Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair inaugurated a tele-neurosurgery facility at Manipal Hospital in Banglore.
This was followed by a live surgical workshop on disc nucleoplasty conducted by Med Rainer Dunnebell from Germany along with neurosurgeons of the Manipal Institute of Neurological Disorders (MIND).
Mr. Nair said, "ISRO has brought space technology down and, in the form of telemedicine, today healthcare is reaching the masses.The tele-neurosurgery facility will allow access to consultants working in the neurosurgical intensive care unit at the hospital.
Consultants at the hospital will also provide regular telemedicine consultation for all neurological problems faced by physicians or neurosurgeons at peripheral centres and enable them make appropriate clinical decisions. The unit will provide continuous medical education too in the form of talks, workshops and live surgical demonstrations.
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