Docs from 3 nations on outreach mission

PUNE: Doctors from three different countries are set to perform live surgeries on poor patients as a part of the outreach mission of Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons (GURS), an international body of urologists specializing in reconstructive surgery of genital and urinary problems.
The surgeries will be performed at the Kulkarni Reconstructve Urology Centre located on Paud Road and will be transmitted live to 300 urologists and 20 foreign delegates at the reconstructive urology workshop at Devang Mehta Auditorium on Senapati Bapat Road on July 20 and 21.
City-based urologist Sanjay Kulkarni, who is the first Indian to be elected as the president of the GURS for 2013-14, took the initiative to conduct the programme.
Addressing reporters on Wednesday, city-based urologist Sanjay Kulkarni said, "GURS has been organising its annual outreach programmes across the globe. The main objective of these programmes is to help the needy patients get free treatment and to enlighten urologists about the latest techniques in genitourinary reconstructive surgery. I have been recently elected as the president of GURS and as a responsibility, I thought we should organise an outreach mission programme to treat needy patients from in and around Pune as we have seen a huge increase in such patients over the years."
"As part of the mission, we have offered to perform all the surgeries free of cost at our institute," he added.
The three doctors, who have come forward to perform the surgeries, are Alan Morey (US), the inventor of Ventral onlay Buccal Mucosal Graft for stricture urethra, Guido Barbagli (Italy), the man behind the invention of dorsal onlay buccal mucosa graft for stricture urethra and Sanjay Kulkarni, who initiated pan urethra onlay buccal mucosal graft for stricture urethra.