Agra (UP), Jan 9: In order to promote medical tourism in the city, a five-day conference of obstetricians and gynaecologists has been organised here from January 13 and will be attended by 6,000 doctors from twelve countries including the US, UK and Pakistan.
The conference, organised by the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society (FOGSI), will lay special focus on women’s health.
Union Health Minister J P Nadda will inaugurate the conclave on January 14.
Doctors from twelve countries including United Kingdom, United States of America, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka would be attending the five-day conference.
Organising Committee Chairman Dr Narendra Malhotra said more than 6,000 doctors would be sharing and exchanging ideas as well as techniques which would go a long way in promoting women’s health in the country.
The conference will see dozens of interactive sessions and live telecast of innovative surgical procedures and operations at three different venues, which would help popularise newly developed techniques with regard to health problems faced by women.
Dr Anupam Gupta, chairman of the Reception committee said the workshops to be held in the conference would focus on deaths during delivery, cancer and family planning techniques.
Medical Council of India (MCI) Chairman Dr S S Agarwal will be addressing doctors and holding discussion on the guidelines for prescriptions and medicines.
In recent years, it has been observed that a large number of medicines are routinely prescribed without checking the list of contra-indications or side and after effects of some of the drugs.
Medical bodies have been issuing guidelines and providing useful information, but patients continue to be administered drugs which are considered unsafe in many developed countries.
Some of the medicines should be carefully prescribed for lactating mothers or diabetic and heart patients, senior doctors say.
The secretary of the organising committee, Dr Jaideep Malhotra said doctors should carefully check what medicines had already been given and in what doses, before writing a fresh prescription.
“This is particularly necessary in the interest of the unborn in the mother’s womb, who could be adversely impacted.
Mothers feeding babies need to be extra careful.
“Medicines can weaken bones or turn teeth yellowish, growth of the spine could be inhibited leading to disability in the child,” he said.
