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Dr. Dave Maharajh<\/p>\n
Maharajh has practised as a urologist in the province since 2004. He worked as the vice-president of medical services for the Assiniboine and Parkland regional health authorities and as a medical director at Mount Carmel Clinic in Winnipeg and the Wheat City Medical Clinic.<\/p>\n
He stopped working at the Selkirk Regional Health Centre in June in preparation for his latest career venture.<\/p>\n
Maharajh will be the first doctor in Canada to use innovative robotic technology and artificial intelligence diagnostics for the transperineal prostate biopsy, which takes tissue samples from the perineal area.<\/p>\n
The cancer detection procedure is a new way of getting to the prostate and avoids having to place a thin needle through the rectum using the transrectal ultrasound prostate biopsy method, he said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Maharajh said the procedure has an infection rate of less than 0.1 per cent and is safer in terms of eliminating a risk of infection compared to the transrectal ultrasound method, which has an infection rate ranging between five and seven per cent across North America.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing still wrong with doing the transrectal ultrasound, the old route, but it comes with the implications of the worry about infection \u2026 as well as being replaced by the transperineal route, which is safer and maybe becomes a new standard of care down the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Cancer Society estimates about one in nine men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime and one and 34 will die from it.<\/p>\n
Doctors in provinces like British Columbia and Ontario, as well as a urologist in Winnipeg, have been doing the transperineal prostate biopsy, but without robotic equipment, Maharajh said.<\/p>\n
His equipment is being delivered from a manufacturer in Singapore and was approved by Health Canada in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a daunting task, I won\u2019t lie about that, but you know, it\u2019s something that I feel that needs to get done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am in the driving seat available to do that in Canada, and you know, it\u2019s a long process, but I think something that eventually will change across the board in Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the procedure, he will use the iSR\u2019obot Mona Lisa, which is designed to perform complex surgeries with minimal incisions to reduce patient recovery time, according to the medical technology distributor\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
The biopsies can be performed under local or light sedation, said the website for Precision Pro BioTech, for which Maharajh is the CEO and chief medical officer.<\/p>\n
Maharajh said he hopes to train other urologists and radiologists who are interested in learning how to do the robotic procedure to screen and diagnose prostate cancer.<\/p>\n
Carberry Mayor Ray Muirhead said the urologist was instrumental in helping to get the emergency department reopened at the Carberry Health Centre in 2024 and he is happy to have him return to work in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery small community out there wants their health care good, and if you can get an added specialty practice, I mean that\u2019s nothing but good news for us,\u201d Muirhead said.<\/p>\n
Maharajh first contacted the mayor last year after hearing his desperate plea about a lack of staff in the emergency department and asked how he could help. He contacted the mayor again this year to discuss the idea of starting a new practice, which was welcomed with open arms.<\/p>\n
Muirhead said lots of Westman communities are scrambling to secure doctors, nurses and emergency medical services. He hopes Carberry can be an example of a community that works hard to attract health-care professionals to the area by providing accommodations.<\/p>\n
He expects the specialized clinic will bring more people to the area to access the \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d health-care service.<\/p>\n
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