An Operation Theatre Technician is a person who is involved with the management of an operation theatre. His / Her work includes managing and organizing all the activities in and around the operation theatre, which are : managing the patients in and out of operation theatre, looking after all the surgical instruments their sterilization, arrangement of operation theatre table, dressing table, anesthesia table. Looking after the drugs required for surgery, anesthetic gases, drapes and all the linen and their sterilization. He/She also assists the surgeon during the operations. Sterilization and cleaning of operation theatre and management of other staff is also done by him. In short, an operation theatre technician has to manage and organize whole of the operation theatre with out whom no surgeon can operate on the patients and neither can a hospital be run or be complete.

Trained operation theatre technicians are in shortage throughout the country. To over come this deficiency "Mother Teresa Education & Welfare Society, (Regd.)" executive body which runs the Mother Teresa Paramedical College & Hospital, Delhi Road, Opp. Vikas Bhawan, Saharanpur (U.P.) decided to start a two year Diploma Course with three months internship programme in operation theatre techniques. The course is recognized by U.P. State Government and Affiliated to the U.P. State Medical Faculty, Lucknow. At the end of the course Diploma Certificate will be awarded by the U.P. State medical Faculty, Lucknow. The Diploma holder of "Diploma in Operation Theatre Technician" are registered as, O.T. Technician by U.P. State Medical Faculty Lucknow. The Diploma holders are eligible as "O.T. Technician" can work at Govt. Hospital, Semi. Govt, and Private Hospital & Can work as private practitioner also.
FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION