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Recertification of doctors sought

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The government should have a mechanism of recertification of doctors to ensure that they constantly upgrade their skills and update their knowledge, senior surgical gastroenterologist N. Rangabashyam said here on Sunday.

Speaking at the inauguration of the liver transplantation work-up and follow-up clinic of MedIndia Hospitals, he suggested that the government increase the retirement age of doctors working in the public sector to 65, now that the government was planning to open more medical colleges.

Such doctors would not hold the post of the head of the department but only teach students, he said.

‘Educate public’

Health Secretary V. K. Subburaj urged doctors to educate the public on ill-effects of consuming alcohol, one of the main causes of liver damage. In the past three months 15 cadaver transplants were done in which 26 persons had received kidneys and 11 persons liver transplants in the State, he said. “We need to promote live liver transplants. Skilled medical and paramedical force and the hospital facilities could be used to encourage such transplantations,” he said.

Tracing the evolution of live liver transplantation, A. S. Soin, chief transplant surgeon of Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, said the success rate at the hospital in the last few years was 93 per cent.

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