NEIGRIHMS hosts workshop on advanced image-guided biopsy

Shillong: The department of radiology & imaging at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) here organized a workshop on ‘Image Guided Tissue Sampling Techniques - Principles and Recent Advances on March 29 with over 30 radiologists and residents' doctors from all over Meghalaya in attendance.The workshop was conducted by Dr Binoy Kumar Choudhury, senior consultant from State Cancer Institute, GMCH, Guwahati and a world-renowned specialist in CT and ultrasonography guided biopsies.Prof. Nalin Mehta, director, NEIGRIHMS said, "Given the cancer burden of Meghalaya and Northeast at large, NEIGRIHMS with its Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) has already taken initiative in making sure that patients don't have to travel far and wide for receiving a tissue diagnosis".Prof. Mehta further congratulated the departments in organizing such events and disperse the skill and knowledge amongst the doctors in the region.Prof. C. Daniala, head of the department of radiology and imaging said, "We are a growing community of radiologists in Meghalaya and need to be united in certain practices pertaining to patient care. NEIGRIHMS already has established radiation oncology and surgical oncology departments that need support from trained onco-radiologists".Organizing Secretory and additional professor Dr. Donboklang Lynser added that the meet was a success and that patients of Meghalaya would be benefitted from such academic training activities.