Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research unveils 3D dissection table and skill lab

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• Inauguration of 3D dissection table at NIMSR Kohima on Thursday. (EM Images)
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• KOHIMA — In a significant enhancement to the teaching, learning and research facility at Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR), Kohima, two new state-of-the-art pieces of equipment—a skill lab and a 3D dissection table in the Integrated Research and Teaching Learning Lab—were launched on Thursday, along with other facilities.
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• Additional Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, S Tainiu, and Joint Secretary, Renabomo Odyuo, inaugurated the two new technologies at the college.
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• Meanwhile, two Mahindra Bolero vehicles for NIMSR under the CSR initiative of UCO Bank were also inaugurated. Narendra Pratap Singh, the Zonal Head of Jorhat Zone, UCO Bank, and Goutam Das, Chief Manager of UCO Bank, Kohima Branch, assured the “best” service to the people of the state.
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• The NIMSR plans to utilise the vehicles in its family adoption programme where doctors, students, and staff visit remote areas. It will also be used as a pool car wherever required and during emergency services, the institute said.

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• The newly launched 3D dissection table is an anatomy learning platform with an integrated one for disciplines like surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, obstetrics & gynaecology and many others, which health professional students can use.
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• Dean-cum-Director of NIMSR, Dr. Soumya Chakraborty, said that the 3D table is one of its kind in the Northeast.
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• She noted the scarcity of cadavers or dead bodies in Nagaland, which can be used for practical purposes. She added that they cannot take dead bodies from the mortuaries or others after autopsies because the organs are disturbed or the freshness of the body is not achieved.
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• Therefore, they have to trust the altruistic donations of the bodies, which are very scarce and practically absent in Nagaland.
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• She added that in her 29 months of service at NIMSR, she did not come across anybody willing to donate a body, which she believes will happen in the future. For the time being, the college has to get bodies from other states of India, which is also a very difficult task.
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• In the three-dimensional dissection table, students in small batches will be allowed to handle and see the various organ positions in the human body. She added that through the new technology, it would achieve holistic knowledge.
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• The facility will be used not only for teaching-learning purposes but also for research and integrated learning, she added.
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• Speaking about the newly launched skill lab, she said the skilled mannequins installed at the labs are like a human body. Overall, it is a holistic lab, an integrated one to be used by all the disciplines from first year to the final year, she said.
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• The director added that they also have a full-fledged communication lab where students can learn by themselves how to handle patients.