Fetal Echocardiography Workshops in India

A small group of staff recently visited India to carry out fetal echocardiography workshops at AIIMS Hospital Delhi and Sonam Norboo Memorial (SNM) Hospital Leh.

With assistance from the UCL Global Challenge fund, Sara Hillman, Clinical Training Fellow / NIHR Lecturer at EGA Institute for Women’s Health, organised for Mr Pranav Pandya (FMU Lead, UCLH), Dr Robert Yates, Dr Michelle Carr and Ms Joanne Wolfenden (GOS Paediatric Cardiology Department,UCLH) to visit, lecture and demonstrate prenatal fetal echocardiography skills in two hospitals in India. Doctors in Leh had asked specifically for a clinical workshop in this area, having identified that congenital cardiac disease is more prevalent at high altitude and better antenatal detection would improve care for pregnant women and their babies. We have a long standing relationship with both hospitals, having worked with them in a research capacity for the last 6 years, however, these successful September clinical workshops were the first of what we hope, will become a regular feature.