Health India Diary

  Rupnagar : Around 350 patients attended multispecialty health check-up camp organized by Baweja Multispecialty Hospital here. The patients were given free consultation and medicines related to skin, psychiatry, eye and gynaecology. The team of doctors who attended to the patients included Dr Tarun Baweja, Dr Pooja Baweja, Dr Namrata Baweja and Dr Varun Baweja. Trained in the United Kingdom , they offered latest treatment to the patients in the camp.      “It is a part of our ethics to give back to society and help people live a disease free life. I am glad that a large number of people did turn up in the camp and they were given the best of consultancy,” said Dr Tarun Baweja, Director, Baweja Multispeciality Hospital . It is worth mentioning that Dr Tarun Baweja has completed his training from Birmingham , UK , in epilepsy, child psychiatry and personality disorders, while Dr Pooja Baweja has got the training in botox, fillers and the most advance...

Roopnagar :  A major stride has been made in the field of ophthalmology - the medical specialty dealing with diseases of the eyes. Dr Varun Baweja, an ophthalmic surgeon from Punjab has introduced a revolutionary iStent technique to cure Glaucoma in the eyes, similar to cardiovascular stents. Dr Varun Baweja, a pioneer in the eye stent technique, is the first eye surgeon of India to get a certification from England for carrying out the iStent inject surgery. This eye surgery is used to treat Glaucoma disease, commonly known as ‘Kala Motia’. "The best thing about this path breaking surgery is that the patients get the same medical intervention sitting in India which normally is available abroad at a heavy  cost," said Dr Baweja, a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Baweja Multispeciality Hospital in Punjab's Roopnagar, near Chandigarh. It is pertinent to state that Dr Varun got his poster published in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Journal in 2009 and has performe...