A surgical anatomy lab inaugurated to train in-house doctors.
The state government is planning to have organ banks in most hospitals and colleges. A law will also be enacted to ensure that heirless dead bodies or cadavers, instead of being wasted, will be used by medical students to study human anatomy and conduct surgeries.
This assurance was given by SA Ramdas, minister for medical education, on Thursday. Opening the MSR Advanced Learning Centre at the MS Ramaiah Medical College and Hospitals, he said: “We have to encourage organ donation and we will soon have a policy enactment, which will ensure that bodies will not be wasted… We will have organ banks in all medical institutions of the state.”
The minister also opened the surgical anatomy lab, which houses cadaver surgical anatomy training lab, where training for in-house doctors will be held. “Even after medical school, physicians must turn to cadaver for final proofs of a surgical technique. For this, the cadaver lab is very useful. For the next generation of medical students, earning the privilege to study a human body is an important part of the transition from student to physician. Students will not only come face to face with death, but also the profound mysteries that reside within the human body,” said Dr DC Sundaresh, president of MS Ramaiah Advanced Learning Centre.
According to the Transplantation of Human Organ Act 1994, a living donor can donate only a kidney, portion of pancreas or part of the liver whereas a cadaver organ donor can donate all organs after brain death.
Unfortunately, 18 years after the act came into force, the idea of organ donation is yet to gain acceptance in India.
SimMan for safe practice
The MS Ramaiah Institute has acquired a simulation mannequin named SimMan 3G for the emergency and critical care lab. This robot has sweat glands, tear glands, feel of a human body and even senses like hearing, seeing and feeling.
Used to train students in life saving procedures, it was brought from Norway. “Various types of heart sounds in health and diseases, the look and feel of various superficial organs, birth, neonatal care and the administration of intravenous and intramuscular injection can all be done on this robot,” said Dr DC Sundaresh.
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