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Department of Interventional Neurology Launched at Max Healthcare

Max Healthcare has inaugurated the 'Department of Interventional Neurology' at Max Hospital, Saket. The department has been launched with an investment of Rs 5 crore, and will have a core team of India’s best doctors using the most advanced neuro-interventional techniques. The facility will have a capacity of 20 beds, including a nine-bed intensive care unit. The department is equipped with the revolutionary neuro-cathlab with Dyna CT and 3 DRA technology.

As India's first specialised interventional neurology department, the facility will be headed by Dr Shakir Husain, who claims to be the first neurologist in India to be trained in neuro-intervention techniques. Said Dr Husain, Director, Interventional Neurology at Max Healthcare, "Interventional neurology is still in a nascent stage, but has many merits for the patient. Striving towards perfection, we aim to make procedures simpler and safer to crack complicated cases. The way treatment has evolved in the last decade and a half, it has further paved a lot of hope for patients today. The survival rate has improved significantly."

There will be a structured one-year fellowship training programme in neuro-intervention for neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuro-radiologists and two 18-month training programmes, specially designed for paramedical staff, training them in dedicated neuro-cathlab work and neuro-cathlab nursing respectively.

Said Prof Dr Valavanis Director, Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Zurich, "With advances in the neuro-scientific knowledge, the basis and the basic understanding of the working and functions of the brain through the technique of neuro-imaging and neuro-intervention open an altogether new level to the genre of neurology, which would further be developed with the opening of the interventional neurology department at Max Hospital."

EH News Bureau