A state-of-the-art dual head gamma camera has been installed at Command Hospital, Pune by Maj Gen DP Asthana, Deputy Director, Medical Services, Southern Command in the presence of Maj Gen GC Boruah, Commandant of the hospital.

Lt Col PG Kumar who is in charge of the Nuclear Medicine Centre of the hospital said that the centre has been receiving more than 150 cases a month which requires sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic services. Till recently, such cases were referred to private hospitals in Mumbai or Delhi. The newly acquired camera would now facilitate treatment. No other hospital in the country is equipped with such camera, other than military hospitals in Pune, Bangalore, Calcutta and INS Aswini in Mumbai.

As the camera has two heads, the patient needs only half of the time to be on the camera as compared to the conventional ones. Four doctors and an equal number of technicians were imparted training in the US to enable them handle this sophisticated facility.