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MIOT Hospitals delegation call on Vice-President Danny Faure |16 April 2014

University hospital for Seychelles discussed

 

The setting up of a state-of-the-art university hospital in Seychelles was among issues discussed when the MIOT Hospitals managing director Prithvi Mohandas called on Vice-President Danny Faure at State House yesterday.

Mr Mohandas later told the press that he and Vice-President Faure also reviewed the radiology service at the Seychelles Hospital.

He said a senior consultant from the MIOT Hospitals has already been in Seychelles working alongside the specialists from here and is greatly contributing to the sort of services that the Seychelles Hospital will be providing for the future, noting that there is no backlog in the Seychelles Hospital’s radiology service at the moment thanks to this cooperation.

With regard to plans for the immediate future, he said MIOT Hospitals will collaborate in training graduate doctors as well as post-graduate qualified doctors in particular areas of expertise.

It will also help in sharpening the skills of existing consultants at the Seychelles Hospital.

In addition, MIOT Hospitals will also be looking at training our technical staff so that they are as efficient and as updated as possible.

Elaborating on the university hospital proposal, he said it will not only produce doctors for Seychelles but also treat patients.

“There will be no need to send students overseas to become a doctor and no need to send anybody overseas for medical treatment,” he said.

Dr Mohandas said both of these can be fulfilled if we build a state-of-the art university hospital

with the investment being about US $500,000 per bed in the hospital.

“The aim is for Seychelles to attract patients or medical students from overseas so as to be able to reduce the cost of treatment for Seychellois patients and reduce the cost to train our doctors. If Seychelles has a world class university hospital which is big and of international standards, patients will not have to go abroad for treatment and doctors will love to work there,” he explained.

And to achieve this, he said, Seychelles needs a world class facility and a world class faculty and MIOT Hospitals can enter into partnership with the Seychelles health system to make this happen.

Another topic of discussion with Vice-President Faure was cancer among women, and Dr Mohandas said it has been proposed to run an education and awareness campaign on the subject for six weeks in July.

The principal secretary for Health, Peggy Vidot, said the idea of a university hospital here was discussed   during Vice-President Faure’s visit to MIOT Hospitals in Chennai in February this year.

Discussions on the subject are ongoing to see how this venture will work.

Vice-President Faure was representing President James Michel as chief guest at the 15th anniversary of the MIOT Hospitals. While there he expressed his gratitude to MIOT management and medical staff for the quality of care given to all Seychellois patients since Seychelles started sending patients to MIOT in 2005.

MIOT Hospitals is a leading multi-specialty hospital which has received international patients from over 129 countries.

 

 

 

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