Tamil Nadu Medical University Plans MoU With Top Colleges In US

The Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has proposed to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with foreign universities for student and faculty exchange and training programmes. Three universities — Stanford, Harvard and University of California — are being considered for a MoU, said Vice Chancellor S. Geetalakshmi.

She announced this at the inauguration of GECON2016, a conference on ‘Advances in gastroenterology for physicians and surgeons’, organized by Medindia Hospitals. The programme would include medical college hospitals affiliated to the University. The details about the type of training and its duration would depend on the MoU.

Doctors must take up research and innovate, anticipating the complications that diseases could bring in future, she said, adding that student from Sivaganga Medical College had come up with a crude instrument that could be maneuvered externally to do an endoscopic procedure. The instrument had been forwarded to Anna University to be developed further.

The government, through the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme, had enabled to provide free vaccines and tablets for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. As of now, over 700 patients were registered, screened and were being administered treatment, mainly at the Government General Hospital and Stanley Hospital, she said.

T.S. Chandrasekar, founder chairman of MedIndia Hospitals, said the aim of the conference was to highlight the advances in the minimally invasive endoscopic treatment for GI diseases.

The hospital now had the latest spyglass and laser lithotripsy that helped avoid major surgeries. Around 300 delegates participated in the meet.