The liver foundation was inaugurated on 20th Dec, 2009 at Gemini continental. The inaugural function was followed by launch of official website for the foundation. A 24x7 active helpline and Foundation’s blog was introduced to make doctors and patient networking effective. A unique software for management of records of patients with liver disease was launched. This software will be regulated amongst all the treating doctors in our network, so that better patient.
Internationally accepted guidelines for treatment of liver disorders were also discussed in order to implement the Foundation’s idea of following uniform line of treatment by doctors. Patients with liver disorders like liver cirrhosis,Hepatitis C were also invited to be part of active interactive session.Various issues related to patient care improvement were suggested and discussed by the doctors.
The need to create a separate body in the form of Liver Foundation was felt in a meeting of Gut Club held on 9th September 2008 in Lucknow. Here several members suggested that liver diseases (LD) have become very common in recent times and hence proposed the creation of a separate body that would concentrate on tackling liver diseases in U.P. The first meeting of liver foundation was held on 18th October, 2008 at Gemini continental to discuss the creation of Liver Foundation, Lucknow and was attended by leading Gastroenterologists and physicians from all over state.
Covered in Lucknow editions dated 21st Dec,2009 of following newspapers:
Hindustan Times
i-NEXT
Rashtriyasahara
Amar Ujala Mycity
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