Chairman of City Union Bank S. Balasubramanian inaugurated GE – Discovery IQ Pet CT scan equipment at Sri Ramakrishna Hospital on Friday.
The inauguration took place in the presence of president and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare (South Asia), Terri Bresenham, Chief Operating Officer of Wipro GE healthcare Milan Rao and managing trustee of SNR Sons Charitable Trust, that runs the hospital, R. Vijayakumhar.
Director of Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Oncology and Research P. Guhan said that the new Pet CT scan would enable detection of cancer at an early stage, help to stage the disease, individualise treatment, access treatment response and to detect recurrence of cancer.
Ms. Terri Bresenham said that healthcare providers not only wanted the ability to detect smaller lesions, but also the ability to determine if the patients were responding to the current treatment.
She said that the Discovery IQ Pet CT was the 25 product developed by their team in India by Indian oncologists and academicians for making cancer care easily affordable to the people of the country.
The CEO said that it coincided with the 25 year of GE entering into a joint venture with Wipro.
She said that the hospital was the first in South India to install the state-of-the-art machine that was ranked with gold standard.
She added that they were in the process of making 75 more indigenous products in India.
