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Latest News |
| 27th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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Gujarat emerging as med education hub
Docs From Across World Come To City Hospitals To Get
Trained In Specialised Procedures
Ahmedabad: Gujarat is fast emerging as the destination
for medical training for doctors from all over the world
with specialists coming to city hospitals to get training
in specialised procedures like knee and hip replacement,
endoscopy, IVF, embryology, kidney stone removal and other
complex heart procedures.
This is a reverse trend of sorts as earlier most doctors
from here used to go abroad for medical training. Currently,
a team of five senior orthopaedic surgeons are in Shalby
Hospital to get trained in knee and hip replacement surgeries.
Leader of the group Dr Alan Chuha said that they are surprised
at the volume of surgeries that are conducted in this
hospital which gives them the opportunity to learn more
than anywhere else in the world.
We came here as this centre is considered the best in
India. An average 15 to 20 surgeries are performed here
daily. This has given us lot of exposure in less time
as repetition helps you pick up skills better, said Chuha.
He said that their team chose Gujarat in India over other
countries as the patient profile too here is similar to
patients in their country. We perform large number of
surgeries and last year 4,000 replacements were conducted,
giving doctors the benefit of learning faster and better.
In US, for instance, onetwo replacements are done in a
good centre daily while we do nearly 15 to 20, says Dr
Vikram Shah of Shalby Hospital where doctors from almost
all Asian and African countries come regularly for training.
Doctors say that skilled surgeons along with good infrastructure
and huge numbers of patients is giving Gujarat the edge
when in comes to training personnel from abroad. We get
large number of patients with stones which has given us
more skill. We get urologists from Saudi Arabia, Libya,
Sri Lanka, Turkey, Germany and even US to train in PCNL
technique of stone removal, said leading urologist Dr
Janak Desai of Samved Hospital.
Cardiologist Sameer Dani, who conducts training in procedures
like balloon valvuloplasty and mitral valvuloplasty apart
from cardiac and peripheral angioplasties says that the
potential for medical training is immense.
It is gratifying when we train doctors from France in
procedures which I had learnt in France. We have an edge
in terms of economic cost, skill and great infrastructure,
said Dr Dani, who says that more structured programmes
would follow as more doctors from abroad come here for
training.
Pulse Womens Hospital, conducts open programmes throughout
the year in IVF training for which doctors from African
and Asian countries enrol regularly. Each programme is
of two weeks.
These people chose us over developed nations in European,
US or UK as there they get to see just a few cases as
observers while here they get exposure to a big number
of cases, says Dr Manish Banker, who says that specialised
workshops are also held in endoscopy. He says that there
is a scope in this area and students get trained paying
a fee of US $1,000 to $2,000.
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