AIIMS to hold 12-day ARTP training course in New Delhi

MUMBAI: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi is going to hold 12-day short term training course “Asia Region Training Programme (ARTP) for MODS, NRA and CRI”. The training course will be started from September 03 to September 14, 2012 at TB Laboratory, AIIMS.

The main aim of this training course is to awake the application and implementation of the NRA, MODS and CRI techniques for easy, quick and economical detection methods of M. tuberculosis isolates in low resource laboratories/developing countries.

Prof. Sarman Singh, course director of ARTP and head of division of clinical microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS stated, “After this training course clinical microbiologists or mycobacteriologists will be able to carry out high quality practice in the field, management of MDR-TB in their representative countries and will be able to train others in these methods based on experience gained during this training course.”