ENT surgeons from UK visit BFUHS

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, April 19

A team of doctors from the Medway NHS Foundation Trust, a public health benefit corporation in England, on Thursday visited Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) Faridkot. Led by two leading ENT surgeons, Dr Manuel Oyarzabal Amigo and Prof. Rahul Kanegaonkar from Medway NHS, the team members sat with doctors and senior functionaries of BFUHS to work out the modalities of an agenda to execute a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for an advanced qualification for ENT doctors from Punjab in surgical medicine in ENT at England. The Medway NHS Trust has offered MCh programme (Otorhinolaryngology), an advanced qualification in surgical medicine to doctors from Punjab, said Dr Raj Bahadur, Vice Chancellor, BFUHS.

During the meeting, Prof. Rahul Kanegaonkar delivered an extensive lecture on vertigo, a problem relating with dizziness and spinning sensation when you turn your head. Kanegaonkar is an ENT surgeon and consultant at the Medway NHS Trust, where he has recently started a one-stop clinical service system for balance related disorders. He has also developed a procedure that allows patients with cholesteatoma (chronic ear disease) to retain their hearing to normal thresholds.

The meeting was also attended by ENT practitioners from across Punjab.

A medical graduate from Spain, Dr Manuel Oyarzabal Amigo, is head and neck surgeon at the Medway NHS Trust. He is known for his extensive clinical experience in rhinology, voice disorders, otoplasty/pinnaplasty and paediatric otolaryngology.

A team of doctors will conduct an interview of doctors at the Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, Mohali, on Friday to select the candidates for M.Ch training programme in England, said Dr Raj Bahadur.

The trust is a public benefit corporation authorised under the National Health Service Act, 2006. It operates a single site hospital based in Gillingham, Medway Maritime Hospital, serving a population of more than 4,05,000 across Medway and Swale. Dr Jasdev Singh Rai, director of Gurseva Trust, England, has played a pivotal role in the interaction between the BFUHS and doctors from Medway NHS Trust.