Italy plays a leading role in
the training of doctors specialised in undersea medicine and
hyperbaric oxygen therapy thanks to a master's degree offered by
the Sant'Anna school of advanced studies in Pisa, the course
director said Monday.
"With this master we are training a new category of doctors
committed to the health of people who are exposed to a high
level of risk because of their work or sport, or for whose
pathologies hyperbaric therapy represents a last chance for
treatment," Vincenzo Lionetti said.
Former students are overseeing the health of divers engaged
in an environmental clean-up operation in the waters of the
small Tuscan island of Giglio, after the Costa Concordia cruise
liner partly capsised after hitting rocks in January 2012,
killing 32.
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