Ludhiana, March 16
Labour analgesia, commonly known as painless delivery, was safe for the mother and the child, said Dr P. Chari, PGI, Chandigarh. She said that the Indian belief that the mother and child developed a bond due to the pain mother goes through childbirth was baseless.
She was speaking at an CME on the advancements of regional anaesthesia, organised today at Christian Medical College & Hospital (CMC&H). An oration in the memory of Dr Frank N. Prior, an eminent anaesthetist and former Head of Department of Anaesthesia, was also organised on the occasion. Mr Chander Shekhar, IGP, Punjab, inaugurated the programme.
Giving details of the CME, Dr Lalita Afzal Head, Department of anaesthesia, said that it was Dr Prior’s dream that the techniques of inducing anaesthesia should be developed and enhanced keeping in view the difficulties an independent anaesthetist faced who did not have any institutional support and had to work with limited facilities.
Dr I.O. Samuel, an anaesthetist from Belfast, UK, and one of the first students of Dr Prior, today delivered the second Dr Frank Prior oration. He spoke about the advances in intensive-care medicines which was a subject close to Dr Frank Newton Prior’s heart.
About 150 anaesthetists from Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and New Delhi attended the CME. It ended with an interactive session between the audience and the faculty. Dr S.N. Tiwari, Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana, also attended the
CME.
