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Ashveer Gungabeessoon is currently the Business Development Lead in a private medical distributor company in Port Louis, Mauritius. Ashveer is a registered Nurse in Mauritius since 2005 having completed his 3 years of training in Nursing. He worked in 1 of the public hospitals from 2002 to 2014 where he practiced nursing in various departments; namely, Accident & Emergency Dept, Surgical/ Medical/ Orthopedic wards taking care of the patients. He joined the Operating Room team where he practiced both as an anesthetic and scrub nurse in multiple specialities like general surgery, GYN & Obs, hepatobiliary, orthopedic, spine, neurosurgery, paediatric, ENT, dental & maxillofacial and renal transplant.Ashveer Gungabeessoon still holds his full license to practice as a General Nurse in Mauritius and is also a member of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Association partnering with local surgeons to elevate the standard of care and enhance the surgical outcome for patients.

Ashveer joined the private sector as Marketing Executive for a medical distributor company in 2014 working with multiple multinational medical equipment, devices and consumables companies. In 2018, he took employment in a private medical firm as Product Specialist for Laparoscopy while also catering for other fields of medical supplies, always working in close contact with multiple international medical suppliers. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he was invited by one of his multinational partners to provide virtual training to his peers in Africa for the multiple ranges of products within the portfolio. He was recently Head of Medical Division for the next 5 months before his current position.

His main professional and scientific interests focus on general abdominal surgery, minimally invasive abdominal surgery, quality of care, risk mitigation, OR practices and team development, enhanced patient outcome and health economics.