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” First phase of plant will be functional in 2021 and is part of Sami-Sabinsa Group’s strategy to expand existing ingredient growth and focus on new innovative products”

Bengaluru, January 29, 2020: A pioneer and global leader in health science and nutraceuticals, Sami-Sabinsa Group today announced the launch of its new manufacturing facility at Pharma SEZ Industrial Area, Hassan, Karnataka. The first phase of the plant will house a 40,000 square metres world-class Active Nutraceutical Ingredients (ANI) manufacturing unit, with an annual capacity of 300 tons and will be functional by 2021. The new facility with a planned investment of Rs. 200 crore is part of the Sami-Sabinsa Group’s growth strategy.

Speaking at a press conference held in the city today, Dr. Muhammed Majeed, Founder & Chairman, Sami-Sabinsa Group said, “World over, consumers are seeking alternatives to better health and looking for food and beverages that supply all their nutritional needs. As the pioneer and among the few Indian companies to have created a global market for patented formulations in the health space, we are committed to a research- oriented, science-based approach towards developing products that make lives healthier and better. The upcoming facility at Hassan, is a reinforcement of this commitment. The new unit when operational will play a pivotal role in boosting our exports further and help us to double our revenues. The first phase, once functional in 2021, will provide employment to around 400 qualified workforce in the fast-growing industrial region of Hassan”.

Mr. V.G Nair, Director & CEO, Sami-Sabinsa Group added, “Sami-Sabinsa’s new plant is designed to be world-class, meeting international standards & requirements and will house a high quality, environment-friendly Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) facility ensuring energy efficiency, responsible water management and biodiversity development. The ANI facility is 100% CGMP and regulatory compliant”. The Hassan plant is Sami-Sabinsa Group’s sixth global manufacturing facility, in addition to its current units located in Peenya, Dobaspet, Kunigal, Hyderabad, Nelamangala and USA. When fully functional, the new plant will not only expand the Group’s overall manufacturing capacity but also strengthen Sami-Sabinsa Group’s ranking as among India’s foremost and largest global nutraceuticals major.

SAMI-SABINSA GROUP According to latest industry reports, the global market for nutraceuticals is set for robust growth. It is expected to reach $373 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 7.5%, as per PMMI Business Intelligence report. The Indian nutraceuticals market has flourished to a $3 billion industry and is forecast to touch $8.1 billion by 2022.

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Karnataka, India, 13 December 2019 – First Response Emergency programme, a collaboration between the Government of Karnataka, Singapore Health Services & Temasek Foundation, the largest public healthcare cluster in Singapore, concluded today at the event held at Hotel Hyatt Centric Bangalore. More than 370 healthcare professionals from Karnataka, India, are now equipped with enhanced specialist skills that will allow them to provide better emergency treatment to patients during life threatening medical emergencies.

The symposium bought together more than 150 delegates, including the Health Secretary of Karnataka, ministry health officials as well as hospital senior staff. Experts from Singapore and Karnataka were involved in the First Response Emergency Programme and shared their perspectives on topics in the area of pre-hospital emergency care.

Commenting on the occasion Shri Jawaid Akthar IAS., Principal Secretary to the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Karnataka, said, “36 Specialist Doctors and 4 Staff Nurses of the Department, visited Singapore in May 2019 to witness and learn on the learnings and services given by Singapore Health Services on pre-hospital emergency healthcare. The training was conducted after detailed assessment by the Singapore Health Services Emergency Medicine Experts with well-structured class-room and hands-on training modules. This has given rise to 52 Master Trainers in the Department, who are bestowed the responsibility to train the remaining Doctors and Staff Nurses in their hospitals. The Department is also strengthening the Ambulance services of the Hospitals across the State”

Associate Professor Chua Yeow Leng, Group Director, International Collaboration Office, SingHealth, said, “SingHealth is privileged to have worked with the Government of Karnataka and Temasek Foundation on this programme to improve the timeliness and quality of emergency care in Karnataka. This three-year programme has provided learning opportunities for both healthcare teams to sharpen pre-hospital emergency care skills, bringing long-term benefits to our respective communities.”

Mr Benedict Cheong, Chief Executive of Temasek Foundation International, said, “By bringing together health care leaders from Karnataka, India, and Singapore to share and learn from each other, we hope that the programme has enhanced capabilities in the area of emergency care and medicine for both communities. Beyond that, we hope that the connections formed during the programme will endure and lead to more meaningful collaborations between Karnataka and Singapore in the future”.

Ms. Vijaya Rao, Senior Director – Programme Development International Collaboration Office, SingHealth, said, “Overseas training programmes are great opportunities when it comes to Emergency Care, as it paves the way for mutual learning and gathering of knowledge. With this being said, our counterparts in India can gain clinical knowledge and develop their skills that will save lives of those in need. Through the alliance now established between Karnataka and Singapore, we at SingHealth intend to adopt a low-cost approach in order to counter rising healthcare costs, as well”.

Launched in 2016, the programme was designed to equip healthcare professionals in Karnataka with advanced emergency care skills to effectively manage emergency patients within the critical ‘Golden Hour’ (the period of time following a traumatic injury) to improve survival outcomes.

As part of the programme, the participants were also trained in Basic Cardiac Life Support so that they can provide timely treatment during cardiac emergencies. A select group of more than 50 healthcare professionals also underwent additional Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) training, making them the pioneer group of healthcare professionals in the public health sector of Karnataka to be trained in ACLS. With ACLS training, participants will have advanced medical skills that will allow them to provide emergency treatment during life threatening medical emergencies such as severe cardiac arrests situations.

A team of healthcare professionals from SingHealth led by Professor V. Anantharaman, Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, conducted skills training workshops in key topic areas such as Emergency Critical Care and Protocols, Emergency Resuscitation Care and Emergency Medical and Nursing Care.

In May 2019, 30 people participated in the program in which 10 were selected as Master Trainers to undergo a one-week training at the Singapore General Hospital to gain further insights into Singapore’s emergency care management system. Together with ten healthcare leaders from the State Institute of Health & Family Welfare, they also visited Singapore Red Cross and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to observe community first aid teaching methodologies and the SCDF’s Emergency Medical Services protocols. On returning to Bangalore, the Master Trainers had 100 Emergency Medical Technicians trained to equip them with the necessary skills to manage and respond to calls from the public.

With the successful completion of the programme, the Master Trainers will go on to train more specialists in Karnataka to multiply the benefits of the training.

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Bangalore, India, 2 November 2019 Healthcare leaders and specialists across Karnataka and Singapore mark the successful conclusion of a three-year collaboration between the two countries on antenatal and child healthcare in Karnataka at a healthcare symposium today. The three-year capacity building initiative has successfully trained nearly 180 Indian healthcare professionals across the Southern Indian state and as a result, at least 100,000 pregnant mothers and newborns have benefited from better quality healthcare services.

The Enhancing Maternal and Child Health Services (EMCH) Programme is a three-year specialist programme implemented by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) in partnership with SingHealth and the State Institute of Health and Family Welfare (SIHFW), Government of Karnataka. The EMCH Programme was designed to help augment the government’s efforts to tackle preventable causes of both infant and maternal deaths, with the aim of reducing infant deaths and ensuring safer pregnancies for more women.

Since 2016, A/Prof Tan Hak Koon, SIF Specialist Team Leader and Senior Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, SingHealth has led a team of multi- disciplinary healthcare professionals from the Singapore General Hospital to work with their Indian counterparts in government healthcare institutions in 26 districts across Karnataka including Bengaluru, Belgaum, Mysuru, and Shivamogga to reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). [Please refer to the project factsheet for more information on the project.]

These efforts also contribute towards achieving the larger UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 of Good Health and Well-Being, where the global goal is to bring the MMR to 70 per 100,000 live births and IMR to 12 per 1000 live births. In India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s has set goals of achieving an MMR of 100 by 2020 and IMR of 28 by 2019. Karnataka’s commitmernt to improving the reproductive and child healthcare systems has helped surpass these goals with an MMR of 70 and IMR of 254 and respectively

“The overall health and well-being of our society is reflected in having a robust healthcare system for pregnant mothers and infants. Through the SIF and EMCH Programme, we have been able to address gaps in the antenatal care and have made improvements in our journey to providing better services and creating a reliable, sustainable healthcare environment for our citizens. We are heartened that the collaborative efforts by our Indian doctors and their Singaporean counterparts continue to reap positive effects in bringing down our MMR and IMR,” said Dr Rajkumar N, Deputy Director (Maternal Health), Department of Health and Family Welfare Government of Karnataka.

Over the three-year EMCH Programme, the doctors, nurses, public health leaders and officials from Karnataka had the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience with their Singaporean peers through a series of training workshops, a symposium and a study visit to Singapore. All parties gained valuable insights and perspectives from the learning exchange. Among the trained pool of healthcare practitioners, 31 Master Trainers were identified and received additional training on how to cascade their knowledge to their peers in the industry.

As part of the programme, a half-day Symposium on Labour Room Management will be held at the Lalit Ashok Hotel in Bangalore today. Organised by SingHealth, the Symposium is expected to draw more than 150 delegates, including clinicians from the field of obstetrics & gynaecology, as well as ministry health officials. Experts from Singapore and Karnataka will share their perspectives on topics in the area of maternal and child health.

Professor Ivy Ng, SingHealth’s Group Chief Executive Officer, said: “SingHealth is privileged to have worked with the SIF and SIHFW, Government of Karnataka on this programme to reduce infant and maternal mortality and morbidity rates in our respective communities. Our multidisciplinary team of obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives and senior nurses has benefited from the sharing, camaraderie and knowledge exchange as they interacted with the healthcare teams in Karnataka.

” SIF’s Executive Director Jean Tan said, “The EMCH Programme brought together the medical communities in Singapore and Karnataka to help raise standards of MCH in Karnataka which has since benefitted 100,000 pregnant mothers and newborns. This impact delivered entirely by a team of volunteers from SingHealth who have given generously of their time and talent and their counterparts in Karnataka – bears testament to SIF’s vision of making friends for a better world.”

The EMCH Programme is yet another collaborative project in India in healthcare-one of the key focus areas of the SIF’s work – and joins the ranks of similar maternity and child health programmes in Tamil Nadu (2009 2013) and (2015 2018). It also marks another milestone in the 24-year friendship between the SIF and India to uplift lives and build enduring friendships between our peoples.

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ಭಾರತೀಯ ರೋಟರಿಯ ನೂರನೆಯ ವರ್ಷವನ್ನು ಆಚರಿಸಲು 21 ಡಿಸ್ಟಿಕ್ಸ್ 3190 , ರೋಟರಿ ದೃಷ್ಟಿ 2020 ಎಂಬ ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠವಾದ ಮುಂದಾಳತ್ವವನ್ನು ಉಪಕ್ರಮಿಸಿದೆ .

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ರೋಟರಿ ದೃಷ್ಟಿ 2020ರ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಉದ್ದೇಶ – ಗುರುತಿಸಿದ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅಂಧತ್ವವನ್ನು ತಡೆಗಟ್ಟುವುದು . ಎಸ್ಸಿಲಾರ್ ವಿಷನ್ ಫೌಂಡೇಶನ್ ಹಾಗೂ ಆರೋಗ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಕುಟುಂಬ ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ ಕೇಂದ್ರ , ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಇವರು ಈ ಬೃಹತ್ ಯೋಜನೆಗೆ ಸಂತೋಷದಿಂದ ಕೈಜೋಡಿಸಲಿದ್ದಾರೆ .

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*ARTIST to use digital platforms to train frontline healthcare providers to deliver quality care, nationally.
*Will leverage technology to transform healthcare challenges and opportunities.

Bengaluru: Hospitals and healthcare organizations are increasingly collaborating with technology specialists to digitize and scale elements of their service framework and interface. Technology is positively transforming various elements of healthcare delivery, facilitating skill development, removing bottlenecks, widening accessibility, and is gradually democratizing healthcare.

A decade and a half back, ARTIST – Asian Institute for Research and Skill Transfer a platform for excellence in women’s healthcare research and skilling founded by internationally recognized obstetrician and gynecologist and former FOGSI ambassador to FIGO Dr. Hema Divakar, in association with Karuna Trust and Govt of Karnataka, launched First Referral Unit in Santhemarahalli a rural geography. The pilot project ‘Panchami’ a centre of excellence for Maternal and Child Healthcare, focussed on training the frontline healthcare providers to deliver quality women’s healthcare. As a result, pregnancy delivery scaled up from 10 a month to over 350 a month. What differentiated ‘Panchami’ was its protocol driven quality of care leading to remarkable outcomes. It fostered trust among women.

“The success of First Referral Unit model encouraged us to replicate the program in remote rural geographies of Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan in association with Skill India. Karnataka ranks lowest among the South Indian states in the delivery of quality maternal healthcare and neonatal care. Our mission is to change that and ensure irrespective of where women go, they should receive quality healthcare. In association with Govt. of Karnataka we are now seeking collaborations and partnerships to scale the model in both private and public healthcare systems across Karnataka through Digital Platforms. Subsequently the same model will be replicated in other states too.” emphasized Dr. Hema Divakar, Chairperson and CEO of ARTIST speaking at the National Health Summit -2019 on ‘Transformation in healthcare challenges and opportunities’ organized by Private Hospitals & Nursing Homes Associations (PHANA).

Skilling is another key aspect that technology is making possible today at a large scale and has gained significance in India aiming to improve the ratio of healthcare providers and patients. “For the 30 million deliveries that happens in a year in India, at least 1 million skilled healthcare providers are required. Ever since the founding of ARTIST Skill Gurukool in 2007, we have conducted digitally delivered and technology assisted skills training programs, capacity enhancement workshops, which have helped over 10,000 ObGyns with online certification courses, 1,000 paramedics and 5,000 students in enhancing their capabilities and gaining hands on experience through skills transfer courses on a variety of topics related to women’s health care. ARTIST will also, continue to train healthcare providers to adopt a digital engagement framework to complement the conventional patient engagement system so as to help them scale their accessibility.” added Dr. Hema.

Although the Indian healthcare system may be comparatively slower in leveraging new technologies, for many people in urban, semi urban and rural areas the digital
world has become a way of life due to various factors like Digital India, the availability of low-cost mobile phones & internet connectivity and operating systems in regional languages. Some rightly insist on getting “state of the art” digitally delivered healthcare and for others it’s an opportunity to get quality and affordable healthcare at a larger scale.

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