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Cancer expert Raghu Ram receives FRCS of Thailand
Well-known breast surgeon and Padma Shri awardee P Raghu Ram has been conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of Thailand.
Hyderabad: Well-known breast surgeon and Padma Shri awardee P Raghu Ram has been conferred the Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of Thailand.
Raghu Ram, also the president-elect of the Association of Surgeons of India, received the honour at the 44th Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal College in Pattaya.
Over 2,000 delegates from all over Thailand and world-renowned surgeons from 20 countries are participating in the conference. Raghu Ram was honoured in recognition of efforts that paved the way for improving the delivery of breast healthcare in India.
Delivering key-note address at the conference themed "ASEAN collaboration in value-based surgery", Raghu Ram outlined South Asia's largest population-based breast cancer screening programme that he championed under the auspices of the Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation in partnership with the governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Over 3,600 healthcare workers employed with the government were trained to perform clinical breast examination (CBE). They reached out to 200,000 underprivileged women, spread across 4,000 villages in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, between 2012 and 2016, he said.
