System)
1 number 10.
Dye in Orbit
1 number 11.
Ear 2 parts
1 number 12.
Urogenital system- female
1 number 13.
Anatomy charts of different 14.
Chase Doll adult 5" 1/2 feets long Infusion pumps to Cardiology Dept, ACLS BCS courses at GGH, Air-conditioning of the labor rooms: GMCANA
also has donated badly needed infusion pumps ( two) to the Cardiology
Department. These were donated by the gracious donation of Prasad
Yitta ( 1963) , Devendrarao Koganty, Ramakoteswara Rao Koya. Cardiology
dept with Dr.Murali babu Rao Prof of cardiology is also organizing first
BCS ( Basic Cardiac life support and ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life
support) courses for the first time in GGH in June 2003 with the help of
team from Apollo Hospital Hyderabad which is American Heart Association
approved facility for training for ACLS . GMCANA is supporting the
project and also planning to supply the mannequins and arrhythmia
Simulator and other necessary equipment. We are planning to
encourage Drs.
Veeraiah Choudary and Swarajyalakshmi Perni have donated two
air-conditioners for the delivery rooms in OB & Gyn Dept at GGH.
GMCANA
AUDITORIUM CONSTRUCTION
is
going on very well and GMCANA
General body meeting at TANA: We
will have our general body meeting at TANA in GGH
receives Rs 12 Crore grant :
Rs
12 crore grant was announced by health minister and our alumnus
Dr.Kodela Sivaprasadarao for upgrading of the GGH this year. They are
planning to buy Rs 50 lakhs worth of ENT equipment including equipment
for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Ravikumar
Tripuraneni, President,
GMCANA Tejanand
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2. Guntur Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI NEWS March 14, 2003
Editors: T.G. Mulpur, Ravikumar Tripuraneni
CONTENTS:
1. Auditorium Construction Update 2. Fever Hospital update 3. ICU picture 4. Donation of books, CDROMS to Library
Auditorium Construction Update:
Construction pictures as of March 7th 2003
Please
click on
http://www.photos.gmcana.org/construction_photos_11_27_02.htm
to see
all the pictures of the construction 1. Report by Building Committee Chairman Dr. Ramaraja Yalavarthi:
The GMCANA Auditorium is an awesome sight. It is a very imposing and impressive structure, sure to inspire anyone. 2. The slabs are almost completed. Once the brick-work is completed (by the end of April), interior work will commence. This shall be done in 8 months (by the end of December 2003) according to Mr.Kumar. 3. So far, APHDIS is in charge of this phase of the construction. Interior work will be subcontracted by our building committee under the supervision of the architect.
The estimates for the various items are: ( All in Rupees) Airconditioning- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 20 Lakhs Lighting - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -15 Lakhs Audio/Visual- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 Lakhs Chairs (850 + 800)- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -7 Lakhs Flooring- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - -15 Lakhs Sanitary & Plumbing- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15 Lakhs Wood- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -10 Lakhs Glass- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - 7 Lakhs Stone (façade)- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -8 Lakhs Paneling & Ceiling- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 Lakhs Bathrooms, Steps Granite-- - - - - - - - - - 5 Lakhs
Grand Total (not including landscaping, generator etc.) Rs: 1.46 Crores We personally met with many of the subcontractors (from Voltas, Thorn Lighting, Phillips Audio visual). We went to some auditoriums in Guntur, Shilparamam Auditorium and Satyasai Nigamagamam in Hyderabad, where we sat in the seats. We saw various models of seating in Baba & sons showroom in Hyderabad. We went to granite and stone dealers in Vijayawada & Hyderabad to look at samples. There are several areas we need to consider cutting the cost without compromising the looks. We need to explore less expensive options as we go along.
Dayyala Meda issue is "almost resolved" in our favor. The Collector Sri KRK Rao, MP Sri YV Rao, and Health Minister Sri Kodela Sivaprasad assured us of their support. We need to consider ongoing maintenance for the building. Dr. Balabhaskararao, Dr. G. Krishnamurthy, and Dr. Nuthakki deserve a great deal of credit for the progress in the Auditorium. They spend an enormous amount of time, despite their very busy schedules and private practices. Dr. Balabhaskararao, Dr.G.Krishnamurthy, and Dr. Nuthakki deserve a great deal of credit for the progress in the Auditorium. They spend an enormous amount of time, despite their very busy schedules and private practices.
Ramaraju and Sulochana Yalavarthi
Fever Hospital update
Fever Hospital addition (chief donor: Dr. K.Basavapunnaiah ) is nearing completion despite some unexpected cost over runs. It looks great and will provide the much needed space for the patients and physicians.
New ICU picture (above the Susrutha Auditorium)
New ultramodern ICU is shaping up at GGH with the help of GMCANA and Rotary club.
DONATION OF BOOKS AND CD ROMS TO THE LIBRARY: Dr.Murali Sundaram, MD (1961) of Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minnesota of has sent (mailed) several text books in Radiology and also several journals in Radiology to the GMC library. Dr.Seetharam Ravipati (1964) of Vanwert, Ohio donated, in his recent trip to India, American college of Radiology CD ROM set ( set of 10) to CME center and also gave a CME lecture also on Posterior Fossa Brain tumors. If you are interested in donating any journals or text books or any educational CD Roms, or videotapes etc, to our CME center please contact Gowtham Mulpur (tjmulpur@gmcana.org) or Ravikumar Tripuraneni ( ravi @gmcana.org).
If you do not want to receive this News Letter please email to
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ALUMNI NEWS January 26, 2003
3 rd GMCANA Awards function was celebrated on Dec 23rd.2002 in Guntur Medical College auditorium. The chief guest was our own alumnus Dr.Kodela Sivaprasada Rao, present health minister of AP. Dr. Anjireddy, our own alumnus and DGM & HS and Chairman, APVVP also graced the occasion. He announced Trauma system consisting of Hyderabad as Model tertiary Trauma Center and new Hyderabad – Guntur highway as the model high way and GGH, Guntur as the model District center and few other places as smaller trauma centers. Sri YVRao MP gave the awards. Dr. O.Madhavakalyani , our alumnus and the present principal and Dr. Fayaz Ahmed also our alumnus and present Superintendent of GGH also attended the function. The function was also attended by our GMCANA leadership and alumni including Drs Ravikumar Tripuraneni, Nagarjuna Ponugoti, Venaktasubbaro Uppuluri, Chowdary Jampala, Hanumaiah Bandla, Sudarsanarao Akkineni, Narasaraju Mantena, Budeiah Botla and Prasad Guntupalli. All the pictures of the function are posted in our website at 3rd GMCANA Awards Function: December 23, 2002. Please press control + click on the highlighted words (to follow link) so you can go to the location of pictures directly. Dr.Tummala
Ramabrahmam,M.D. memorial GMCANA Research Award:
This year
the award was given to Dr.Y.Nayudamma,
MS Prof of Pediatric Surgery for his work on historical separation of
third set of conjoint twins. Sri
Vasireddy Seethapathi and Smt.Gowri Devi Memorial Scholarship Awards: We
also started two other endowment funds this year. Sri
Tummala Ramakrishna Sastrullu Memorial Fund:
The
award is given to the economically disadvantaged but academically bright
student. The first award was presented to Shaik
Riyaz Babu on the eve of third GMCANA awards function on Dec
23rd 2003.
Ravikumar Tripuraneni donated a ultra compact Sony Note book and accessories to be used with LCD projector, several anesthesia journals, several essential and emergency Anesthesia intubation equipment. L. Nageswararao donated several other journals and various books. Chowdary Jampala donated several Psychiatry journals and books. Bhaskararao Tripuraneni donated a Kodak slide projector.
We also distributed a small booklet “ WE CARE” to all the attendees along with “ I CARE “ button similar to the one we distributed at the Chicago meeting and distributing it to all the staff also. It is everything about our organization GMCANA from the beginning to where we are now and what our thinking is. A copy of the booklet is uploaded into our website at www.gmcana.org. Please look at it and send any comments.
AUDITORIUM:
Construction is progressing very rapidly. it is an awesome sight to see
the massive structure coming up so well. More than half of the skeleton
structure (worth about Rs 80 lakhs) is already completed. The skeleton
is going to be done in about three months time. All our coordinators are
working very hard to complete the project on time hopefully by the end
of the year 2003. Dr.Ramaraja Yalavarthi is now in India
finalizing all the details of interior finishing and air conditioning,
chairs etc and we will send a full report after his arrival in USA.
Detailed pictures of the construction are being posted in our website at
Auditorium
Construction Status Photos..
Govt
Fever hospital New wing:
Construction
is almost complete and finishing will be done over the next two to
three months and should be ready to occupy by that time. Recent
construction pictures of the wing are posted at
Government
Fever Hospital Addition Construction, October, 2002.
GMCOSA annual reunion will be held on February 16th 2003 at GMC. The organizers invite any of our alumni to come and participate in the one day event. They also are requesting us to participate in the CME program. If you happen to be in India at that time and are interested to present a CME topic of your choice please let me know immediately so we can inform the coordinators. More news in the next Alumni news. Ravikumar
Tripuraneni, President, GMCANA ravi@gmcana.org
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Guntur Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI NEWS December 25, 2002
Dr. Sriharidas Kanuru visits GMC/GGH and sends this report: He visited GMC/GGH Guntur on November 23rd 2002 Dear
friends, Recent trip to our Medical College in November has been interesting and the best of my many visits in recent years. I spent several hours in the college and hospital and had many meetings with different departments and visited the construction of Fever hospital building and Auditorium. Dr. Nuthakki garu helped a great deal in scheduling the events and his help was beyond my appreciation. Mr. Nishant, our employee was with me all-day and very helpful and appeared very efficient and sincere. There are many things to report but I will emphasize matters of importance. The construction of Fever hospital and Auditorium is progressing well. You might have seen pictures of them on our web. Those pictures were taken by our digital camera, which was donated by us. It will be very useful for the faculty to take the pictures for presentations. Department of Pediatrics is much more enthusiastic now and looking for our help. We ordered three Televisions to be installed in Pediatrics department to entertain sick children and their bedside parents. Requests were made to provide central oxygen supply and pure and cool drinking water to those children. Our executive committee is considering their request. They are building a new floor for Neonatal care and it will be ready in few months. Several Neonatal intensive care beds and needed equipment were obtained. Pediatric department requests are very genuine and essential to patient care and very good educational tools. Our executive committee mailed holiday greetings and requesting your help to raise the funds to meet the needs of helpless and sick children. I hope that our alumni will be generous to meet the challenge. The 12 beds I.C.U is under construction and the plan appears very modern and should meet all the requirements of a good Intensive care. I am sure that you are aware that our alumni are providing all the equipment with the help of Rotary international and Dr.Babureddy Sagireddy ( 1983) The most remarkable change is the acceptance of patients to pay minimum charges for the lab and new diagnostic tests. I don’t believe that there is any other way the state can afford to provide quality care. Public has to choose either no care or better care with affordable and reasonable cost. The establishment of hospital development society is the best thing ever happened to our health care in the state. We
bought books worth of Rs. 200,000.00 and donated to the library. It
was the generosity of my classmates of 1960 batch and they set an
example for other batches to meet the demands of our Medical school in
the future. I am very thankful and proud of my friends. They are conducting C.M.E regularly with our endowment funds. The continuing education and resuscitative care is still in primitive states and we may have to focus to help them. I hope that we may plan to achieve it in the near future as soon as our auditorium is finished. They may need our help to organize continuing education classes in different subjects. Our goal is to help the education but not the daily needs of patients. The goal can’t be realized with out proper tools. We should diligently invest in certain diagnostic and educational tools to be effective and meaningful. “Our auditorium is a body in an institution but it’s life and breath is education.” We should not rest till it survives with full life and vigor. I am proud of our alumni and I hope that you share the same feelings. Thank you immensely for all those that have sent the checks for the fundraising. If you have not send one please consider sending a small donation of $ 100 or more at the time of the holidays to share your joy with poor, sick children back home. Please send the check in the self addressed envelope that was sent along with the greetings or mail to GMCANA Thank
you. Medical Transcripts for licensing applications streamlined: The process of getting Licensing Board applications that need to come from the principal’s office is streamlined. You may mail to the college the required forms and inform about the same to our Secretary Nagarjuna Ponugoti (nponugoti@hotmail.com) who will contact our employee at GMCANA CME center in Guntur and coordinate the process. It is advisable to send copies of your MBBS degree, medical school transcript, marks list, House surgeoncy certificate also along with the application or separately so the process will take lot quicker. If they need more documents you will be informed. GMCANA will also pay the necessary fees, mailing and other incidental expenses. The executive committee approved to charge $ 50 for the process and if the alumni have not joined residency yet we will waive the fees. We also are computerizing all the medical transcript data by scanning all the documents of medical transcripts in the college as far back as they are available so the records are preserved permanently
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ALUMNI
NEWS December
14, 2002
Construction
of The GMCANA auditorium:
is
progressing very well. Slab for the stage and the front area has been
poured on Dec10, 2002. The construction pictures and various other
pictures of interest are also posted in our website and can be seen by
clicking
Medical
Transcripts for licensing applications streamlined:
The
process of getting Licensing Board applications that need to come from
the principal’s office is streamlined. You may mail to the
college the required forms and inform about the same to our Secretary
Nagarjuna Ponugoti (nponugoti@hotmail.com)
who will contact our employee at GMCANA CME center in Guntur and
coordinate the process. It is advisable to send copies of your MBBS
degree, medical school transcript, marks list, House surgeoncy
certificate also along with the application or separately so the
process will take lot quicker. If
they need more documents you will be informed. GMCANA will also pay
the necessary fees, mailing and other incidental expenses. The
executive committee approved to charge $ 50 for the process and if the
alumni have not joined residency yet we will waive the fees. We
also are computerizing all the medical transcript data by scanning all
the documents of medical transcripts in the college as far back as
they are available so the records are preserved permanently Third
GMCANA Awards function will be celebrated in GMC Auditorium,
Guntur
Medical college
on December
23rd at
4
PM.
We
will be presenting several awards including the Tummala Ramabrahmam
research award to Dr.Y. Nayudamma, MS. M.Ch. Health minister and our
alumnus Dr.Kodela Sivaprasada Rao is
the chief guest to attend the function. Dr.K.Anji Reddy will
also be attending the function so also several local MP and MLAs and
also GMCOSA ( Guntur medical college Old students association) members
also. If you happen to be in India around that time please try to
attend the function. New
Computer for the GMCANA CME center at Guntur Medical college:
The
picture below is the new computer that we donated to the CME center
in addition to the 3 computers we already have in the CME center.
Recently we also purchased a digital camera also. We are donating a
notebook computer also for use by the alumni for power point
presentations. Dr.Bhaskar Rao Tripuraneni donated a Kodak Carousel
slide projector for the CME center for use by the alumni and others
for slide presentations..
Dr.
Sriharidas Kanuru visits GMC/GGH and sends this report: He
visited GMC/GGH Guntur on November 23rd 2002 Dear
friends, Recent
trip to our Medical College in November has been interesting and the
best of my many visits in recent years. I
spent several hours in the college and hospital and had many meetings
with different departments and visited the construction of Fever
hospital building and Auditorium. Dr.
Nuthakki garu helped a great deal in scheduling the events and his
help was beyond my appreciation. Mr. Nishant, our employee was with me
all-day and very helpful and appeared very efficient and sincere.
There are many things to report but I will emphasize matters of
importance. The
construction of Fever hospital and
Auditorium is progressing well. You might have seen
pictures of them on our web. Those pictures were taken by our digital
camera, which was donated by us. It will be very useful for the
faculty to take the pictures for presentations. Department
of Pediatrics is much more enthusiastic now and looking for our help.
We ordered three Televisions to be installed in Pediatrics department
to entertain sick children and their bedside parents. Requests were
made to provide central oxygen supply and pure and cool drinking water
to those children. Our executive committee is considering their
request. They are building a new floor for Neonatal care and it will
be ready in few months. Several
Neonatal intensive care beds
and needed equipment were obtained. Pediatric
department requests are very genuine and essential to
patient care and very good educational tools. Our executive committee
mailed holiday greetings and requesting your help to raise the funds
to meet the needs of helpless and sick children. I hope that our
alumni will be generous to meet the challenge.
The
12 beds I.C.U is under
construction and the plan appears very modern and should meet all the
requirements of a good Intensive care. I am sure that you are aware
that our alumni are providing all the equipment with the help of
Rotary international and Dr.Babureddy Sagireddy ( 1983) The
most remarkable change is the acceptance
of patients to pay minimum charges for the lab and new diagnostic
tests. I don’t believe that there is any other way the
state can afford to provide quality care. Public has to choose either
no care or better care with affordable and reasonable cost. The
establishment of hospital development society is the best thing ever
happened to our health care in the state. We
bought books worth of Rs. 200,000.00 and donated to the library. It
was the generosity of my classmates of 1960 batch and they set an
example for other batches to meet the demands of our Medical school in
the future. I am very thankful and proud of my friends. They
are conducting C.M.E regularly with our endowment funds. The
continuing education and resuscitative care is still in primitive
states and we may have to focus to help them. I hope that we may plan
to achieve it in the near future as soon as our auditorium is
finished. They may need our help to organize continuing education
classes in different subjects. Our
goal is to help the education but not the daily needs of patients. The
goal can’t be realized with out proper tools. We should diligently
invest in certain diagnostic and educational tools to be effective and
meaningful. “Our
auditorium is a body in an institution but it’s life and breath is
education.” We should not rest till it survives with full life and
vigor. I
am proud of our alumni and I hope that you share the same feelings. Thank
you. Srihari
das Kanuru ( 60) Ravikumar
Tripuraneni
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Medical College Alumni of North America
DONATION
OF TEXT BOOKS BY 1960 BATCH OF GMCANA :
Dr.Kanuri
Sriharidas, (1960) Chairman of Endowments Committee recently visited
GMC and presented several text books worth Rs. 2 lakhs along with
an almyrah to the Library, GMC BOOKS
DONATED TO THE LIBRARY, GMC BY THE 1960 BATCH OF GMCANA
Sri
Vasireddy Seethapahi and Gowri Devi Memorial awards for year 2002:
1)
VIJAYALAKSHMI, NUTHAKKI
: Highest score in
EAMCET-2002-2003 Rank No. 2 : Marks 196/200
Conducted by NTRUHS in Guntur ;
2)
A. ANJANI : Highest
score in 1st MBBS Exams Conducted by NTRUHS in Guntur ;
Marks: Biochemistry 156/200
: Anatomy 164/200
: Physiology 142/200. Dr.Tummala
Ramabrahamam memorial research award.
DR.Y.
NAYUDAMMA, MS, Prof
of Pediatric Surgery GMC/GGH is the recipient of the 3rd award. You
may be aware that he recently performed the
Separation of the ISCHIOPHAGUS conjoint twins operation
successfully. These
awards will be presented in 3 rd
GMCANA Awards function to be held on Dec
23rd, 2002 in GMC. If any of alumni are close to
Guntur around that time please attend the function. GMCANA
AUDITORIUM CONSTRUCTION
is
going on very well and the recent pictures of the construction are
posted at http//photos.gmcana.org
. Construction pictures of the New
wing at Govt. Fever hospital
are
also posted. Group
picture
(both high and low resolution) taken at the Chicago
Reunion
are also posted. Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan to visit US from Nov 15. Foundation
for Democratic Reforms in India is organizing a lecture tour in
US of Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, National Convener, Lok Satta, and Coordinator
of the National Campaign for Electoral Reforms, between November
15 and November 29, 2002. Dr. Narayan is a GMC Almnus (72). For more
information about Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, Lok Satta, and National Campaign for Electoral Reforms, please visit www.loksatta.org Dr.
Jayaprakash Narayan would be lecturing in San
Francisco on November 15, 16 Los
Angeles on November 17 Chicago
between November 20-23 Detroit
on November 24,25, and Dayton,
OH on November 29 For
more detailed information, please visit www.fdri.org
or http://www.ncpri.org/jp_meetings.htm
or send an e-mail to V. Chowdary Jampala at cjampala@dayton.net. FDRI
is raising funds to promote awareness of the electoral reforms in India.
Donations can be sent to FDRI, 664 Southern Belle Boulevard, Beavercreek,
OH 45434. Contributions to FDRI are tax-deductible in US. Ravikumar
Tripuraneni President,
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Guntur
Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI
FLASH NEWS October
23, 2002
Historical
separation of Ischiophagus twin separation case was performed by Dr.Y
.Nayudamma, MS MCh Prof of Pediatric Surgery at GGH, Guntur today
October 23, 2002. This is the successful third set of conjoined twins
that he and his team has operated and separated 1) Ram and Lakshman 2)
Anjali and Gitanjali 3) Rekha and Surekha on since he joined the GGH.
It is with pride that GMCANA has recognized him with the third “
TUMMALA RAMABRAHMAM RESEARCH AWARD” which was announced at the
GMCANA Biennial reunion at Chicago on September 1st. The
award will be presented at GMCANA awards function at GMC, Guntur in
December 2002. GMCANA congratulates him for this historical
operation and his inclusion in the Guinness book of world of Records. All
the details of the operation are below and other details of his
achievements and other twins separation are available at his website
url: http://www.DrYNayudamma.com Ravikumar
Tripuraneni, The
Operation Process was started at 8:00 am. Children were given
pre medication at 8:30 am and were shifted to the pre anesthetic room.
After getting I.V access children were shifted to
Operation Theater 'B' at 9:00 am. Both Children were anesthetized by
two teams of Anesthesiologists at 9:30 am.
Surgery
Commenced at 9:40 am. Exploration
of the internal anatomy was made. Findings:
Operation
was successfully completed at 4.45pm.
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Guntur
Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI
NEWS July
18, 2002 8TH
BIANNUAL GMCANA/RMC/AMC REUNION Aug.30
– Sept.2, 2002, Chicago Hilton and Towers, 720 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago
Guntur
Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI NEWS May 20, 2002
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GUNTUR
MEDICAL COLLGE ALUMNI OF NORTH AMERICA SUCCESS
ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT
The first ever GMCANA Golf Outing was conducted at the Kemper Lakes
PGA Course under the leadership of Dr. Nageswara Rao Latchamsetty. Several
golfers enjoyed the day immensely. Delicious lunch, and prizes
later, added to the fun.
Everyone showed up on time in fine attire for the Cruise on Lake
Michigan aboard beautiful 'Odyssey'. It was a total sell out. An
entire deck of 140 alumni had a great time with delicious food and
entertainment including the mimicry of Premkumar Vindhya,
entertainment by Santosh Kumar and jokes by Ramaraja. It was
pure pleasure watching the Chicago Skyline from the vantage point of
Lake Michigan in gorgeous weather. Fireworks at the end of the
cruise added a feast to the eye. For those not on cruise, pasta
buffet dinner at the Hotel fitted the bill. The D.J. entertained
the crowd with music after the dinner.
Continental Breakfast followed a highly successful free Cholesterol
Screening. A very educational CME program was attended by most
alumni. Organized by Dr. Surendra Avula, the CME was not only
instructive but raised unprecedented amount of money for the Reunion.
The spouses and members also flocked to the shopping area for browsing
and later buying. Jewellery, beautiful sarees and dresses,
videotapes, trinkets etc. beckoned shoppers. A Chinese Lunch in
the same area provided the well needed break. 'Memory Lane', a
pictorial display of our nostalgic past, courtesy of the hard work of
Uma Gavani, separated the lunch area from the shopping area and
brought joy and tears to the alumni. At the same time continuous
video shows of 'Odyssey to Alma Mater', chronicling a family's
visit to GMC and GGH, added to the nostalgia. Video shows of
construction of the Auditorium provided the needed reassurance that
the building is actually coming up.
A very productive General Body meeting followed lunch. We had
observed a moment of silence and paid respects to the recently
departed Dr. Pinnamaneni Narasimha Rao, Dr. Challapalli Sambasiva Rao
and Dr. Sankara Rao (Psychiatry). Directory 2002 was unveiled by
Dr. Nuthakki. Update 2002 and President's address were
presented. Importance of sticking to our mission statement was
emphasized. Future projects were outlined. A stirring
speech by Dr. K. Anji Reddy, our Chief Guest ("My love to GMC is
next only to the love of my mother") moved the audience so much
that there is a spontaneous outpouring of donations for the
auditorium. A new team is elected with Ravikumar Tripuraneni as
our next President. Dr. Veeraiah Chowdary Perni is elected the
Chairman of Board of Trustees.
All alumni dressed up in a short time for the Photo Session and
enjoyed the company of their classmates for the pictures.
A grand finale of one picture of all the GMC alumni completed this
session. Indian snacks and drinks followed. An unexpected
highlight is the expertise of Bapu Arekapudi who served as the
Photographer throughout the reunion and posted all the pictures on the
GMCANA website in record time.
A sumptuous gala Banquet Dinner (all Telugu food) satisfied even
the most critical customer in the audience. Even the
potential disaster of the 'Paayasam' being spoiled (the hotel employee
put the servings under high temperature by mistake instead of warmer)
turned into a blessing since a freshly made delicious Paayasam was
served at the usual middle of the meal time of the classical Telugu
dinner.
'Rangavalli', a variety show of song, dance, music, mimicry and
comedy, regaled the spectators. A special feature of this show
is that all the items were presented by the alumni or their families
and all the more enjoyable because of it. Radhika Chimata
(daughter of Kamala and Murthy Chimata) with her golden voice and
great personality was such a hit that people were still dancing to her
music at 2 a.m.!! Who else could put together such a show but
our own Ramaraja and Sulochana Yalavarthi?
Just when everyone thought they had indeed witnessed the climax, a
surprise awaited them. The Farewell Brunch in the most
beautiful, so far unseen, room of the Hotel - the GRAND Ball Room
floored the people. The brunch itself impressed them too with
Idli, Vada, Poori, Fruits, 'Kesari', coffee and 'Masala Chai'.
Fond Farewell indeed!!! Sunanda
and Prasada Rao Ravella (Convener) and Saraswathi and Venkata Subba
Rao Uppuluri (President)pulled out all stops to make this reunion a
grand success. Tejanand Gowtham Mulpur, Nagarjuna Reddy Ponugoti
and Satish Dasari (Co-Convener) worked very, very hard. Many,
many others contributed immensely. Thanks to all of them and
also to the organizing committees of RMC and AMC who joined us in our
reunion. (More
information will follow in the next news flash) PS:
Pictures of the reunion were posted in our website at http://photos.gmcana.org
and
click on the Biennial reunion, Chicago Hilton section . Please
click on the thumbnails to enlarge each picture. if you have dial up
modem the pictures may download slower. We are in the process of
making the pictures size smaller so they would download faster. Ravikumar
Tripuraneni, President
EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE GMCANA
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Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI
NEWS September
18, 2002
GMCANA
recently donated a new laser printer/ copier for the CME center for
use. This replaces the old copier that we donated about 10 years ago
which happened to be one of the first donations that we gave to the
alma matter. PICTURES
OF THE 8TH BIENNIAL REUNION, CHICAGO Aug 31st - Sept 2 nd.
You
may look at the proof’s of pictures of various individual batches
and group photo (taken by professional photographer) at the following
website as mentioned in the message below.. The proofs are in low
resolution and the ordered prints would be of much better quality.
You
may go to our website and look at hundreds of pictures of various
events taken by Dr Bapu Arekapudi.
They were posted in our website at http://photos.gmcana.org
and click on the Biennial reunion, Chicago Hilton section .
Please click on the thumbnails to enlarge each picture.
Pictures of the Memory lane (collected by Dr.Uma Gavani and
were shown at the Reunion) are also posted in the same site.
Thanks to Bapu and Uma for the excellent pictures.
Ravikumar
Tripuraneni President,
GMCANA ravi@gmcana.org -----
Original Message ----- From:
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8th Biannual GMC/RMC/AMC Alumni Reunion Photos Event Photos are
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Guntur
Medical College Alumni of North America ALUMNI
NEWS July
30 , 2002
Pre
registration applications need to be post marked by July 31st Dear
GMCANA alumnus, Guntur
Medical College Alumni of North America is again publishing a new 2002
Alumni Directory. We have updated about 250 alumni’s information
recently. Still we have been unable to locate some of the addresses and
other personal information. If you know any of the following alumni
please let me know as soon as you can with any information including
their full name, year of joining GMC, Spouses name, full home address,
home and office telephone number, email address, name and age of
children. Anybody can enter all this information at our website www.gmcana.org
and enter it in the data in Data collection form for all the
alumni.(membership) or email me back with reply to this email. If
you know of any of our alumni who are not members of GMCANA please
inform them and have them send or help them send the information to be
included in our new directory. Lot of area codes have changed and
you may send it to me if it has changed since you sent the data. Please
respond as soon as you can so the data can be updated before the
directory goes to printing.( in about ten days) The
alumni directory will be more complete and accurate when everybody sends
in the complete information. All the alumni with correct address will
receive a copy of the directory and the directory will be released at
the time of our Biannual reunion in Chicago on Sept 1st. Hope
you are aware of the 8th Biennial reunion of GMCANA/RMC/AMC
reunion at Chicago Hilton, Chicago. Please go to our website for
detailed information and registration form. I
can send the No address list as Excel file, PDF file, Word file and I
can send it in any other format if you wish. Thank
you very much in advance for your help. Ravikumar
Tripuraneni President-elect,
GMCANA ravi@tripuraneni.com
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