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About DNGM Reserch Foundation

DNGM Research Foundation is a charitable trust involved in clinical and bio-medical research, education and social activities. The important objectives of the foundation are as follows:

Biomedical Research and Education

1. To organize and undertake clinical and bio-medical research.
2. To offer consultancy service by experts of the foundation.
3. To identify common health problems among the people and to undertake studies to ascertain their disease prevalence.
4. To undertake Continued Medical Education (CME) program among medical students and teachers, medical practitioners and health administrators, paramedical personnel and common people.
5. Establish centres for research and mitigation of specific health problems for the people.
6. Maintain reprints of research publications, reference books, thesis and various reports in the library of the foundation office for use by research workers.
7. Maintain records of all research activities carried out by Dr. D.N. Guha Mazumder in the past: namely on Mycotoxicosis, Diphtheria, Small pox, Tetanus, Diarrhoeal disease, Tropical sprue, Giardiasis, Ascariasis, Dyspepsia, H. Pylori, Liver Fibrosis and portal hypertension, viral hepatitis and arsenicosis.

Social Activities

1. Establishment of health clinics in rural and urban areas.
2. Mitigation programme on chronic arsenic poisoning including awareness generation, case detection and treatment, training of personnel and facilitation of safe water supply in arsenic affected areas.
3. Imparting education to under privileged people.

Current Activity

A. On the problem of arsenicosis in India and abroad

As millions of people in various parts of the world including India are afflicted with the environmental catastrophe caused by consumption of arsenic contaminated groundwater, causing immense health hazard, the foundation is involved in mitigation of the problem in the following areas:
1. Case detection by home visit and organising health camp in arsenic affected areas.
2. Awareness generation among the people regarding health effect caused by chronic arsenic toxicity and its mitigation strategy.
3. Training of Medical teachers, doctors and health administrators, paramedical personnel and common people on health effects of arsenic toxicity and its mitigation.
4. Research on arsenic toxicity.
5. Consultation service to scientific workers and national and international organisations.
6. Running arsenic clinics in rural hospitals in the affected areas and in a referral hospital in Kolkata.

B. Continued Medical Education among Medical Practitioners

The foundation conducts Continued Medical Education (CME) program for medical teachers and medical practitioners. The topics of the program are:
1. Management and prevention of Acute Viral Hepatitis.
2. Management and prevention of chronic liver disease.
3. Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of chronic arsenic toxicity.

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