The President of the Teaching Eyes Surgery (TES) Foundation of Switzerland, Professor Cyrus Tabatabay, paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, this afternoon, at the New Treasury Building, in Port Louis. He was accompanied by the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Kumar Singh Jagutpal.
In a statement following the courtesy call, Professor Tabatabay highlighted those discussions with the Prime Minister focused on the future of ophthalmic surgeon training in Mauritius. Mauritius, he underlined, has a highly prevalent diabetic population requiring either laser or more complex surgical treatment and these require extensive training. On this score, he added that the number of surgeons being trained is limited, thus, the next generation of surgeons needs to be trained for their profession.
Furthermore, the Professor emphasised that more importantly discussions focused on the creation of a training centre in Mauritius, to be set up partly at the Souillac Eye Hospital so as to allow the treatment of the population in the south region as well as to reduce patient overload at the Subramania Bharathi Eye Hospital in Moka.
