World Patient Safety Day is to be observed annually by Member States of WHO, on 17 September. The Day is firmly grounded in the fundamental principle of medicine - the Greek dictum "primum non nocere" which means, "To do no Harm". The overall objectives of the Day are to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in health care safety, and promote global action to prevent and reduce avoidable harm in health care.

Globally, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary & outpatient healthcare & it is well ascertained that 80% of the harm is preventable. In India, nearly 5.2 Million people die due to inadvertent patient safety incidents, which displays the glaring deficiencies in healthcare services in respect to patient safety.

In order to scale up efforts & ensure progress toward increasing patient safety in India, the Patient Safety & ADR Monitoring Cell, under the aegis of Deptt. Of Hospital Administration, SGPGIMS organized a Patient Safety webinar on the WHO Patient Safety theme for 2021: Safe Maternal & New-born Care- 'Act now for a safe & respectable childbirth!'

The program comprised on inaugural session & the scientific session based upon the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2021, "Safe maternal and new-born care". Dr. R. Harsvardhan welcomed all the delegates & speakers following which Prof. Gaurav Agarwal, CMS, SGPGIMS deliberated on what lies ahead for patient safety in India & ways of developing a positive safety culture in hospitals. To minimise mistakes & follow protocols & checklists to eliminate errors in patient care. The importance of providing The delegates were sensitized to the importance of patient safety by means of a video exhibiting the same. Prof. R. K. Dhiman, Director, SGPGIMS, discussed on how hospitals can play a key role in making healthcare safer, factors to consider while providing treatment to prevent unavoidable harm to patients by healthcare professionals & enhancing the quality of care. He also stressed on the importance of 'Global action on patient safety' the resolution passed by World Health Assembly in 2019.

Dr. R. Harsvardhan, HoD, Deptt. of Hospital Administration, explained the concept of Patient Safety stating how the Pareto Principle must be followed in trying to minimize the harm done to patients. Further, elaborated on the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework (NPSIF) which aims to improve patient safety at all levels of health care across all modalities of health care provision, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow up within overall context of improving quality of care and progressing towards UHC (Universal Health Coverage) in coming decade in India.

Dr. R. Harsvardhan, HoD, Deptt. of Hospital Administration, explained the concept of Patient Safety stating how the Pareto Principle must be followed in trying to minimize the harm done to patients. Further, elaborated on the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework (NPSIF) which aims to improve patient safety at all levels of health care across all modalities of health care provision, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment and follow up within overall context of improving quality of care and progressing towards UHC (Universal Health Coverage) in coming decade in India.

Clinical Risk Assessment- concerned with improving the quality and safety of health-care services by identifying the circumstances and opportunities that put patients at risk of harm, with special reference to surgical practices in healthcare settings was deliberated over, by Prof. Richa Lal, Ex-HoD, Pediatric Gastrosurgery. SGPGIMS. Special emphasis was given to the WHO Patient Safety Checklist & its implementation. Dr. Mandakini Pradhan, HoD, Maternal & Reproductive Health, SGPGIMS highlighted the significant burden of risks and harm women and new borns are exposed to when receiving unsafe care during childbirth. Dr. Anita Singh, Addl. Professor, Neonatogy, SGPGIMS emphasized on the adoption of some of the best practices that can prove beneficial in preventing avoidable risks and harm to newborn during childbirth & reduction of neonatal death & stillbirths. Dr. Jai Prakash, Senior Principal PvPi, GoI, discussed about the importance of reporting & monitoring of adverse drug reaction as a way towards medication safety. The program concluded with the concluding remarks by Dr. V. K. Paliwal, Medical Superintendent, SGPGIMS.

The main objective of the program was to accelerate the actions necessary for ensuring safe and respectful childbirth & improve present knowledge of ADRs & Pharmacovigilance among healthcare professionals & to strengthen the trend of reporting ADRs to regional pharmacovigilance centres.

The Webinar was organized by Patient Safety Cell & ADR Monitoring Cell under the aegis of Dr. R. Harsvardhan, HoD, Department of Hospital Administration, SGPGIMS. Prof. R. K. Dhiman, Director, SGPGIMS was forthright in his guidance & support.

A total of 1196 delegates registered for this significant webinar on Patient Safety.

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was approved by the MI-IRD and launched by Honorable Minister of Human Resource Development on 29th September 2015. This framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country under various categories. The Ranking parameters broadly cover "Teaching, Learning and Resources," "Research and Professional Practices," "Graduation Outcomes," "Outreach and Inclusivity", and "Perception".

National institutional ranking framework India Ranking 2021 was declared at 12:00 noon on 09th September, 2021 by Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon'ble Minister of Education, Govt. of India. Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow participated in NIRF Ranking 2021 in Medical Institute category & was ranked 5th in the country & Ist in Uttar Pradesh with the score of 72.45, which is more as compared to the NIRF India Ranking 2020 score (70.21). The difference between the score obtained by Rank 4 & Rank 5 medical institute is 1.17 in the NIRF India Ranking 2021. SGPGIMS has retained its 5th Rank this year also despite increase in number of medical institutions applying for NIRF India Ranking each year.

The initiative was taken by Quality Cell, Department of Hospital Administration under able stewardship of Institute Administration.

e-office application is being commenced at SGPGIMS from 01-Sep-2021. SGPGIMS is a tertiary care medical centre and a leader in using technology for transparency and accountability. This application will enhance to make SGPGIMS working more digital and effective. e-Office application is being deployed at SGPGIMS as part of Uttar Pradesh Government digital initiative through Uttar Pradesh Electronics Corporation (Nodal agency for e-office in the State of Uttar Pradesh).

The inauguration of e-office at SGPGIMS was done by Prof.R.K.Dhiman, Director, SGPGIMS in gracious presence of Mr.Rishirendra Kumar, IAS, Special Secretary, IT and Electronics and Managing Director, Uttar Pradesh Electronics Corporation Limited. Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. Prof.Gaurav Agarwal, CMS, Prof. Rajneesh K Singh, JDA, Prof. Uttam Singh (HOD , BHI), Mr. Praveen Kumar, Consultant Policy (UPLC), Mr. Surya Kumar Patnaik, Officer In-charge and Scientist, STPI, Mr. A.K.Singh Sr. AO, SGPGI and others dignitaries were also present on the occasion. Mr.Rishiendra Kumar assured to extend every possible help to SGPGI to run e-office application.

The salient features of e-office application:

e-office application has been designed and developed by National Informatics Centre, Government of India. The application is a digital workplace solution. SGPGI has presently enrolled 482 users in e-office system who will work on this application. The users have been provided training for working on e-office by Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, SGPGI. No new files will be opened physically, all letters/meeting notices, office orders, circulars will be issued and circulated on e-office, e-files and letters can be tracked and their status is known at all times. This will transform the work culture at SGPGIMS and will make most of the working paperless. The deployment of this application will help the institution to use the manpower available for more productive work.

Our vision is to achieve a simplified, responsive, effective and transparent working of all Departments/Sections for patient welfare and excellence through e office.

SGPGI celebrated the culmination of education of meritorious students in a poignant convocation ceremony today in Shruti Auditorium. Convocation acquired a new meaning this time as the Hon’ble President of India , H.E. Shri Ram Nath Kovind graced the occasion as the Chief guest.

Hon’ble Smt. Anandiben Patel, Governor, Uttar Pradesh and Visitor SGPGI, presided over the function.

The function was also graced by hon'ble Smt. Savita Kovind ji, the first lady, cabinet minister for medical education, finance and parliamentary affairs Shri Suresh Khanna Ji, state minister for medical education , technical education & finance Shri Sandeep Singh Ji and chief secretary, Government of UP and President, SGPGI.

The Convocation ceremony was organised in hybrid mode keeping in mind Covid 19 protocol. Only senior faculty members were invited physically along with the various dignitaries who graced the occasion alongwith degree and award recepients. Rest of the faculty members and Institute office bearers and degree recepients families joined via video conferencing. After the arrival of the academic procession with traditional grandeur, every one rose to the National anthem.This was followed by customary lamp lighting and invoking the blessings of Ma Saraswati, the goddess of learning .The hon’ble Governor Smt. Anandiban Patelji declared the convocation formally open.

Shri R K Tiwari, Chief Secretary, Government of Uttar Pradesh and President, SGPGI welcomed the distinguished guests. Director, Professor R K Dhiman presented the progress report of the institute.

This was followed by felicitation of the dignitaries. Prof SR Naik Award, Prof S S Agarwal Award and Prof R K Sharma Award were conferred upon the deserving winners by the Hon'ble President Of India. Smt Anandiben Patelji addressed the learned gathering. She congratulated award winners and recipients of degrees and said that they should never lose humanitarian touch as they have a social responsibility towards mankind.

The Chief Guest, Hon’ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind blessed the students with his inspiring and kind words. He said that an Institute is not known only for its building and structure, but the consistent efforts of its staff in the field of research, patient care and teaching add to its recognition. He applauded our scientists for developing indigenous vaccines against Covid 19. Shri Sandeep Singh ji proposed the vote of thanks. The convocation ceremony ended with distribution of degrees to the passout students.

It was another milestone in the history of Kidney transplantation at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. The department of Renal Sciences (Nephrology and Urology) at SGPGIMS added another feather in the cap of SGPGIMS, by doing ROBOTIC Kidney Transplantation of the Recipients. This is the first such surgery in the history of state of Uttar pradesh also. The lucky recipient is a 42-year-old female, resident of Barabanki who was diagnosed to have End Stage Renal Disease in 2019 in department of Nephrology by prof Narayan Prasad. She had been on maintenance hemodialysis since April 2019. Her mother agreed for the donation of a kidney to her daughter. She underwent work up for ABO compatible renal transplant for the immunological matching, which was perfectly fit and all matching were within acceptable limits, hence the transplant surgery was planned. The patient consented for the Robotic assisted Transplantation and Prof Aneesh Srivastava, the HOD of the department of Urology and renal transplantation and Dean of the institute very meticulously planned for the Robotic Surgery on 06th Aug 2021. The robust team of surgeons from the department carried out the procedure under the guidance and leadership of Prof Aneesh Srivastava. Dr.Rajesh Ahlawat ,a visiting surgeon and mentor for the event played a great role for the successful completion of the surgery. The Anaesthesia team under the leadership of professor anil agrawal and professor sandeep sahu were a great support for transplant surgery.

The day of 6th August 2021 become the page in the history of SGPGIMST by doing the first ROBOTIC Kidney Transplantation. The director of the institute, Prof R K Dhiman, was very keen to observe this day of the robotic surgery. The great academician and dynamic director has always been very keen to develop new treatment and techniques at SGPGIMS. More than 200 robotic surgeries have been performed by now in last two years despite all odds of COVID related issues.

The team of Nephrologists led by Prof Narayan Prasad was happy to see the brisk urine output post transplantation, and well settled recipient. The surgery was a huge success and the patient had a good post operative recovery. Professor Aneesh Srivastava and the team of urologists are extremely exhilarated and excited about the beginning of a new chapter with this latest state of the art technology .It must be mentioned here that professor Aneesh srivastava has mentored transplant programs in many medical colleges and other Govt. Institutions of the country including AIIMS Jodhpur, Rishikesh and other upcoming AIIMS. He is constantly supporting the Transplant programs in the RML Institute and the Command hospital of Lucknow for several years.

The Robotic renal transplant is a recent state of the art technique in the field of minimal invasive surgery which offers high precision to the surgeon and speedy recovery for the transplant recipients at some extra cost. This technique is extremely useful in overweight recipients, which could be challenging when done as an open technique. The robotic assistance provides easy access to place the transplant kidney in the abdomen with a very small incision and minimal post-operative pain as compared to the conventional transplant surgery. The incidence of fluid collection around the transplanted kidney which could occasionally be a menace is practically not seen with this technique.

The director congratulated the transplant team of urology, Nephrology , anesthesiology and other supporting departments and enthusiastic highly skilled paramedical staff of the institute for their untiring efforts and being a strong pillar to the patient care services.

BJP national president JP Nadda along with Chief minister Yogi Adityanath and party’s national general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh visited former UP CM Kalyan Singh at SGPGI on Thursday and enquired about the health of the veteran leader. UP deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma also accompanied the senior leaders. Nadda and Santhosh specially flew down to Lucknow to meet the ailing leader who was admitted to the ICU of SGPGI last week.

Nadda said: “Since the time the news about Kalyan Singhji’s ill health came, I felt that I must visit him. Even the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is concerned about him. I am happy to learn that he is stable and responding well to the treatment and hope that he recovers fast and returns to public life soon.

Nadda added that he spoke to the doctors at SGPGI at length and realised that the line of treatment was the best that can be given to the former CM and former governor of Rajasthan. “I am sure that he is in safe hands,” the BJP chief said.

Earlier, an official statement from the institute said that the condition of Kalyan Singh was better.

“The condition of Kalyan Singh, who is admitted in ICU of Critical Care Medicine, is improving. He is haemo-dynamically stable. The veteran leader has started responding to the commands and tried to communicate with the staff engaged in his care,” SGPGI director Prof RK Dhiman said in a statement.

A Memo of Understanding was signed between Prof. R K Dhiman, Director, SGPGI and Prof. Harish, Dean, Research, IIT, Kanpur today on 29th June, 2021 for collaboration in Telemedicine and Heath Care Robotics. Through this MoU, SGPGI, Lucknow and IIT Kanpur agree to collaborate an R& D set up for promoting telemedicine aided by ICT and 5G that would revolutionize smart health care. Customized healthcare systems in the form of mobile vans will be made available to rural areas while smart Kiosks will be established within smart city framework to take care of medical emergencies.

Many parts of our country are still isolated and hard to reach and have limited health care facilities. Even in the urban and semi urban settings, smart health care facility is the need of the hour. This MoU will pave the way for collaboration between a clinical centre and an engineering centre. IIT, Kanpur is setting up a Centre of Excellence in Telemedicine and Healthcare Robotics to develop technologies that can provide such healthcare facilities as needed by our population.

SGPGI has rich experience in Telemedicine. The school of Telemedicine and Biomedical Informatics established in the year 2006 has rendered exemplary services in teaching and training of health care personnel and providing health care services to the inaccessible areas. With 20 years of experience of SGPGI in application-oriented telemedicine research, development and deployment, the collaboration will bring in a synergistic eco system to speed up the digital application in healthcare and capacity development.

Current Corona pandemic has made telemedicine technology very popular and useful tool to bridge the gap between care providers and citizen. So there is a need to develop indigenous technology platform and systems in large scale which can be affordable.

This Collaboration is going to yield immense benefit to the society.

SGPGIMS under the directives of Hon’ble Minister of Medical Education, Finance and Parliamentary affairs, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Suresh Khanna ji, has been conducting seminars on various aspects of healthcare and medical ethics. Another program in the series was conducted through Video conferencing on “COVID Vaccination: Challenges and Education for Vaccine Hesitancy” on June 26th 2021, from 12.30 to 1.30 pm. The session aimed to understand why there is still hesitancy among masses for vaccination as people are deciding not to get the COVID vaccines until more people have had them. Vaccine hesitancy can affect people of all ages and waiting too long to be vaccinated allows the virus to continue spreading in the community, with new variants emerging. Through the webinar, the need to educate people to inoculate themselves was stressed upon.

Director, SGPGI, Professor R K Dhiman, welcomed the speakers. Speaking on the occasion, Prof.Dhiman explained the need to get vaccinated to be fully prepared to face the third wave. “The message should be disseminated to the public also to get themselves inoculated and to maintain Covid appropriate behavior,” he said.

Prof Afzal Azim, Executive Registrar, introduced the speakers to the participants.

The webinar started with an educative talk by Lt. Gen.Dr. BNBM Prasad, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, KGMU on Government 's perspective on Covid 19 vaccination He said that the all the four types of vaccines are safe and effective and have very mild side effects. As health care professionals, we all have to spread the message to get vaccinated to contain infection as any pandemic has repeated waves. This can be controlled only by dedicated vaccination program.

Second lecture was on myths and facts about COVID 19 vaccination by Prof. Vikas Agarwal, Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology. Dr Vikas cleared many myths related to the concept of vaccination. He said that one myth related to vaccine is that it is too fast to be safe, but the fact is that all the safety issues were taken care of and was approved by multiple independent regulatory panels. It is a general perception that once infected with Covid 19, vaccination is not needed. But fact is that in that case also, one must get vaccinated as per protocol ( after 14 to 16 weeks ) because targeted vaccine response may boost immune response. He also clarified that vaccine does not give covid 19 infection because none of the vaccines uses live virus. Pregnant women and lactating mothers can take vaccines. Vaccine cannot reduce the transmission of Covid 19, but with vaccination one would have lesser complications of disease.

The challenges, nursing staff faced in vaccination was shared by Ms. Neelam Khokhar, Deputy Nursing Superintendent, SGPGIMS. She elaborated on the vaccination program of SGPGI which started on 16th January and from there it took off very well.

Dr. Roopali Khanna, Department of Cardiology, SGPGIMS spoke on the importance of educating people to get them vaccinated. She said that she had to allay the anxiety and hesitancy of the people to get them vaccinated. People with fever, cold, cough, bleeding disorders are not advised to go for vaccination. People with co morbidities like diabetes, renal disorder must vaccine themselves. There may be minor symptoms of vaccination like headache, mild fever or malaise, but in case of high grade fever or seizures, one must contact the doctor.

Ms. Indu kumari, Lab Technician, Department of Gastroenterology, SGPGIMS, presented a lay person’s perspective on covid vaccination. She cleared the doubts of common people related to vaccination.

Lastly, Dr. Sonali Verma, Senior Resident, Department of Endocrinology deliberated upon CAB: COVID Appropriate Behavior which could act as a social vaccine and is the need of the hour in our country. "Maintaining 6 feet distance, wearing mask and gloves, using sanitizers, washing hands with soaps frequently form covid appropriate behavior. Habitual offenders must be warned to follow the guidelines as they can be instrumental in bringing the third wave. Sharing any unverified information related to vaccination on social media must be avoided," she said.

The session was conducted and moderated by Prof Vinita Agrawal, Faculty Incharge, Bio Ethics cell, SGPGI. The participants joined the program from within the institute and from 52 medical colleges of UP via video conferencing.

The comments from the audience were very encouraging. 219 participants joined the program from within the institute and 52 medical colleges of UP via video conferencing.

11 June 2021

Shri Alok Kumar, Principal Secretary, Medical Education, Government of UP, took stock of the progress of various upcoming projects at SGPGI today. He visited the construction site of Emergency Medicine and Renal Transplant Departments and was briefed about its phased development. This was followed by the round of Liver Transplant Unit and Hepatology department. He also took round of post Covid clinic and post Covid mucormycosis ward. Shri Alok Kumar was also updated about Operation Theatres, Critical Care Medicine, Post Operative Unit, Medical Intensive Care Unit and Dialysis.

Later, he was formally introduced to all the Head of the Departments virtually through Telemedicine facility. The Principal Secretary expressed satisfaction over the pace of development of these upcoming facilities and hoped that with this extension of services,SGPGI would be able to serve a large number of patients requiring emergency care.

Director, SGPGI, Professor R K Dhiman, Dean Dr, S K Misra, Joint Director, Professor Rajneesh Kumar Singh, Chief Medical Superintendant Prof. Gaurav Agarwal,, FIE Dr. Aditya Kapoor and Chairman OPD Dr. Sushil Gupta accompanied him during the rounds