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Mangla Hospital & Research Center

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Research Profile

Institutionalized Ethics Committee (IEC), Mangla Hospital &RC, Bijnor, UP:

Chairman: Mr O.P.Goel, Retd Judge, Bijnor
Members:
1-Prof. J.P.Agarwal, Pricipal, Krishna College, Bijnor
2-Dr. K.P.Singh, Retd. Lecturer (English),Vardhman Degree College, Bijnor
3-Dr Vijay singh, DCH, Pediatrician, Bijnor
4-Dr. Rahul Kumar, MS, Practicing General Surgeon, Bijnor
5-Prof. P.K.Tyagi, associate Professor, Dept of Zoology, Vardhman Degree College, Bijnor
6-Mr Prashant Goel, LLB, Practicing lawyer, Legal expert, Bijnor
7-Mr Anand Tiwari, SMC UNICEF, district Bijnor
8- Dr Vipin M. Vashishtha, MD, Director, Mangla Hospital & Research Center, Bijnor.


Research activities conducted at Mangla Hospital & Research Center, Bijnor:

A. Encephalopathy outbreaks in western UP:

1-Vashishtha VM, Kumar A, John TJ, Nayak NC. Cassia occidentalis poisoning as the probable cause of hepatomyoencephalopathy in children in western Uttar Pradesh. Indian J Med Res. 2007 Jun;125(6):756-62.

2-Vashishtha VM, Kumar A, John TJ, Nayak NC. Cassia occidentalis poisoning causes fatal coma in children in western Uttar Pradesh. Indian Pediatr. 2007 Jul;44(7):522-5.

3-Vashishtha VM, Nayak NC, John TJ, Kumar A. Recurrent annual outbreaks of a hepato-myo-encephalopathy syndrome in children in western Uttar Pradesh, India. Indian J Med Res. 2007 Apr;125(4):523-33.

4-Vashishtha VM, John TJ, Kumar A. Clinical and Pathological Features of Acute Toxicity due to Cassia occidentalis in Vertebrates. Accepted for publication in Indian J Med Res.2009.

5-VashishthaVM. Mystery behind mysterious disease: far from unraveled! Indian Pediatr. 2004 Feb;41(2):204-5.

6-VashishthaVM. Brief profile of an epidemic of acute encephalopathy in Western Uttar Pradesh. Indian Pediatr. 2003 Sep;40(9):920-2.

7-VashishthaVM. Reye's syndrome--an interesting epidemiological correlation. Indian Pediatr. 2000 Mar;37(3):343-4.


B. Prevalence of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection in western UP:

Manuscript under review process at Indian Pediatrics, 2009.

C. Circulating strains of Measles virus in Bijnor:
ICMR Annual Report 2005-06, page No. 116:

Collaborative projects with other institutions:

-National Institute of Virology, Pune
-National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi
-Emory University, Atlanta, USA
-Indian Institute of Toxicological Research, Lucknow