Kohima: Nagaland Minister for Health and Family Welfare, P Longon Saturday said that “Excellence in diagnosis should be the commitment and mission of pathologists and microbiologists.”
“In this era of emergence of life style diseases, and emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, mankind is safe in your hands,” he said while inaugurating the two-day 25th Annual Conference of North East Regional Chapter of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists (NERC-IAPM) at RCMPA Jotsoma.
Longon said that presently a changing medical technological innovations has emerged that the field of pathology and microbiology must not be ignored.
Expressing that pathologists and microbiologists have the potential to reshape the health care system, he called upon them to seize the opportunity and march in tune with the modern medical technological innovations.
This, he said would add a volume of scale and complexity that requires a new kind of diagnostic procedure which is cost effective, non-invasive, easily affordable, more precise and time saving.
Terming pathologists and microbiologists as the backbone of the national health programmes, he said they are the ones to guide clinical doctors and policy makers towards delivery of health care. Around 100 pathologists and microbiologists from NE attended the conference. (PTI)
