Doctors trained in undersea medicine

(ANSA) - Pisa, February 15 - 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.