A twenty one member delegation of medical officials of the Russian government visited Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to study its model of providing health care services to masses.

The delegation showed keen interest in organization of the emergency department in case of mass admissions, including traumatology, surgery, radiology ambulance services and diagnostics in the emergency department.

The hospital conducted a Mock Disaster Drill to showcase handling of any disaster for the benefit of the Russian delegation.

“As part of the Moscow Government Business Mission to New Delhi , a 21 member delegation of the medical workers of the Moscow State Healthcare Institution “City Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after Nikolay Pirogov” today (December 11) visited Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in order to study best medical practices of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH)  and to establish working contacts with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital’s doctors and other colleagues,” SGRH said in a statement.

Dr DS Rana, Chairman Sir Ganga Ram Trust Society, said,  “It is a matter of great pride that our Russian friends have shown interest in working at our hospital . The establishment of working contacts between Moscow State Healthcare Institution and SGRH will help in developing academic ties between two institutions. It will also help in furthering academics and research between two great institutions.”

 Dr Ajay Swaroop , Chairman (Board of Management), SGRH, said, “I am sure that this visit will help foster new partnerships between two  healthcare organisations . We are keen to share experiences and expertise with the aim to further bolster the health sector in India and Russia and provide world-class patient-centered care.”

The 21 member Russian delegation was in particular interested to visit the Department of Criticalcare and ICU. Dr BK Rao, Chairman, Department of Critical Care showed them the Department and said, “I am very pleased to know that the standard of patient care in Russian ICUs is very similar to ours.”

Ms Svetlana Ushakova , Coordinator of Russian Delegation said, “We are pleasantly surprised by the unique working model of SGRH where doctors run the hospital on a day to day basis for the last five decades. Also the unique charity model whereby rich pays for poor is also praise worthy.”

Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov was a Russian scientist and medical doctor who is considered to be the founder of the field of surgery.

 He was the first surgeon to use anaesthesia in a field operation (1847) and one of the first surgeons in Europe to use ether as an anaesthetic. He is credited with invention of various kinds of surgical operations and developing his own technique of using plaster casts to treat fractured bones.