OHSC, PGIMER Successfully Hosts Workshop on Orthognathic Surgery

Chandigarh, 8hMarch 2025: The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, successfully conducted a Workshop on Orthognathic Surgery on March 6-7, 2025. Organized by the Unit of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Unit of Orthodontics at the Oral Health Sciences Centre, the workshop featured lectures, hands-on training, and live surgery demonstrations, offering an in-depth learning experience for participants.

The event was inaugurated by Prof. Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER, Chandigarh, as the Chief Guest. He motivated the participants with his encouraging words, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and skill enhancement in surgical practice.

Leading experts, including Dr. S.P. Singh (renowned Orthodontist) his orthodontics team and Prof. Vidya Rattan, Dr Satnam Jolly and Dr Gyan Ranjan Sahoo (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon), conducted insightful sessions, sharing their expertise on advanced surgical techniques for jaw and facial corrections.

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PGIMER Hosts two days Workshop on Neonatal Sepsis, Bringing Together Experts in Pediatric Care

CHANDIGARH, 08.03.25-The two-day single theme workshop on Neonatal Sepsis got off to a flying start in PGIMER today. In common language, neonatal sepsis means “serious newborn infections”.

Over 100 delegates – all pediatricians and newborn specialists – are attending the two-day deliberations. The workshop was inaugurated by the *Director of PGIMER, Prof Vivek Lal.*

*Prof Venkataseshan* from the newborn unit, PGIMER delivered the opening lecture on the epidemiology of neonatal sepsis. He spoke about how the profile of germs causing serious newborn infections has gradually changed over the years, how the incidence of infections due to germs resistant to multiple antibiotics has gradually gone up, and how fungal infections have gradually increased.

*Dr Shiv Sajan Saini* from PGIMER spoke about the risk factors in the mother that increase the chances of the newly born baby developing a serious infection right from birth. He said that mothers whose bag of waters break about a day prior to birth, whose labour pains start prematurely without any reason, and who have fever and continuous abdominal pain during labour are at greater risk of having a baby with sepsis. He said that premature babies are at greater risk of serious infections soon after birth.

*Prof Deepak Chawla* from Government Medical College, Chandigarh, spoke about the importance of giving antibiotics only to those mothers who are at high risk of delivering an infected baby. He described various scenarios after the delivery of a high-risk baby and the various strategies that newborn specialists can adopt to tackle the possibility of newborn infections soon after birth.

*Prof Ramesh Agarwal* from AIIMS, New Delhi, described the clinical signs that allow doctors to suspect infection in a newborn infant. He said that diagnosing sepsis in a newborn is a difficult task because newborns are unable to speak out about their problems, and the signs of infection overlap closely with many other diseases such as low blood sugar, lung diseases, low body temperature and so on.