Renowned Indian doctors to visit Ulaanbaatar for sharing practices

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2017-03-31 15:22:16

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A delegation from Fortis Healthcare, a network of super-specialty hospitals in India, comprising of Medical and Administrative teams is visiting Ulaanbaatar for exploring the opportunities to be a part of the growing healthcare industry of the country. Their visit is expected to take place on April 5-7.

The delegation plans to conduct a CME (Continuing Medical Education) for doctors and staff at First Central Hospital and Intermed Hospital of Ulaanbaatar and shall offer Free of Cost OPD as well to assist their Mongolian counterparts in assessing and treating patients with liver diseases, blood disorders and cancer ailments.

The delegation comprises of Dr. Vivek Vij, Director of Liver Transplant and GI surgery Department, and Dr. Rahul Bhargava, Director – Clinical Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Department.


Dr. Vivek Vij is a known to name to more than 50 liver transplant Mongolian patients. He is a renowned Indian surgeon, known for his expertise in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary Sciences. He and his team have a cumulative experience of more than 2500 liver transplants with a record of 95% patients and 100% donor success rate. Dr. Vij is the first surgeon from Indian subcontinent to publish a series of laparoscopic donor Hepatectomy in ‘Liver Transplantation’. In 2015, he was honored with a special award at International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS), in Chicago. He is the youngest liver transplant surgeon to complete 500 independent liver transplants with Lowest Biliary Complication Rate. He also runs a Fellowship program for training young surgeons and paramedical staff at Fortis.

Dr. Vij has more than 50 national and international publications and presentations on ‘Liver surgery and transplantation’ to his credit, along with noteworthy contributions for scope of improvement in this field. His work has been published in top indexed journal for transplantation (American Journal of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation). His area of research primarily involves living donor transplants and medical management of patients with liver diseases.

Dr. Rahul Bhargava is known for excellent patient outcomes and this has earned him the reputation of being among the best of his generation in this field of specialisation. The Haematology department has its own transplantation unit and extensive laboratory facilities, providing cutting-edge clinical skills and the latest in technology at affordable costs for transplantation and other Haematological services. Till date, Dr. Bhargava has performed close to 200 adult bone marrow transplants, a record-breaking number in north India.

About Fortis

Fortis Hospital Group is the largest healthcare provider in Asia, having multi-specialty hospitals as well as super-specialty centers across India, providing comprehensive tertiary and quaternary healthcare to patients across various specialties with latest technology, multi-disciplinary capability, state of the art facilities, world class infrastructure and excellent patient care ambience and processes, Fortis Group has expanded to become a network of 10,000 bed capacity across 54 Hospitals, over 260 diagnostic centers and a talent pool of over 23000 people. We touch, enrich and transform the lives of over 3100 patients everyday with the expertise of 10,000 finest medical minds in the country.

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