pune the golden jubilee research conference of the armed forces medical services held in pune recently approved nearly 120 research projects with a proposed budget touching nearly rs 5 crore this year the projects were largely distributed amongst the specialities of internal medicine and allied subjects surgery and allied subjects including dental surgery pathology and related paraclinical specialities preventive and community health and specific to terrain and climate research projects said a statement issued by the afms the conference featured a complete session on perspective challenges in the armed forces medical services wherein experts spoke about the challenges and road ahead for the afms to deal with far forward combat care needs of the organisation human resource management automation in healthcare and the definitive focus developing on patient safety in the afms hospitals the afmrc conference officially closed with the valedictory address by the director general of afms lt gen h l kakria he said that the objectives of the conference had been fully realised and that the proposals approved would in the long run provide the healthcare system of the afms sound evidence based medical knowledge highlighting the achievements of the past year he spoke on the sanction accorded to the afms hospitals for introduction of the highly sophisticated equipments like the 256 slice ct scan machine the 3 tesla mri machines pet scanner and a host of other medical equipment for various levels of hospitals which would suitably enhance the capacity of care delivery across the service hospitals