SUM Hospital providing free HBV screening, vaccination
Bhubaneswar: Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital has come into focus for its valiant battle against Viral Hepatitis, a dreaded infection that kills 1.5 million people worldwide every year.
The teaching hospital, a constituent of the SOA University, which registers a footfall of more than 2000 patients daily, has become the only of its kind in the country which conducts free HBV screening and vaccination for all comers on a daily basis, Dr. Manoj Kumar Sahu, Head of the Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal, Liver and Hepatobiliary Sciences said. “Our department conducts free screening and vaccination for everybody from 9 am to 5 pm everyday round the year.
We have been doing it for the last four years and hope to continue the same in the future,” he said on the eve of the World Hepatitis Day on July 28.
“Hepatitis-B is a dreaded disease but people are ignorant about a wonderful vaccine which has been available since 1982.
All you need to do is to get vaccinated to remain safe against the infection,” Dr Sahu said.
He said the spread of awareness against viral hepatitis was the biggest need which the SUM Hospital was trying to do.
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