PSM.PMCH News

World Health Day 2018 celebrated with a CME programme on the theme 'Universal health coverage - progress and challenges' (View details)

The Department opened its 'Medical Education Unit' upon acquisition of the floor space of the erstwhile Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology adjacent to the pre-existing area.

World Health Day 2017 celebrated with a CME programme, Quiz and film shows on the theme 'Depression - Let's Talk' (View details)

A poster of the Department of Community Medicine entitled 'Energising Medical Students in India - What Would Make then Willing to Work in Rural Primary Care?' was presented at the Annual Primary Care Conference 2016 of the Royal College of General Practitioners, UK entitled 'Energising Primary Care', 6th to 8th October, Harrogate, UK (View Details)

The department participated in supportive supervision of Nutritional Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) in districts of Bihar and submitted the report to Govt of Bihar and held a dissemination workshop in May-June 2016

The department got the responsibility of organising USI and VAS trainings for DIOs of all districts of Bihar, with publications from the department reprinted for wide dissemination. (Know more)

World Health Day 2016 was celebrated with a CME programme on "Prevent, Treat and Beat Diabetes" organized by the World Health Organization Patna in collaboration with the Department of Community Medicine (View details)

Dr Ranjeet Kumar Sinha participated as resource-person in the 'Workshop on Building Partnership for Strengthening Policy Interventions to curb consumption of Smokeless Tobacco' on 30 December 2015, organized by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and collaborators in Patna. (View photo)

World Breastfeeding week 2015 was celebrated. Principal Prof Dr SN Sinha asserted that "This is certainly the first such initiative in Bihar. We will do a survey to ascertain how many working women are there and then work on further modalities." (View photo gallery)

World Health Day 2015 was celebrated on 7th April 2015 on the theme "Food Safety - from Farm to Plate"(View details)

USI Lab of Bihar was opened on 25 March 2015 at PSM.PMCH. (Know more)

Dr Rashmi Singh chaired a session at 14th World Congress on Public Health, Kolkata, India in Feb 2015, and Dr Ranjeet K Sinha presented a poster in the conference

World Health Day 2014 was celebrated on 7th April 2014 on the theme "Small Creatures - Big Threats"

F-IMNCI Season 3 began on 13 September 2013.

Dr Rashmi Singh presented a paper at the 20th WONCA at Prague, the Czech Republic, in June 2013. (See picture)

World Health Day 2013 was celebrated on  7th April 2013 on the theme "Hypertension"

The Department was selected as the lead institution in Bihar for monitoring and evaluation of ICDS projects and Aanganwadi Training Centres. Monitoring programmes were conducted in various parts of the state. Till 2012, reports of 18 projects and 90 Aanganwaadi Centres have been submitted to National Institute of Public Co-operation and Child Development (NIPCCD) of Government of India. 

NVBDCP Training Programme, 24 to 28 July 2012.

World Health Day 2012 was celebrated on 7th April 2012 on the theme "Good Health Adds Years to Life."

Yuva Clinic participated in Patna Medical College Health Fair, March 16th to 18th, 2012 for the first time

F-IMNCI Season 2 began on 24 February 2012.

Yuva Clinic was opened to the public, 8th February 2012.

Hepatitis B Vaccination Camp conducted for newly inducted students of undergraduate medicine (Batch of 2011) in October 2011

World Rabies Day 2011 was celebrated on 28 September 2011 with the conduction of Patient Awareness Programme in the IPC of PMCH.

AAPI Project's Official Period ended in July 2011, but an extension of 1 year was granted.

World Health Day 2011 was celebrated on 7 April on the theme "Anti-Microbial Resistance - No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow" (Multi-departmental lectures in a hall filled over-capacity!)

RTI/STI training programme for medical officers of all districts of Bihar was conducted in two phases (starting January 2011)

Five FIMNCI Training programmes were conducted for doctors from four districts of Bihar, with the first from 09 to 13 September 2010 and the next on 29 November to 9 December 2010 (11 days). This marked the begining of F-IMNCI in PMCH

Hepatitis B Vaccination Camp conducted for newly inducted students of undergraduate medicine (Batch of 2010) in October 2010. After this, it became a regular feature with subsequent batches.

World Rabies Day 2010 celebrated on 28 & 29 September to spread awareness about rabies prevention and to discuss about the newer intradermal regimen to administer modern PCEC vaccines. The event has been reported on the website of the World Rabies Day forum. Follow this link: http://www.worldrabiesday.org/EN/Events/2010-events/events_in_asia.html

FIMNCI: Facility based training programme on Maternal, Neonatal and Childhood Illness for Trainers conducted from 9 to 13 August 2010.

CME/Workshop on Family of International Classification (FIC) & ICD-10 conducted as part of the college's monthly CME programme: 04.09.10 and 28-29.06.10.

World Population Day 2010 Celebrated on 11 July. A Debate session was organized by the debating society of PMCH to discuss strategies to tackle population-related issues. Postgraduate students of the department bagged consolation prizes

NIPI (Norway-India Population Initiative) - Monitoring of the programme in rural Bihar was done in the year 2009

World Health Day 2010 Celebrated on 7 April (centered on 'Urban Health'), conjugated with immunization camp beginning on the same day

The State Quality Monitoring Cell (SQMC) of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) & Life-Saving Anaesthetic Skills (LSAS) was established in the Department in 2009. The department, thus, conducts trainings and gives feedback about the operations to the National Quality Monitoring Cell of Government of India. The SQMC team visited 27 facilities in 2011 and submitted the reports to Governments of India and Bihar.

World Health Day 2009 Celebrated on 7 April (centered on 'Make Hospitals Safe in Emergencies')

The AAPI-Bihar pilot project was initiated at Phulwarisharif field-area on 27.7.08

Seminar Conducted on 18.09.2008 with two guest students from Sussex, England

World Health Day 2008 celebrated on 7 April (centered on 'Protecting Health From Climate Change')

2nd annual state conference of IAPSM Bihar, the IAPSMCON 2007 was held in the department on 27 October 2007

CME on RCH-II and NRHM conducted on 05.09.2007