‘Ratio of spine surgeons to patients is grossly inadequate in India’

Coimbatore | Saturday | 14th July, 2018

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The guidelines will be published and will be freely accessible at the click of a button for any surgeon.How is the ratio of spine surgeons to spine injury patients? City-based spine surgeon Dr S Rajasekaran has taken over as the international chair of AOSpine, the largest body of spine surgeons in the world. It has been playing a vital role in the education and research in spine surgery. This is expected to help many young surgeons across the world with clear solutions when faced with such situations. More than 2 lakh patients are benefiting from good spine surgery in the country every year, but they don’t even constitute 25% of people who require such surgeries..