Symposium Brings Participants Together After Three Years

The Radiology Across Borders (RAB) Pacific Symposium provided refresher knowledge and gave participants useful insights to the current and future of radiology.

The two-day event featured leading speakers from across the Pacific including Australia and Canada.

Chief Medical Officer (Lautoka) Radiology Department Dr Sylvia Defensor said: “Confidence in the practice of body imaging is developed through these educational activities and also presented new imaging techniques (MRI and Nuclear Medicine) which will soon be available at Lautoka Hospital as part of our ongoing program to improve healthcare for all Fijians.”

Symposiums as such, she said, helped maintain their Radiology certification which was an essential part of the annual practising license with the Fiji Medical Council.

She said the four new state-of-the-art Philips X-ray machines recently installed at Lautoka and Ba public hospitals have boosted their services.

“The new machines will provide the radiology teams with more precise reporting and elevate the level of service to the public,” she said.

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