Day: 11 April 2024

Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Department of Command Hospital Pune (Southern Command) has reported the case of a 7 year old child suffering from hearing loss due to severe congenital anomalies of external and middle ear and deafness of one ear (SSD). It has become the first government hospital in the country to procure and successfully implant piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implants by implanting two piezoelectric bone conduction hearing implants (BCIs) in an adult patient. The ENT department of the Command Hospital (Southern Command) is a designated Neurotology Center of…

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The 'Steel Cutting' ceremony of the first of the five Fleet Support Ships (FSS) was held at Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam on 10 Apr 24 in the presence of Defense Secretary Shri Giridhar Armane. Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, Commodore Hemant Khatri (Retd), Chairman and Managing Director, HSL and other senior officers of the Indian Navy and HSL were present on the occasion. The contract with HSL for the acquisition of five fleet support ships was signed in August 2023 and the ships are to…

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