A webinar with Dr. Piya Ballani Thakkar, consultant endocrinologist and diabetelogist was held on 3rd April 2020 for all patients who are living with Diabetes. It address several questions on what people with this condition can and should do during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown period. Click on the video link below to listen to the entire webinar.
How is COVID different from other viruses?
We know that this is a respiratory virus which has a high transmission rate i.e. it travels faster…
On 27th March, 2020 PatientsEngage spoke with Dr. Vinay Deshmane, Consultant in Surgical Oncology & Breast Diseases and Medical Director and Jnt. Hon secretary of the Indian Cancer Society on the challenges faced by cancer patients during the lockdown period. Here are the key points from the webinar. Click here to listen to the entire webinar. Cancer treatment should be continued in consultation with your Oncologist because cessation of…
As part of our series of staying safe and healthy and preventing emergencies during Covid-19 pandemic related restrictions, we announce our next webinar for patients of Heart Failure and Heart Transplants. Join us on Thursday 30th April, 11am IST as we speak with the experts below Dr. Anvay Mulay, Director, Heart Transplantation and Advanced Cardiac Surgery, Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai and Rishi Gangoly, Heart Transplant recipient You can…
Emotional Resilience for Persons with Disabilities and persons with chronic conditions with Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychologist Divya Parashar. This was in the context of the COVID pandemic but there are lessons in there for all times. We talked about What is emotional resilience Anxieties faced by people with disabilities What is psychological resilience What makes people resilient How to build psychological resilience Effects of suspension of therapy due to covid How to overcome…
Psychotherapist H'vovi Bhagwagar points out that today an increasing number of Indian men are feeling the pressure of gender role strain and need to be motivated to seek help for mental health issues. These issues are likely to be accentuated during the covid19 pandemic, the lockdown and the economic downturn. The stigma associated with therapy is a global phenomenon, and for a very long time it was believed that therapy was only for the very disturbed, poverty-ridden, drug addicts and the…
Sleep disorders may make a person more vulnerable to psychiatric illnesses, intensify the severity of the symptoms points out Dr Nileena N.K.M, Specialist in Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, and stresses the importance of better sleep for better life. Plus Tips For Good Sleep. What is the correlation between mental health and sleep? Sleep and mental health go very much hand in hand in our day to day life. Many of the psychiatric illnesses are seen to be associated with sleep complaints and…
Mental Health is an increasing concern during Covid-19 due to restrictions, extended lockdown, distancing - social and physical. PatientsEngage and CMHLP - Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy are hosting a webinar series on ‘Mental Health During COVID-19’ COVID-19 is stressful for all of us especially in the context of the extended lockdown. There is a lot of uncertainty, confusion and fear around this lockdown and social distancing. On Monday 20th April 2020, 4pm IST…
Due to the Coronavirus lockdown, majority of People with Hemophilia (PWH) are suffering in silence with severe pain by taking pain killers and homeopathic medicines prescribed by our doctors, informs Ramu Gadkar, Regional Chairperson Haemophilia Federation of India – Western Region. How has the Coronavirus lockdown affected the supply of lifesaving, essential drugs for hemophilia patients? These essential drugs come through courier via flight services from Hemophilia Federation of India (HFI),…
A series of webinars in 10 languages in collaboration with Kidney Warriors Foundation. We will speak with Nephrologists and Transplant Surgeons and share experiences of empowered kidney patients Sessions planned are 15th April 4pm IST - English Dr. Ashish Sharma, Head, Dept of Renal Transplant Surgery , PGI Chandigarh and Dr. Dinesh Khullar, Chairman, Nephrology and Renal Transplant Medicine , Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket For the session in English on 15th April 4pm Please click…
