Indian Bank celebrates Digital India Anniversary Launched Two New Digital Products

Fast growing and well known Public Sector Bank, Indian Bank celebrated Digital India anniversary by launching two new digital products in a function held at Corporate Office.

On the lines of Government of India’s flagship Digital India, launched on 1^st July 2015 with a vision to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, Indian Bank celebrated the anniversary of Digital India and introduced IB Collect Plus and V Collect Plus.

“Initiative must begin at Home and our employees are our Brand Ambassadors”, with these opening lines, Ms. Padmaja Chunduru, MD & CEO, Indian Bank launched the digital products. The idea behind the celebration is to instill confidence in the customers for the global standard banking products the Bank has introduced. She further added all the employees of the Bank should educate the customers and motivate them to use the Digital banking products. 

It is a challenge for the Bank that all the customers should be brought into the fold of Digital Banking as most of the customers are not aware of these products or they are hesitant to use them. It is our duty to inculcate the faith in safe and sound products of the Bank, she concluded.

V Collect Plus is a funds collection product through NEFT, available with offline collection facility with online response. IB Collect Plus is also a funds collection product which can be used without having any website/software. Both the products are supported by robust and safe technology with 24X7 banking facility by Indian Bank.

The Bank is aiming at 100% USAGE of 5 Digital Products available for 24X7 Banking Indpay, Internet Banking, BHIM Indian Bank UPI app, Debit Card and Credit Card.

All the Zonal Offices and Branches of Indian Bank across the country are celebrating Digital India Anniversary which has complete involvement of all the employees. Shri M K Bhattacharya, Shri Shenoy Vishwanath V, Executive Directors, General Managers, Executives and Staff Members were also present during the occasion

LIMA, performs scarless endoscopic breast surgery, a first of its kind technique in South India

What could be very disturbing for a woman is not only being diagnosed with lumps or tumors on the breast but the scar that will remain after surgery. Scars in the breast or neck are hugely damaging to a woman’s self-esteem. Inorder to provide a solution to this, Lifeline Institute of Minimal Access (LIMA) has developed a revolutionary alternative technique, endoscopic breast surgery through which the lumps or tumors from breast can be removed without scars.

For the past two decades endoscopic surgery has dominated the field of general, gastrointestinal, urological and gynecological surgeries. A group of surgeons from LIMA performed an endoscopic lumpectomy for a 26 year-old woman from West Bengal. This is a first of its kind procedure performed in South India.

The principle of endoscopic lumpectomy is to access the breast through the axilla, or the armpit, using its skin lines in order to avoid scars. The target lesion or lump is accessed by endoscopically creating a tunnel of dissection. After removal of the lump, the specimen is taken out through the armpit, leaving no scars at all on the breast. This type of surgery is also known as stealth surgery, as the surgeon steals away the target lump, with no visible scars.

“First popularized in Stanford, there has been very little publication from the Indian subcontinent in this matter so far. Not many were aware of this technique and lots of young women hesitate to undergo a surgery for lump removal or thyroid. However, a series of 13 patients underwent stealth surgery for thyroid disease in the same institution, LIMA, under the same group, and the paper has been sent for publication,” says Dr. J S Rajkumar, Chairman and Chief Surgeon, LIMA Hospital

Women these days are eager to befit, healthy and flawless. Many women who undergo surgical procedures on breast or neck may beparanoid about the scar marks that will affect their looks or self-esteem.“There have been cases of depression post surgeries and women find it tough to cope with the post surgery trauma. Understanding the impact it has on one’s mental health, we have come up with this new technique that not only cures the individual physically, but gives them confidence post-surgery. The procedure requires just one sitting andtherefore very  easy, cost-effectiveand time saving for the patient, says Dr. Anirudh Rajkumar General Laparoscopic & Bariatric Surgeon

The breast and thyroid, so far outside the ambit of endoscopic surgery, are now also within the field of endoscopy, thereby permitting younger and scar conscious patients an option of ‘stealth ‘ or scar less surgery.