Bhubaneswar: Keeping aside medication and surgical intervention, physiotherapy has been playing a crucial role in the healing of patients, Prof Brajakishore Das, Additional Director, Medical Education and Training, Odisha government, said on Saturday.
He was speaking at the inaugural session of the international physiotherapy conference being held at Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) in Bhubaneswar. Medical students should realise the importance of physiotherapy as they go through their academic grind, he added.
The conference has been jointly organised by the Physiotherapy department of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of SOA, Utkal unit of Indian Association of Physiotherapy (IAP) and Women’s Cell of IPA.
The session was also addressed by Prof Sanghamitra Mishra, Dean of IMS and SUM Hospital who praised the work being done by the hospital’s physiotherapy department.
Prof Pusparaj Samantasinhar, Medical Superintendent of the hospital, said physiotherapy was aiding the recovery of many patients suffering from cardiac issues and complex problems.
The programme was also addressed by IAP’s national president Dr Sanjeev Jha and president of IAP’s Women’s Cell Dr Ruchi Varshney and Chairperson of the conference Dr Stitipragya Dalabehera who is also Head of the department of Physiotherapy in IMS and SUM Hospital.
