Medical team from Canada ends health tour at DMCH

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, March 30

An eight member team from William Osler Health System, Ontario, Canada, completed a four day visit to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) under their Global Health Programme – Care without Borders.

This is the second visit by the team from Osler group at the DMCH after an MOU was signed between the two institutions last year.

The visit involved interactions, discussions and deliberations with the aim to improve health care delivery, education and medical research. The vice president at Osler Susan Marie deRyk met Prem Kumar Gupta, Secretary, Managing Society and Dr Sandeep Puri, Principal, DMCH.

The team members observed the activities of the hospital and learnt many practices that they were willing to adopt in Canada. Dr Puri said that the visiting team has also made recommendations to further improve the quality of care available at the DMCH which will be adopted soon.

The DMCH is coordinating the visit said that the main target of this collaboration is to improve health care for residents of Punjab as well as Punjabis settled in Canada. Osler health system offers its services at Brampton, near Toronto, Canada and a majority of patients coming to them are of South Asian origin.

The DMCH and Osler Health System also expressed interest to have a programme for continued medical care of patients who visit Canada and India for long period of time.

Dr Rajesh Mahajan from Department of Medicine said that the two teams interacted and exchanged ideas to take care of patients presenting in the emergency department. Many new opportunities for research were also discussed.

Dr Ranjive Mahajan, Head of Psychiatry and Dr Amlan Das from Osler worked together to analyse and improve systems of care to deal with the menace of drug addiction, child psychiatry services and geriatric psychiatry.