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All steps to give specialist treatment in GHs: Rangasamy

PUDUCHERRY: Chief Minister N. Rangasamy said the Government was taking all steps to give specialist treatment in Government hospitals in the Union Territory.

Inaugurating the continuing medical education programme on “Recent Advances in Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery”, organised by the Madras Medical Mission at a private hotel here, Mr. Rangasamy said the facilities and treatment given in the General Hospital were on a par with any other private hospitals.

However, the Government wanted to give specialists treatment especially for life threatening diseases.

The Chief Minister urged the private medical institutions such as Madras Medical Mission to provide services of specialists to conduct complicated surgeries in Government hospitals.

If the doctors were willing to render their services, the Government would provide all assistance.

He said the Government supported initiative to set up more private medical institutions in Puducherry.

The administration wanted to make available all treatments within the territory, whether in Government hospitals or through private institutions.

Professor M. Ramadoss, Member of Parliament, asked the doctors to find out ways to minimise the cost of treatment.

He said health economics should be made part of medical curriculum. The U.S. Government has introduced the subject in colleges, he added.

The health care sector, because of its socio economic implication on an individual, had become “inter-sectoral”.

If the recent advances in medical sciences had to reach the common man, it had to be economical, Mr. Ramadoss observed.

At the CME programme, cardiologists from various institutions presented papers on subjects such as triofilan in acute coronary syndrome, stemcell therapy, electrical therapy for arrhythmias and heart failure and interventional cardiology past, present and future.

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