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Kolkata hosts international conference, Medicon International 2016, on Advanced Clinical Medicine
19 Dec 2016, 04:48 pm
Kolkata, Dec 19 (NINT): With an aim to exchanging ideas and sharing experiences with trainee doctors, Peerless Hospital and B. K. Roy Research Centre, Association of Physicians of India (West Bengal Chapter) and UK's Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh jointly hosted a two-day international conference on Advanced Clinical Medicine- Medicon International 2016- in Kolkata's Hyatt Regency hotel on Saturday(December 17) and Sunday (December 18).
Managing Director of Peerless Hospital and one of the organising committee members, Dr. Sujit Kar Purakayastha, said during a press conference here, "The principal aim of this conference is to attract a large number of postgraduate trainee doctors and provide them a platform where there will be exchanging knowledge and ideas between various sub-specialties of medicine."
"When healthcare becomes an industry, technology is easily available worldwide nowadays. But our aim is to teach its proper use in particular cases," he added.
Joining the international conference, President of UK's Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Prof. Derek Bell, said, "The two-day conference allows to work together and share experiences with Indian doctors. It will help in facing challenges during treatments in future days."
Talking about alcohol related health problems, Prof. Bell said that alcohol increased the risks of several diseases, including Hepatitis B (HBV) and heart problems.
Adding to this point, Consultant Critical Care of Peerless Hospital & BK Roy Research Centre, Ajoy Krishna Sarkar, said that alcohol problems were everywhere in the world and increasing rapidly.
Commenting on the alcohol related problems, Prof. Purakayastha said, "Alcohol is a major public related issue nowadays. It becomes a common and almost regular practice of middle class people, which has increased alcohol related health problems in India."
All Kolkata-based physicians, however, agreed that there should be a good relationship between doctors and patients, that a patient did never fear the doctor to report his health problem and discuss with the doctor.
Senior doctors also said that the treatment system in India should be organized for a better diagnosis and management.
"Skipping primary and secondary diagnosis, few doctors practise tertiary diagnosis sometimes. We have to change this because it often creates chaos in diagnosis of a disease. Patients are equally responsible for the confusion in treatment," Asokananda Konar, Consultant Gastroenterologist of Kolkata's Peerless Hospital and B K Roy Research Centre, said.
Prof. Sujit Kar Purakayastha said that there was a lack of medicine specialist in India, while number of super specialists were maximum in the current era of healthcare.
"There is a big gap between the demand and supply of doctors in India, which could be reduced by enhancement of proper education," Dr. Purakayastha added.
"Since last few years, we are communicating with the Medical Council of India (MCI) to sort out healthcare related problems and demanding the addition of Dos and Don'ts in the curriculum. It would take long time to be resolved as the problem is bigger," he said.
Dr. Purakayastha also said that Peerless Hospital had already started a 3-year-course on Emergency Medicine.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ajoy Krishna Sarkar suggested the patients to go to a general medicine specialist at first, instead of visiting a doctor with specialization choice.
The two-day event witnessed a huge participation of junior doctor and postgraduate medical students here in Kolkata.
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