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Study group on medical research to be set up soon

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Group will aim at evolving ways to boost research

Research group may have seven or eight members
60 leaders of medical profession attend celebrations

HYDERABAD: The Medically Aware and Responsible Citizens of Hyderabad (MARCH) which celebrated its 12th anniversary on September 23 will soon constitute a group to evolve ways and means of giving a boost to medical research in India.

According to P.M. Bhargava, chairman, the set-up of the group, which may have seven or eight members, is to be finalised at the next meeting of MARCH on March 27 here. He told The Hindu that the decision to have such a group was taken in view of the ‘very little medical research being done here’.

Changing activities

The proposed set-up was aimed at changing research activities by giving a boost to them with an inter-disciplinary approach. The decision in the presence of T. Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Vasantha Muthuswamy, Deputy Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) assumes significance in view of 60 leaders of medical profession attending the anniversary celebrations.

Dr. Bhargava said the proposed group would submit a report to DST after assessing the country’s medical research scenario and evolve measures on it could be improved and strengthened.

Work review

The activities on Sunday included a talk by Dr. Ramasami and a review of work done by MARCH. In a significant decision taken at the meeting, Sangeeta Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospital, according to Dr. Bhargava, has agreed to make available its commercial PET Scan machine for research.

A possible areas of study could be to observe how people react to music.

MARCH has several significant national achievements to its credit.

They include setting up a system for accreditation of diagnostic laboratories and preparing, with ICMR, guidelines for accreditation and monitoring of fertility clinics which is in the process of being converted into a Bill to be placed in Parliament shortly.

It had also initiated through ICMR a large-scale study to establish the reference standards for various biochemical and clinical parameters.

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