The Sankara Nethralaya Academy conducts ‘Teacher’s Day’ with great reverence and enthusiasm on 05.09.2015 - Dr. Susan Edward Joseph, MSc, M Ed,M Phil, Ph D , Former Principal of the Presidency Girl’s Higher Secondary School, Chennai participated as Chief Guest for this Celebration

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy conducts ‘Teacher’s Day’ with great reverence and enthusiasm on 05.09.2015

Dr. Susan Edward Joseph, MSc, M Ed,M Phil, Ph D , Former Principal of the Presidency Girl’s Higher Secondary School, Chennai participated as Chief Guest for this Celebration

In India, 5th September is celebrated as Teachers Day as a mark of tribute to the contribution made by teachers to the society. It is the birthday of a great teacher Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who was a staunch believer in education and was a well-known diplomat, scholar and the President of India and above all, a great Teacher.

Teacher’s day was celebrated with pomp and splendour at The Sankara Nethralaya Academy( TSNA), a unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai at its Vanagaram Campus. It was a day of gratitude and remembrance towards all the teachers who have shaped our lives.

The Program started with a mellifluous invocation by Senior Lecturer Dr S Vandhana who invoked the Gods and praised the teachers through Vedic hymns. This was followed by a soulful rendition by the students of Sankara Nethralaya Academy who invoked Lord Ganesha for his blessings and divine Grace

Welcoming the gathering and the Chief Guest Dr. Susan Edward Joseph, MSc, M Ed,M Phil, Ph D , Former Principal of the Presidency Girl’s Higher Secondary School, Chennai, Mr. A Mahalingam, Deputy Registrar, explained the service orientation of Sankara Nethralaya under the visionary leadership of the Living Legend Padma Bhushan Dr. SS Badrinath. He briefed on the educational facilities and collaborations of the academy, for offering a purposeful education to the society, he also highlighted that the healthcare service sector is booming and that there are abundant career opportunities here, which he explained has made many institutions like the Sankara Nethralaya Academy to offer specialized courses in this sector to prepare students aspiring to be a part of this high growth industry.

Mrs Akila Ganesan, Senior General Manager – Sankara Nethralaya and  Registrar of the SN Academy welcomed the Chief Guest Dr. Susan Edward Joseph the most distinguished ‘Chief Guest’ and most worthy Teacher on the occasion, she dwelt in-depth on the terms Guru which is coined by Gu and Ru.

She highlighted that Dr. Susan has donned several roles in an eventful career, she started as a Teacher, went on to become a headmistress at the Presidency Girls High School, became the Assistant Professor at the Holy Cross Home Science College, Tuticorin and the Divisional Education officer. Dr Susan left an indelible mark in every assignment that she handled, she was conferred the ‘Best Teacher Award’ for her high quality of work and the 65 schools under her showed, when she served as the district education officer, registered  all round progress.

Delivering the Chief Guest’s address Dr Susan Edward Joseph had a special word of thanks to the teachers for imparting knowledge to all, she shared interesting anecdotes from her student days and exhorted the students to bring glory and fame to their teachers, she extolled the virtues of the teaching profession and appealed to teachers to take active part in character building of their students.

Kailasanathar temple @ Tharamangalam, Salem Dist

Kailasanathar temple @ my native place Tharamangalam, Salem

Tharamangalam temple EntranceTharamangalam is famous also for its beautiful and historic Kailasanathar temple. The temple features exquisite stone carvings of the Yaali (mythological dragon), depicted with an actual stone ball inside its mouth (one can even put one's finger inside the Yaali's mouth and rotate the ball).

The Kailasanthar Temple also has a carving of Manmathan looking at Siva and Parvathi, where if you look from Manmathan's side both Siva and Parvathi are visible but if you look from Parvathi's side, Manmathan is not visible since he is supposed to be hiding from Siva's view. Also depicted at the temple is a scene from the Hindu epic Ramayanam (Vali & Sukrivan fighting, depicted on one pillar, and Lord Ram with bow and arrow aiming to kill Vali depicted on another pillar).

Tempe History and Architecture

A Siva temple, perhaps the most beautiful of its kind in Salem District. Parts of it existed as early as the tenth century: as it stands now, it is the product of the Gatti Mudhali dynasty of the seventeenth century. Reconstruction and elaboration of the old temple was begun by Mummudi Gatti Mudaliyar, continued by Siyazhi Gatti Mudaliyar, and was brought near completion by Vanangamudi Gatti Mudaliyar.
This west facing temple is enclosed by a massive stone wall measuring 306' by 164' reportedly built in the thirteenth century. The main entrance tower ( 5 storeys 90'high) is conceived as a chariot on wheels, drawn by elephants and horses. The huge entrance doors, made of vengai ( pterocarpus marsupium) wood, are studied with untrusting iron knobs each of a different pattern. Their panels are decorated with wooden carvings depicting incarnations of Vishnu.

The entrance to the inner sanctum is through a portico supported by six sumptuously carved stone pillars. The scenes of tiger hunting by princes seated on horses and accompanied by footmen are depicted very realistically and with great sensitivity. A pillar of yazhi ( a mythical animal combining features of the lion and the elephant) is so ingeniously carved that a stone ball ( 4 ' diameter) in its mouth can be freely rolled but cannot be rolled out. The wooden doors of the portico are adorned with twenty four panels of excellent carving, some of which have been vandalized. The motifs for these carvings are drawn from the divine exploits of Siva and scenes from the daily lives of ordinary people.

The great hall is a fine gallery of sculptures of men, women, and Gods among which the sculpture of the voluptuous rishi pathini ( sages wife) is notable .

The ceiling is supported by rows of stone pillars from whose capitals hang elegant chains carved out of solid stone. The ceiling in front of the main shrine is covered by a block of stone seven feet in diameter carved in the shape of an inverted open lotus with parrots. This carving is surrounded by the Gatti Mudhali insignia. The outer walls of the inner most sanctum are covered with inscriptions.
Every year on February 21, and the consequent 3 days, a great solar and architectural wonder can be seen in the temple. During sunset, the rays of the sun travel down through the front Gopura at the temple's entrance gate and through a small hole in the and travels across the front plane to fall directly onto the statue of Siva. The movement of the sun beam can be witnessed as it progresses across the front of the temple, making the lingam appear to glow.

Several gigantic monolithic pillars of pink granite carved, polished, and ready for erection in the proposed Thousand Pillar Hall lie outside the temple. More are said to be under the ground. Before this project could be completed, Vanangamudi Gatti Mudaliyar was killed in 1667, leaving the foreground of the temple littered with ruins of a noble dream.

A temple tank (about (180' 180') is one of the finest of its kind in South India. Thirty Six Nandhi Sculptures (2' high) of black stone sit at intervals on top of the parapet wall whose inside holds 365 lamp niches.

Tharamangalam is located 22 km from Salem on the way to Mettur Dam

HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT -CERTIFICATE COURSE

Present to you this dedicated

CERTIFICATE COURSE ON HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Program overview:

While quality is a common denominator and benchmark across products and services it acquires a new dimension and criticality in health care delivery in view of its direct impact on human lives and well being.

Health care providers need to constantly measure their standards in terms of internal processes and service quality to ensure that the quality of health care delivery remains right on top and is not compromised in any way.

Maintaining high standards in healthcare delivery is not only an ethical commitment but also a hard marketplace reality, patients and their families today are far more aware of their rights, privileges, availability of healthcare solutions, costing and so on than in the past and demand value for their money.

Healthcare is increasingly viewed as a service like any other and comparative evaluation is the order of the day. The Certificate Program in Healthcare Quality Management combines the theoretic and practical aspects of quality at every level of healthcare delivery and personnel involved.

The Program is being brought to you by The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, the academic wing of Sankara Nethralaya a name that is today synonymous across the country with high quality eye care services, The AHPI Institute of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety, led by Dr Girdhar J Gyani, the acknowledged father of Healthcare Quality in India and founder of the NABH and ACME Consulting, the largest Healthcare Quality Consulting Organisation in India. 

Target Participants:

The Course has been specially tailored for healthcare professionals, both clinical and managerial including:

·         Quality managers... and all managers with a passion for quality! Patient Safety and Risk Management Managers

·         Staff involved in the NABH, NABL, JCI and other Accreditation processes

·         Clinical Directors and Heads of Departments

·         Physicians and Surgeons

·         Heads of Nursing and other Senior Nurses

·         Clinical Research Managers

·         Healthcare Informatics and IT Professionals

·         Facilities, Estates and Support Services Managers

·         Radiographers, Laboratory, Pharmacy and Scientific Staff

·         THIS CERTIFICATE COURSE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

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·         The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (TSNA):

·         The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (a unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai) is a forerunner and leader in the area of imparting healthcare and health management technology and draws its strength from its parent organizations, Sankara Nethralaya, the Medical Research Foundation and Vision Research Foundation, a State of the Art Research Facility.

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·         Sankara Nethralaya, meaning “The Temple of the Eye”, is a leading super specialty institution for ophthalmic care in India and was founded in 1978 as a clinical arm of the Medical Research Foundation; it is a charitable, not-for-profit institution, located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Sankara Nethralaya has grown tremendously since its inception— thanks to the unconditional and generous support received from all quarters of society — and has gained international excellence for its high quality and affordable eye care services. Its goals include providing quality ophthalmic care at affordable costs to paying patients, free eye care to indigent patients, high level teaching and training initiatives to create an army of capable eye care professionals to combat blindness affecting the population of India.  Today, the institute has over 90 eye care professionals examining around 1,500 patients and performing around 125 surgeries every day.

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·         The objective of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy is to create highly knowledgeable and skilled professionals conversant with every area of healthcare and hospital management, to meet the increasing demand for competent professionals in this segment.

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·         The AHPI Institute of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety

·         The AHPI Institute of Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety is a subsidiary of the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) that supports the Healthcare Sector through competency based certification programs.

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·         The Association of Healthcare Providers (India), AHPI represents the vast majority of healthcare providers in India. It is registered under Society Registration ACT- 1860 as “not for profit” organization. It educates to its members and at the same time, advocates with the government, regulatory bodies and other stake holders on issues, which have bearing on enabling its member organizations in delivering of Universal Health Coverage to the community at large.

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·         AHPI’s vision is to have healthy India, encompassing society,   community and common man at grass root. AHPI strongly believes that the PATIENT as key stake holder needs to play important role in improving delivery of healthcare services. AHPI provides opportunity to patients and associates in giving objective feedback through portal and other similar avenues. AHPI undertakes advocacy for healthcare reforms, infrastructural, taxation, tariff and issues relating to the health insurance. AHPI believes in building capacity in Indian health systems with focus on safety and affordability.

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·         The AHPI Healthcare Certification Centre is other subsidiary body of AHPI, which develops standards for patient safety and quality of care for different categories of healthcare organizations and certifies the compliance to these standards as third party.

·         ACME Consulting, Chennai:

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·         ACME Consulting is today India’s leading Healthcare Quality Consulting Organization. Since its inception in 1996 the Organisation has worked with over 350 hospitals across the country, both in the Private and Government Sectors, to help them establish basic operating systems and improve their quality of services. The team comprises over 35 in-house healthcare professionals and is acknowledged as the largest in the country today. It comprises Quality Experts, Hospital trained Architects, Planners, Administrators, Project Managers, Equipment Specialists and HR Professionals, all being required today for setting up and operating large, professionally run Hospital, as per the best of quality requirements.

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·         ACME’s team of healthcare quality professionals have been providing training programs for over a decade at Hospitals to improve their functioning and aspire for meeting national and international Quality Certifications and Accreditations like the NABH, NABL, JCI and the ISO 9001. Some of the leading Hospitals worked with recently include the Apollo Hospitals at Chennai, Madurai, Vellore, Goa & Mysore, Sankara Netralaya, Adyar Cancer Institute, CHILDS Trust Hospital, Dr. Mehta’s Hospital, MIOT Hospital and the Vijaya Group of Hospitals, at Chennai, Regional Cancer Center, PRS Hospital, PVS Hospital. Elite Hospital and Holy Cross Hospital in Kerala, the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore Hospital and the Mallya Hospital in Bangalore, the Indo American Cancer Hospital and Continental Hospital at Hyderabad, the Peerless and Belleview Hospitals, National Neurosciences Centre and Institute of Neuroscience at Kolkata besides Medical College hospitals like SRM Medical College Hospital at Chennai, SS Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital at Davengare  RL Jalappa Medical College Hospital at Kolar, Father Muller Medical College Hospital at Mangalore and Rajarajeswari Medical College at Bangalore.

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·         ACME Consulting has also worked extensively with Government Hospitals having assisted over 125 Government Hospitals across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh in quality improvement projects.

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·         ACME is the only Quality Council of India approved Consulting Organization for NABH in South India and the highest technically rated Consultancy by the National Rural Health Mission, Government of India.

·         For More Details and Registrations contact:

Mr A Mahalingam

Assistant Registrar
The Sankara Nethralaya Academy
Phone : 4908 6000 (10 am – 5pm)
Mobile : 0 97104 85295 . Fax No : 044 2825 4180
eMail : mahali@snmail.org / snacademy@snmail.org
Web: www.thesnacademy.ac.in / www.sankaranethralaya.org