Doctors get brain surgery lessons in ‘workshop at door’
For the first time, doctors of Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College and Hospital, the premier medical institute of Rajasthan, are being trained in brain surgery in an ‘Institute on Wheels’, a bus equipped with state-of-the-art medical facilities.
The bus, arranged by a private firm, Johnson and Johnson Medical India, has been parked on the premises of the SMS hospital. It has the capacity to accommodate 15 students and faculties at a time.
The doctors train on the models of brain.
“The resident doctors and faculties are getting hands on training in three things namely intracranial pressure monitoring, drilling into skull and haemostasis,” informed Dr VD Sinha, a senior professor and head of the neurosurgery department at SMS Medical College.
Elaborating on the issue, Dr Sinha said intracranial pressure monitoring is used to treat severe traumatic brain injury patients.
The medical students can use the drilling machine to drill into the skull and reach the brain. The drilling machine automatically stops on reaching the brain. Besides, haemostatis is a process to prevent bleeding during brain surgery, he said.
Earlier, the SMS Medical College students used to be sent to Delhi and other states for the training.
“Now, through this bus ‘workshop at door’ is being provided to the medical students,” said Dr Sinha, adding that said Johnson and Johnson Medical India has sent the bus on the college’s request.
Apart from Dr Sinha, associate professors of neurosurgery Dr Jitendra Singh Shekhawat and Dr Sushil Acharya are imparting training to the students. Three batches of 15 students each are being trained in a day.
SMS Medical College principal and controller Dr US Agarwal inaugurated the facility.
Citing that such facility was being provided to the students for the first time, Agarwal said that the bus came to hospital on May 23 and will leave on Satur-
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day for Jodhpur, where doctors of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will be trained. It will then go to Udaipur, where medical students of Ravindra Nath Tagore (RNT) Medical College will be imparted training.
The Rs 6-crore bus is fitted with TV screens, audio-video system, camera, air-conditioner, chairs and tables.
Prior to coming to Jaipur, the bus had been to Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Meanwhile, health minister Kali Charan Saraf on Saturday inaugurated the newly-built guest house at SMS Medical College and seminar hall near the principal’s office.
The guest house has four bedrooms, a drawing and dining room built at a cost of Rs 15 lakh.
Dr Agarwal said the guest house will be used for hosting officials of the Medical Council of India and other institutes.