COMPUTERISATION : NEED OF THE HOUR.

Medical branches at formation headquarter and certain hospitals have taken into use Personal Computers (PCs) for data entry. Military Hospital Secunderabad has been progressing Project DHANWANTARI which is an on line medical information system. The type of network is host based to be developed into a Local Area Network (LAN).

ABDOMINAL INCISIONAL HERNIAS - A REVIEW OF 50 OPERATED PATIENTS.

Fifty patients (5 men and 45 women) in the age group of 25 to 65 years with abdominal incisional hernia were studied. The most common antecedent cause (in 86 per cent patients) was found to be a gynaecological operative procedure done earlier through a lower midline incision. All patients underwent anatomical repair and were followed-up after repair for an average of 18 months (range 6-32 months).