Maiden bone dissection workshop held in GMC&AH Rajouri.

GNSONLINE RAJOURI
SHYAM SOOD

RAJOURI, JUNE 09:—First of its kind in the Jammu Division, a workshop on Temporal Bone Dissection was organised on Thursday by the Government Medical College & Associated Hospital (GMC&AH) Rajouri.
The temporal bone dissection procedure involves harvesting the bone from a human cadaver and storage in formaldehyde. It is mounted securely in a bone holder in the same position as in actual surgery and dissected using a surgical microscope and a micromotor drill.
The ENT & HNS Department of Government Medical College headed by Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Gupta organised the workshop under the overall supervision of Principal Prof. (Dr.) Shashi Sudhan Sharma.
Prof (Dr.) Padam Singh and Prof (Dr.) Sonika Kanotra from Government Medical College, Jammu were the guest faculty member, while Dr. Ghulam Ali Shah, Former Principal of GMC Rajouri was the Chief Guest of the event.
Other Doctors and members of ENT & HNS Department, including Dr. Vidushi Badyal, Associate Professor ENT & HNS; Dr. Mukhthar Ahmad Khan, Assistant Professor ENT & HNS; Dr. Ajaz Malik, Consultant ENT & HNS were members of the organising committee of the workshop.
The staff of Associated Hospital (district hospital) headed by Dr. Mehmood Bajar, Medical Superintendent, GMC&AH also took part in the workshop.
Besides faculty, the event was largely attended by post-graduate students of GMC Jammu, ASCOMS, and other peripheral institutions of J&K UT and undergraduate students from GMC Associated Hospital Rajouri.