BHUBANESWAR: With application of physics in medical sciences spanning both diagnostics and therapy growing manifold, experts have called for concerted efforts to churn out personnel in the vital field of emerging medicine. Orissa produces more than 250 master degree holders in Physics every year but the State does not have a formal course in Medical Physics. The main reason till now was lack of clinical infrastructure. The shortcomings, however, are fast depleting as more and more institutions with state-of-the-art infrastructure have come up or are being established. With the State Government support and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) approval, a full-fledged course under Utkal University can be started on the basis of public private partnership. Hemalata Hospitals which has advanced infrastructure and latest equipment has come forward to partner with the Government in the field. Chairman and CMD of Hemalata Hospitals Dr AK Rath on Saturday said Medical Physics with its applications in devising diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for complex and difficult diseases, including cancer, has been stamping its presence as a Super Speciality discipline. The medical physicists are involved in calibration of imaging devises as CT scanners, MRI Units, ultrasound systems and PET scanners for diagnostics while implementing treatment with advanced radiotherapy machines like Linear Accelerators in cancer, he said. The hospital on Saturday organised a national conference on “state of the art in medical Physics”, with premier cancer institutes such as Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Centre, New Delhi, CMC, Vellore, Apollo Hospitals, Delhi and Chennai taking part. Dr Sujit Sinha from Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Centre, delivered the Arabindo Bose Memorial Oration. Among others Dr YS Mayya from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Dr PK Dash Sharma of AERB spoke.
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