On 1st May, 2015, along with Dr. Leonid & Dr. Victor Vilensky, we checked all the audio visual arrangements & set up the computers, as well as, assembled frames on bone models for the first workshop on the following day.
This was the first small group workshop which we organized in St. Petersburg, the city where the Ortho-suv frame was developed, the city of Dr. Leonid Solomin & Dr. Victor Vilenski. This workshop over two & a half days from 2nd to 4th May, 2015, was organized as a residential course at Hotel Park Inn Nevsky, St. Petersburg.
The proceedings on day one were initiated by R S Khurana who thanked all the delegates for coming all the way for the training workshop & also introduced Prof. Leonid Solomin & Dr. Victor Vilenski, to the delegates.
Dr. Leonid & Dr. Victor then guided the delegates explaining the salient features of Ortho-suv Frame, the delegates were guided through Hardware workshop, as well as, three workshops on bone models, followed by two software workshops on actual X ray cases.
The session concluded with a session on Tips & Tricks to be followed while using Ortho-suv Frame. The complete training session on all the three days was an interactive one durong which the attending delegates freely raised queries which were replied to by Prof. Leonid & Dr. Victor. The delegates appreciated the wonderful features of the Ortho-suv hardware, as well as, the software & promised immediate support.
However, all of them being TSF users wanted us to offer struts with Clickers as they all felt that it would be to cumbersome for their patients to turn the struts from one line to the other. Dr. Leonid committed that we would do so at the earliest.
Future Prospects:
The use of Ortho-suv will commence immediately in Saudi Arabia. The distributor has purchased 10 sets from us. Iran distributor also purchased one set & is planning a workshop in Iran in the month of September where he will invite both RSK & VVM. Dr. Mohammed Kamal from has promised immediate support . He has invited me to visit Dubai when he starts his practice over there in July, 2015. The surgeon from Armenia has also plans to purchase two sets which will be purchased by his hospital in the coming week.
# SHPOPL conducts such course in memory of Late Shri H.D. Pitkar, who founded SHPOPL & was known and respected for his contribution to Orthopedic implant manufacturing in India in as early as 1960.