PGI to hold GI Emergency Programme for young docs

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 1

The fifth PGI GI Emergency Programme, which will focus on training postgraduates from all over the country, begins here tomorrow.

Prof Usha Dutta, head of the Gastroenterology Department, at the PGI said: “We realised that patients who come to the emergency in any hospital in India need evidence-based efficient care to improve their survival. Patients, when they come to the emergency, need expedient management to be instituted at the earliest to improve their outcomes.”

The postgraduate residents (MD/DM/DNB/MS) are usually the first contact to the patient. They are in their training process and in difficult cases need to consult senior faculty in order to streamline the management. This results in loss of time which is precious, said Professor Dutta.

“This gap in the Indian medical education process needed to be bridged so we made a mobile app for GI emergencies, which was launched in the year 2016 during our first PGI GI Emergency Programme,” she said.

The conference, which is an important event for training young doctors in management of GI emergencies, will be guided by Prof R Kochhar, she informed.