Doctors at the Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme organised by Aster Ramesh Academic Alliance and Ramesh Hospitals in the city emphasised the need for exploring advanced procedures and technologies for providing better medication.
Over 300 doctors, medical students from across the State and experts from Karnataka and Kerala took part in the ‘New Horizons in Medicine’, a CME and symposium on robotic surgery and multi- organ transplantation held here.
The programme was inaugurated by Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas who asked doctors to update themselves with the latest technologies in health care sector to provide more accurate and quality treatment.
Dr. Anup Nair, Senior Specialist in Neurosurgery at Aster Medcity, Kochi said that doctors were now able to perform surgeries without much difficulty.
Dr. H.V. Shivaram, Chief of Surgery & Bariatrics, Aster CMI Bengaluru, said that laparoscopy for obesity made the process of cutting down wait an easy procedure and also helps curing side effects of obesity at once.
Dr. P. Ramesh Babu, MD and Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Ramesh Hospitals, said that the future of medication lay in robotic surgeries and other advanced procedures.
He said though such latest technology is not viable for the managements, they reduce burden on the doctors and at the same time provide evidence based scientific procedures.
The programme was organised in association with the Indian Medical Association, Vijayawada.
Doctors also discussed various topics including robotic surgery-past, present and future, advanced cardiac imaging techniques, facing stress in current medical practice and others.
