Pathologist to take outsourcing to new areas
Hyderabad, Feb. 5: Outsourcing may be a bad word for US President Barack Obama. But his speeches against taking business out of America appear to have hardly made any difference to India as it continues to attract entrepreneurs from foreign shores to benefit from its large pool of low-cost talent.
India will add another sector to the outsourcing list, when Mr Narayan R. Raju, a well-known US-based pathologist, sets up his physicians’ training centre — the first in South Asia — in India. The institute will train doctors — who were hitherto sent to developed countries for training — in the use of medical devices, which assist in minimal invasive surgeries. They can also be trained in organ transplantation.
"We need around $5 million over a period of three years for setting up the institute. We have already spoken to a few venture capitalists and also explained our idea to the government, which appeared interested in the project," Mr Raju explained on the sidelines of BioAsia on Friday.
The institute will be a complete surgical suite having cadavers, four operating theatres and all the state-of-the-art equipment.
"Any doctor, who has an idea but facing a problem can come to us, we will develop a solution," Mr Raju said. Once the funding is arranged, he said the institute will start functioning within six months.
Mr Raju, who operates a world class Pathology Research Laboratory in San Francisco, hopes to get all global regulatory clearances for the institute, which could probably come up in Bengaluru, and use it for servicing global customers.
Professor Boris Rubinsky of University of California, Berkeley, said India needs new inexpensive methods for the treatment.
Prof. Rubinsky is credited with several discoveries and is currently working on projects such as new method for treating cancer and extracting power from plants, which can help villagers access cheap power.
Age Correspondent
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