3-Day HIV training for RIMS Resident Doctors

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IMPHAL, June 5: Prof S Sekharjit, Director of RIMS today inaugurated a 3-day training on HIV care for the resident doctors of ART team of Medical colleges in Manipur at the conference hall of the medicine department of the hospital … Continue reading

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IMPHAL, June 5: Prof S Sekharjit, Director of RIMS today inaugurated a 3-day training on HIV care for the resident doctors of ART team of Medical colleges in Manipur at the conference hall of the medicine department of the hospital in which doctors from RIMS and JNIMS took part, said a press release.

According to the statement, the training is being organised by the Department of Medicine, ART centre and Centre of Excellence. RIMS is one of the 10 centres of excellence in India.

It said, “Prof Sekharjit said that other doctors will also be accommodated in the training programme  in future in a phased manner. He said that 21 new doctors in RIMS will be given a chance in the training soon. HIV patients should be attended to without discrimination”.

Further according to the statement, he had also stressed on the socio-economic aspects of the problem since the patients who are usually from the lower income group should be given some sort of source of income. He also said that the participants should do self-assessment after the training. Such trainings shall go a long way  in training the doctors in the management of HIV patients, it continued.

It has also mentioned that the ART centre in RIMS was opened in 2004 and so far over 5000 persons had been screened. Prof Arunkumar, Medical Superintendent urged the MACS Director Dr SK Chourasia, to make medicine and non-medicianl items available in the ART centre. Prof S. Bhagyabati, head of Medicine department said that the training is for the benefit of the HIV patients, it concluded.

 

 
 

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