The Hindu Business Line : Wockhardt Hospital to train Chinese cardiologists

IT'S not just patients from abroad who want to come to India for treatment. Chinese cardiologists, too, apparently want to pick up some skills from their Asian scalpel brethren.

A batch of doctors from Beijing's Tongren Hospital will come to Bangalore to train in interventional cardiology at the Wockhardt Hospital & Heart Institute. They are to undergo a four-week training in angioplasty under Wockhardt's interventional cardiologist, Dr Ramanath Nayak, as part of a collaborative teaching-exchange programme between Wockhardt and Tongren's Cardiovascular Department, according to Dr Nayak and Mr Vishal Bali, VP (Operations), Wockhardt Hospitals.

Along with becoming a preferred healthcare destination, "India is transcending new heights also as an ideal training ground for cardiovascular procedures," Dr Nayak said here. "An increasing number of foreign doctors from China and other neighbouring countries are expressing their desire to visit Bangalore for a hands-on learning experience in new techniques of interventional cardiology."

Apart from training angioplasty, Wockhardt will also train another set of Chinese cardiac surgeons in beating heart coronary bypass surgery under Dr Vivek Jawali. They will participate in the interventional procedures being undertaken in Wockhardt's Cath lab.

Coronary artery disease among Chinese is similar to that in the Indian population and "their cardiologists are keen to learn from us in India and provide the same level of expertise to their patients," Dr Nayak said. He was recently in Beijing as invited faculty at the China Interventional Therapeutics 2005 Congress. He performed a left main coronary angioplasty during a live teaching workshop at the Tongren Hospital, Beijing, and also presented a paper on drug eluting stents.

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