Laparoscopic surgery conference

Gem Hospital Director C. Palanivelu (standing second right) explaining a surgical technique to Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam (seated centre) at the inauguration of the laparoscopic surgery conference in Coimbatore on Friday. Rural Industries Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy (seated right) and former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation D.R. Karthikeyan (seated left) are in the picture.Health Minister M.R.K. Panneerselvam said here on Friday that his ministry was working on a health scheme for the poor to provide them with quality medical care.
The Minister said this in response to former Director of Central Bureau of Investigation D.R. Karthikeyan’s suggestion that the State Government could introduce a scheme on the lines of the community eye care programme in Andhra Pradesh with a health insurance cover for the patients.

Indicating a general healthcare scheme, he said that once a final shape was given to it, the scheme would be submitted to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.Inaugurating the city-based Gem Hospital’s institute of minimally invasive cancer surgery, the Minister lauded Coimbatore’s progress in the field of healthcare. Referring to the private medical institutions with modern technology and expertise, he said: “Coimbatore is as good as or even better than Chennai in this field”.Minister for Rural Industries Pongalur N. Palanisamy said that a blindness control programme had been carried out across the State when the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam had been in power earlier (1996-2001). “Coimbatore was even declared a district that was free of mature cataract in 1998,” he said, after inaugurating ‘LaparoSurg 2007’, an international conference on advanced laparoscopic surgery organised by the hospital.

“Though cancer treatment cures only cases that are detected in the early stage of the disease, there is optimism that a total cure for all cancer cases will be found,” he said.In the backdrop of the conference discussing the role of laparoscopy in treating cancer in the gastro intestinal system, Mr. Karthikeyan said healthy diet and avoiding tobacco use could prevent the disease.As much as 13 per cent of deaths caused by diseases were cancer cases. There were 2.5 million cases at any given time in the country. Quoting from studies, he said that by 2015 nine million people would have died of cancer in the country. The number would rise to 11.5 million in 2030. One-third of cancer cases could be avoided through preventive strategies, such as a campaign against tobacco.

Mr. Karthikeyan also stressed the importance of early detection. About 70 per cent of the cases were detected only in the end stages and this impeded success in treatment. Quoting medical experts, he said laparoscopic surgery helped in total cure from cancer and even prevented recurrence.Explaining the purpose of the conference and the new institute, Gem Hospital Director and laparoscopic surgeon C. Palanivelu said the institute would take up both treatment and research. Cases of colorectal cancers were on the rise because of unhealthy diet and hazardous changes in the environment, he said.

Mayor R. Venkatachalam, Deputy Mayor N. Karthik and Director of Vedanayagam Hospital S.V. Kandasami were among those present at the meeting.The Health Minister later visited some wards at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital and enquired about the facilities being provided to the patients.The Rural Industries Minister, District Collector Neeraj Mittal and Dean of the hospital Hemalatha Ganapathy were present.

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