SN Medical College Prof Dr Prashant Prakash bags API Oration Award for 2021
Dr. Prakash, a Nodal officer for COVID 19, SN Medical college Agra head of the Superspecialty Division of Pulmonary Medicine dealing with Respiratory diseases including COVID 19 and Swine flue, is the 3rd recipient of an API Oration Award in Agra in the last 31 years.
Patna: The Association of Physicians of India recently awarded Dr Prashant Prakash, Professor, and Head, Pulmonary Medicine SN Medical college Agra with Prof Rathnavelu Subramanian Endowment Oration Award for the year 2021.
Dr Prakash has been conferred upon with the award for attaining excellence in his field and for the prestige he achieved in the medical profession.
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After his felicitation, Dr Prakash told UNI over the telephone from Agra that during the Oration Award ceremony, held virtually, he delivered a lecture on Use of Non-Invasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure especially in the background of COVID 19 Pandemic. Noninvasive ventilation is a modus of artificial respiration inpatient of COVID, he informed.
Dr. Prakash, a Nodal officer for COVID 19, SN Medical college Agra head the Superspecialty Division of Pulmonary Medicine dealing with Respiratory diseases including COVID 19 and Swine flue, is the 3 rd recipient of an API Oration Award in Agra in the last 31 years. Previously Padmashri Dr Hazra of Agra had received it in the year 1991 and Dr M.M Singh in 2002.
Dr Prakash informed that the Association of Physicians of India, an organization of 22,000 Physicians and Medical super specialist (Cardiologist, Neurologist and others) confers only four Oration Awards every year by convening national annual conference - APICON to the prestigious medical professionals and leading faculty of the country who have attained excellence in their field.
