Clinical excellence and economic viability are factors vital to
the success of healthcare in South Asia. Modest patient fees require
high technology equipment to be capable of high patient throughput.
Working with leading luminaries in the world, GE is able to pioneer
new areas of clinical excellence.
In this issue we feature the GE Discovery LS which combines the
advantages of PET and CT. These breakthroughs are migrations to
more affordable equipment, be it CT, MRI or Ultrasound. An example
where we have successfully combined clinical excellence with affordability
is the GE OEC Cathlab. More than 25 users have chosen GE-OEC and
we expect more cardiac care centres to go for it.
The need for cardiac care is increasing not only in India, but
also in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. We feature some of the successful
pioneers from these countries in this issue. Mr. Yoshiaki Fujimori
who led GE Medical Systems - Asia for the last four years has
been promoted to lead the GE Global Plastics business. We wish
him success in the new assignment. Mr. Naren Gursahaney who was
Vice President - Service, is the new President of GE Medical Systems
- Asia. We welcome Naren. Thank you for helping us bring clinical
excellence in a viable manner to our geography.
NEW SCHOOL
OF NON-INVASIVE CARDIAC TECHNOLOGY IN BANGALORE
Cardiac technology has advanced rapidly with the latest equipment
and techniques now conveniently available. There is however an
acute shortage of trained technologists. To bridge this gap, Cardiac
Research Academy - the City’s first School of Non-invasive Cardiac
Technologists was inaugurated in Bangalore.
Dr. S.S. Ramesh,
Managing Trustee of the Academy said, "The School has been
set up in association with Wipro GE Medical Systems and Bhagwan
Mahaveer Jain Heart Centre".
Inaugurating the School, Mr. Naren Gursahaney, President & CEO,
GE Medical Systems - Asia said, "GE is committed to Cardiology
and would like to invest in more schools for training".
Mr. R. Ramachandran, CEO - Ultrasound & Marquette, Wipro GE said,
"the company runs Training-in-Partnership Colleges in Radiology
globally. And that, they have a lot of research material that
will be made available for the course to update candidates and
fully use the equipment."
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