Nagpur: RST Regional
Cancer
Hospital will hold a training session on basic oncology on August 6 which will be attended by over 150 doctors, mostly general physicians and nurses from Nagpur division. The session will be inaugurated by minister for union minister for road transport Nitin Gadkari at 5pm.
Public health minister Dr Deepak Sawant, energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule and mayor
Pravin
datke will be present. On August 7,
a conference has been organized for doctors of Indian Medical Association College of General Practitioners (IMA-CGP).
Addrssing a press conference at RST hospital, deputy director Dr
BK Sharma
said that “the fate of around 70% cancer patients in our country is in the hands of general physician and not an oncologist”.
RSTRCH director Dr Pankaj Chowdhary said that “The aim of holding the training session is to provide taluka health officers and general practitioners, especially in rural areas, with ‘basic oncology’ inputs and develop a line of communication (helpline, mail) and transport to the tertiary care facility.”
Dr
GK Rath
, chief, Dr BR Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, AIIMS, New Delhi, Dr Purvish Parikh, director, POR, Asian Institute of Oncology, Mumbai, Dr AA Ranade and Dr
Amit Bhatt are among the prominent oncologists who will be present at the programme.
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