RG Stone Urological & Laparoscopic Hospital , the super specialty urology and laparoscopic hospital in India today announced its tie-up with leading medical equipment developer Lumenis. Under this exclusive tie-up all doctors buying and using Lumenis products will be trained by RG Stone Urological & Laparoscopic Hospital in India . The training program will be of 3 (three) days. At the end of the training program all doctors who underwent the training will be awarded certificates which will be endorsed by Lumenis worldwide.

Mr. Robert Ruck, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Lumenis, was present to hand over the training certificates to the first batch of doctors who completed their training at RG Stone. The focus of the training program was use of Holmium Laser for enunciation of Prostate. In all 5 doctors participated. The doctors who participated were - A/Prof. Chia Sing Joo, Head/Sr Consultant, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Singapore); Dr. Lee Yee Mun, Consultant, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Singapore); Dr. Lim Kok Bin, Consultant & Director, Andrology, Singapore General Hospital (Singapore); Dr. Fong Yan Kit, Consultant, Raffles Hospital (Singapore); Dr. Chua Wei Jin, Associate Consultant , National University Hospital (Singapore). Holmium laser facility is available in AIIMS and Safdarjang hospital in India apart from RG Stone Urological & Laparoscopic Hospital.

On this occasion Mr. Robert Ruck, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Lumenis said, "This is the beginning of a relationship between the two leaders of their respective sector. We are quite impressed with the way RG Stone Urological & Laparoscopic Hospital has pioneered the art of Urological care, stone management, laparoscopic surgeries, lithotripsy, endourology, holmium laser, and Diagnostics in the health care industry. Our technology and their intellect are totally in sync and RG Stone has succeeded in using our equipments to the best of its utility. Together we are proficient of creating excellent equipment training centre and thus creating a benchmark for the industry."

Dr. B.S. Bansal , CMD, RG Stone Urological and Laparoscopic Hospital said in his address, "We are happy to be associated with Lumenis – a world leader in medical equipment manufacturing. This association will broaden the spectrum of our services thus increasing our reach to larger audience. This tie-up is recognition of our intellectual strengths with which we have been able to create landmarks for ourselves in the health care sector. It is our constant endeavor to provide the best of facilities to every individual thus contributing in raising the benchmark and providing quality services."

Dr. Manish Bansal , Joint MD, RG Stone Urology & Laparoscopy Hospital added, "We are proud to have this association with such a distinguished global player. This will help India to leave marks on the global map in the health care sector. While India is contributing enormously in every sector, we are happy to be part of this bandwagon."

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About RG Stone Urology & Laparoscopy Hospital

RG Stone Urology & Laparoscopy Hospital is the first super specialty urology institute in India. Urological care in India took a giant step forward in the year 1986 with the establishment of RG Stone in Mumbai. Under the affluent guidance of Dr. B.S. Bansal, Chairman & Managing Director of the group, it mastered the technique of urinary stone management by keeping abreast with the latest medical breakthroughs, state of the art technologies and international standard equipment. The group has presence in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Ludhiana. To its credit the hospital has done than 1,00,000 surgeries till date from India and abroad. The group has been certified by Guinness Book of World Records for treating the Largest Kidney Stone (13 cms) in the world. RG Stone Urology & Laparoscopy Hospital is fully equipped with State-of-the-art, U.S. FDA approved and International Standard equipments. The group has achieved ISO 9001:2000 Certificate for Lithotripsy, Endourology, Holmium Laser, Laparoscopic Surgeries and Diagnostics.

About Lumenis

Lumenis is a leading developer, manufacturer and seller of medical laser and light-based devices used for a variety of applications with over 250 patents worldwide. It has worldwide presence in over 100 countries. Lumenis is dedicated to improving people's lives with advanced technological solutions for treating their medical and cosmetic conditions. Lumenis commits substantial resources to research and development with its mantra Enhancing Life. Advancing Technology. Lumenis holds 60% market share world wide and 95% in Indian market. It is also installed at the leading institutes of the world like Mayo Clinic, New York Medical College, Royal College of London & John Hopkins.