Medicall 2010 - August 06 till 08: Chennai Trade Centre

The 5th edition of MEDICALL expo was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor of Dr. MGR Medical University, Dr. Mayilvahanan Natarajan at Chennai Trade Centre on August 6^th along with the exhibitions on Rehabilitation Products, Rehab Expo and Laboratory Equipments, Medicallab was held during Medicall Expo.

More than 8000 visitors including hospital owners, distributors, embassy officials, purchase managers, hospital administrators and biomedical engineer visited the three-day event. A trade delegation from West Africa and Hong Kong were part of visitors.

Around 400 exhibitors from India, China, Taiwan, Germany, Italy and England participated in the show. The exhibitors participated with the objective of meeting new clients, to seek agents, to display new products, to serve existing customers, as well as to assess the market potentials. The visitors came with the objective of purchasing equipments for their hospitals, learning newer technologies, searching for partners and academic exchange.

Wide variety of products including Furniture, OT lights, Tables, Building materials, Ambulance, laboratory equipments, Software, Endoscopes, Ventilators, ICU monitors, Modular OT, Hospital garments, Waste management products, Sterilization equipments, Radiology equipments, Rehabilitation equipments etc., were displayed by various exhibitors.

Two national and two international seminars were organized during the show. Besides, there is also seminar on Audit in hospitals attracted hospital owners from various parts of the country. Below are the lists of speakers during the three-day event:

• Mr. Manivannan from Parama Healthcare spoke on Operational audit and he gave a deep insight on the various areas of revenue leaks and methodologies to arrest them.
• Mr. Ananthapadmanaban from Kovai Medical Center and Hospital stressed the importance of energy audit in reducing the power consumption in hospitals.
• Mr. Sethuraman, Partner, KPMG, deliberated on various aspects of financial audit in hospitals.
• Dr. Ramsubramanian from Apollo Hospitals, enumerated various strategies to reduce infection in hospital

The second day seminar which focused on cost control for hospitals was well received by hospital administrators and the list of speakers as below:

• Mr. Ramesh Emani’s lecture on role of IT in hospitals, whereby he threw light on various departments which benefit from IT integration.
• Dr. Deepali, Inlakhs Budhani Hospital spoke on reducing waste using lean management techniques in healthcare and this technique was earlier used by manufacturing sector is now found useful in healthcare to rescue the treatment cost.
• Dr. Manivannan from KMC hospital spoke on optimizing resources and gave few examples of how business intelligence helps to keep hospitals healthy.
• Mr. Manivannan’s lecture, on analyzing financial reports, enlightened the audience on the complicated topic.

The visitors voiced out that the seminars helped them to update their hospital management skills as well as techniques to upgrade their hospital.

The next MEDICALL show is planned in Kolkata in February 2011 and at Chennai in August 2011.

Post Seminar Report: Seminar on Molecular Diagnostics.

The 5^th edition of the MEDICALL 2010 and 2nd Edition of MEDICALLAB 2010 began on Aug 6^th 2010. In conjunction with MEDICALLAB 2010, we had an interactive Seminar on Molecular Diagnostics.

The Seminar was attended by more than 100 delegates from India, USA, UAE and Mauritius. The delegates were keen to know more about the latest developments in this field.

The Seminar was inaugurated by Dr Suchirta Mannivannan, leading Gynecologist and Dr CN Srinivas, Leading Pathologist.  Dr Rekha Pai from Molecular Biology Dept, CMC Vellore introduced to all the basics of the Molecular Biology, diagnostics and the history. She focused mainly on the molecular diagnostics which are rapidly developed in field of Diabetes and communicable diseases.

Dr Rajan Dewar from Harvard Medical School, USA enlightens the delegates on how to set up a Molecular Diagnostics lab in under sourced country like India. He also delivered session on the utility of the Molecular Diagnostics in haemato-Oncology. His main stress was to build upon the needs of the Physician and Oncologists who can support the Basic Science