I thank the Mauritius Research Council for organising this event with the participation of Prof Thatte, eminent scientist and researcher from India. She is a well known figure in the medical world in India and serves in various capacities, with great experience in research. Medical and biomedical research brings significant benefits to any national health programme. Given its cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary nature, health system research must more fundamentally try to ultimately solve practical and relevant problems in health care delivery and to improve the health status of the individual as well as that of the population. This talk on medical research is therefore very relevant to the current Mauritian context as we have to deal with a number of non-communicable diseases including diabetes, cardio vascular problems, cancer, tobacco and alcohol related diseases and mental illness. We are pleased that Dr Thatte is here to give us more guidance and advice on medical research and how to encourage our young people to engage in such research. I wish them all the best for their future research.
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