The Indian arm of Japanese medtech firm Fujifilm has formalised a partnership with the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Thoracic Oncology Disease Management Group, Tata Memorial Center (TMC), Mumbai for establishing a training facility at TMC. 

This basic and advanced Bronchoscopy training facility at TMC is a step forward in Fujifilm’s objective of combining technological advancement with imparting technical skills to health care professionals. The centre will provide comprehensive training and observership programmes to Pulmonologists from Asia Pacific Region. 

The new training facility will make the pulmonology fraternity abreast of the new technology and help them utilise the same in uplifting patient care standards at their respective locations. Fujifilm India Endoscopy Division aims to strengthen the health standards of the country and empower the healthcare professionals improve patient outcomes with world class training facilities and latest technologies in the country.

TMC not only provides equitable oncology-care access to the region through its multiple centres across India but also imparts training and education through oncology “skillset focused” academic courses under the Homi Bhabha National Institute, a deemed to be University, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. This initiative would not only scale up the existing training programme in basic bronchoscopy, train observers in interventional pulmonology procedures, but also introduce the pulmonology observers and trainees to the niche field of Onco-Pulmonology and educate them on the synergistic role of the pulmonologist in an oncology setup as part of a multidisciplinary team.