- The 24th Annual National Conference of Indian Society for Medical Statistics: 1-3 December 2006
Theme: Medical Statistics and National Millennium Development Goals.
Main sub- themes for focus related to Millennium development Goals:
Nutrition, Infant and child health, Maternal health, HIV/AIDS, Communicable diseases,Environmental health, Gender Equality and Improvement of health as a component of development
Medical Statistics focus areas:
Clinical and Pharmacological research, Survival analysis, Meta analysis, Population based registries, Non communicable disease research, Parametric and nonparametric statistics, Bioinformatics and Genetics
Pre-conference course:
30th November, 2006 on Advanced Bio-statistical Techniques for Clinical Trials and Research Methodology for Medical Postgraduates.
- Commissioning of new Dialysis machines on 17th MARCH,2006
The Managing Trustee Shri G. Rangaswamy commissioned on 17.03.2006, four new equipment procured by the Department of Nephrology. Three of them are Haemodialysis Machines (B Braun Dialog +) and one is a CRRT Machine (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy). The CRRT, the first of its kind in Coimbatore, will be a boon to all those patients suffering from severe renal failure who are haemodynamically unstable.