The city based Dr K M Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital will host the 20th World Congress on cardio-thoracic surgery to be held here in October next year.

The World Congress conducted by the World Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons (WSCTS) is a time-honored and highly prestigious international scientific event.

This annual conference witnesses the august presence and didactic participation of the best minds in the exacting science of cardiothoracic surgery. It provides a worldwide forum for presentations and discussions on the latest findings and techniques in this delicate branch of surgery, a press release from the Hospital said.

Every year, the WSCTS Executive Committee proposes and puts to vote the country which would play host to the subsequent World Congress.

This year Dr Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital will be doing the honours and Dr Cherian has been elected as Congress President, it said.

The sixth Global forum on Humanitarian Medicine in cardiology and cardiac surgery will be hosted along with the World Congress.

”This is indeed a proud moment for us as our country has been designated as the venue for the World Congress of the World Society of cardiothoracic surgeons for the year 2010. India will be playing host to the luminaries of cardiothoracic surgery from all over the world along with students, clinicians and scientists active in this field,” Dr Cherian said.

The Congress would serve to highlight India’s contributions to this field and provide an ideal and rare opportunity for enthusiastic students and young surgeons to meet and interact with pioneers and noted surgeons about whom they would have only heard or read about.