Docs in Nigeria, India partner on medical advances

Collaboration between India’s Apollo Hospital and the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital is helping to teach local surgeons modern trends in management of urology. Among the new advances are blood tests to catch cancers at early stages when treatment options are most optimistic, according to Dr. Narasimhan Subramanian, consultant urologist at Apollo. “The new advances […]

Collaboration between India’s Apollo Hospital and the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital is helping to teach local surgeons modern trends in management of urology.
Among the new advances are blood tests to catch cancers at early stages when treatment options are most optimistic, according to Dr. Narasimhan Subramanian, consultant urologist at Apollo.
“The new advances in terms of the blood tests and scans we do, make us diagnose these tumours much earlier than you would otherwise understand,” he said at a workshop for continuing medical education for doctors at UATH.
“Developments have continuously happened in urology over the last hundred years,” Subramanian explained.
“We are trying to highlight those segments of development in urology which would make patient care easier either in terms of  diagnosing the condition early or introducing treatments which are less invasive so that we reduce the pain, the duration of hospitalisation, ensure they return to work early and the amount of pain and the amount deformity negligible.”
Up to 100 doctors took part in the skills workshop to share techniques and methods with Indian doctors.
Subramanian said all skills from modern developments to the field are transferable, but would require some infrastructure set down for doctors to get hands-on experience through telemedicine and replicate same surgeries in Nigerian hospitals.