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Laparascopy training to be compulsory for medicos

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI NOV. 11. Training in laparoscopy will soon be made compulsory for all students of medicine, V. Kanakaraj, member, Medical Council of India, said yesterday.

Undergraduate and postgraduates will have to learn the a minimal invasive surgical procedure.

Though laparoscopy was a simple procedure, it could result in complications if proper training was not provided.

Mr. Kanakaraj was participating in a programme organised to release a CD on laparoscopic surgery by the Apollo Hospitals here.

Laparoscopy was being introduced in teaching programmes and machines were installed in the Stanley Medical College and Government Hospital in Chennai, the Rajaji Medical College in Madurai, and the Coimbatore Medical College, N. Thalavai Sundaram, Health Minister, said.

The CD provides information on innovations and describes all laparoscopic procedures carried out in the hospital in the past five years. It will be distributed free to all government medical institutes.

The material would be given to doctors in rural areas also, said B. Premkumar, senior vice-president. ``The CD will help people in rural areas with the knowledge we have gained.''

However, even laparoscopy, a relatively new procedure, was becoming obsolete as robotics was entering medicine, he added.

P.Balaji, Senior Consultant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, said laparoscopy required minimum invasion, involved less pain and allowed for quicker recovery. But the cost prevented laparoscopy scaling greater heights in India. He appealed to the Government to make the equipment available at lower costs.

Preetha Reddy, managing director, Apollo Hospitals, said private institutions had a responsibility to the public and they should be taking efforts in education.

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