Experts will handle your queries related to drugs and they will help you at there level best. Even doctors working outside the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) can also get information and clear their doubts related to treatment of patients and medicines.

Details of drug information service

Western countries serve there people by providing such type of information regarding drugs and medicines. This type of service is launched first time in India that will provide information for better and safe use of medicines. Details of this service is provided below that can help you.

• Phone: 0172-2755245 and 7087008937
• Email ID: druinformationunit@gmail.com
• Face book page: Drug Information Unit Pgmier
• Time: Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5PM

Why there is need of this service:

This is the good step taken by PGIMER to serve the community because most of time people get many type of problems related to incomplete communication between doctor and patient. Sometimes patient have some doubts and after their meeting with doctor they find that their doubts regarding the medicine are unclear. They want to know about the side effects of the prescribed medicines and also want to know more about their disease that they are suffering from. This is the reason that pharmacology department of PGIMER want to help people in better way and they started this service to clear the doubts of patients. Common questions that are coming from patients are common side effects of medicines, which tests they should undergo to keep a track of side effects, should they take medicines empty stomach or after taking food, and can they take a medicine in the afternoon if they have skipped it in the morning?

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Malaria and Dengue are expected to spread but till now no breeding point has been suspected so that is why the Health department has already started the preparation to tackle the vector-borne diseases in Chandigarh.

Know the Complete Details of vector-borne diseases in Chandigarh

Details of the Mobile App

• It will contain the details of doctors
• Residents can register their complaints here(like water stagnation)

Benefits of the Mobile App

• Residents could contact the doctors easily.
• Complaints could be solved at a faster rate.
• No standing in queues for complaint registration.
• The lesser spread of the disease.
• Residents would be updated to take precautions.

The department has started the process to hold meetings with councilors for creating awareness in their respective wards. They will hold awareness camps in the city schools to educate the students to keep their surroundings clean. The officials are keeping a strict check on the fields and the residential areas that no stagnant water is left as such for a breeding point.

So far, no dengue or malaria has been found positive in the city. The number of chikungunya cases, however, continues to be reported in the city. At the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, 47 people from the city were tested positive for chikungunya. Mohali district reported its first swine flu case recently, the Chandigarh health department has stepped up its surveillance activities in the city to prevent the possible outbreak of the disease.

Mohali district reported its first swine flu case recently, The Chandigarh health department is now conscious about the spread of disease in the city and is taking all the possible measures to prevent the outbreak of the disease.

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