CEMAST to offer 11 specialities for minimal access surgery

In 2017, CEMAST plans to add another nine specialities to the existing eleven

The Center of Excellence for Minimal Access Surgery Training (CEMAST) will offer training in 11 specialities for minimal access surgery. The 11 specialities, being offered at CEMAST include general surgery, gynaecology, urology, paediatric surgery, flexible endoscopy, bariatric surgery, ESS, bronchoscopy, ENT, VAAFT and knee arthroscopy. In 2017, CEMAST plans to add another nine specialities to the existing eleven and those include endospine surgery, neurosurgery, thoracoscopy, advanced ENT, difficult airway, shoulder arthroscopy, VATS, colorectal surgery and hepatobiliary surgery.

Doing the honours for CEMAST for the inauguration of their new centre was Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Power, Government of India, and a host of other dignitaries that included Dr Sybill Storz, Chairperson, Karl Storz. KG, Tuttlingen, Germany, Karl Christian Storz and Professor Sir Alfred Cushieri and Prof Tehemton E Udwadia, Chairman, CEMAST. Goyal praised the state-of-the-art centre and the philanthropic initiatives of Udwadia. Sybill Storz expressed immense satisfaction and appreciation of the rapid strides made by CEMAST in their four years of existence.

CEMAST was started in a modest way in Mahalaxmi in 2012 and in four years has trained well over 4000 surgeons from all over India, many from rural areas, a 1000 nurses working in operation rooms throughout the country, 250 surgeons in Flexible Upper and Lower GI Endoscopy and 150 pulmonologists, anaesthetists, intensivists and thoracic surgeons in bronchoscopy.

EH News Bureau