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Jaipur to host Indo-U.S. paediatrics summit

JAIPUR: Paediatricians from India and the U.S. will explore the areas of mutual interest and exchange innovative ideas for greater cooperation at an Indo-American summit in paediatrics being organised here between August 1 and 3. About 70 experts of international repute are expected to address the conference.

The three-day event will be organised jointly by the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) and the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP), providing a rare opportunity to the doctors of the two countries to touch new horizons in the specialised branch of medicine.

Noted Jaipur-based paediatrician and organising secretary of the conference, Ashok Gupta, told reporters here on Sunday that the U.S. doctors had started showing a keen interest in the paediatric practices of developing countries in view of the occurrence of “unfamiliar diseases” in their country due to increasing global movement of people.

“Children in the U.S. are only affected by viral infections, while there are a host of complicated diseases afflicting toddlers in the tropical countries,” said Dr. Gupta, and added that the conference would especially help the young American paediatricians to diagnose and treat the ailments they were not aware of.

Dr. Gupta said the reluctance of the U.S. medical practitioners to adopt the therapies of developing countries had led to a delay of 20 years in the introduction of the simple practice of giving oral rehydration salt (ORS) to children for treatment of diarrhoea.

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