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Training for Neuronavigation in JDWNR Hospital

admin JDWNR Hospital Thimphu, News & Events 19. January 202019. January 2020

The young doctor Dr. Svenja Maschke is specialised in the use of neuronavigation devices. At the moment she is training assistant doctors and technical personnel at the JDWNR Hospital Thimphu in the use of such a device.

During the highly intensive three-week training in Bhutan, the required software skills are to be trained and enhanced in order to be used in the operating theatre. Another major objective is to pass on the knowledge to further interested assistant doctors and technical personnel.

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Neuronavigation system at JDWNRH helps in providing safe brain surgeries

admin JDWNR Hospital Thimphu 8. September 201927. September 2019

On 19 April 2019 Bhutan Broadcasting Service reported about the successful work of the neurosurgeon Dr. Tashi Tenzin with the neuro-navigation system donated by Austria in an article titled Neuronavigation system at the JDWNRH helps in providing safe brain surgeries.

Support for the JDWNR Hospital in Thimphu

admin JDWNR Hospital Thimphu 8. September 201921. October 2019

25 October 2018. Training on a neuronavigation system in JDWNR Hospital Thimphu

With the support of the Association a much needed training on a new neuro-navigation device of the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu was facilitated by the Friendship Association.

Dr. Stefan Wolfsberger of the Medical University of Vienna, who had already trained Dr. Tashi Tenzin from the JDWNR Hospital in Thimphu in the use of this system in Vienna, assisted in the operation of Read more ...