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Read moreAMRI Hospital-Dhakuria, the flagship unit of AMRI Hospitals Ltd, Eastern India's largest healthcare network, started as a dream of some of Kolkata leading physicians. The doctors, who set up the hospital after earning a name for themselves in the public healthcare delivery system, decided to join hands to provide quality healthcare services at affordable rates.
The likes of Dr Mani Kumar Chhetri, Dr Satyabrata Basu, Dr Anupam Dasgupta, Dr R.K. Dutta Ray, and Dr A.K. Mitra Mustafi were the pioneers who laid the foundation stone for one of India's first public-private ventures in healthcare. On July 1, 1996, Advanced Medical Research Institute came into being as a joint venture with the Government of West Bengal. The hospital initially started with OPD services and by 1997 it had turned into a 150-bed hospital.
AMRI Hospital-Dhakuria stated its annexe building in 2005 with another 200 beds and added around 75 beds by 2014. The hospital boasts of state-of the-art Emergency and Critical Care services, which have been lauded as a Centre of Excellence owing to its advanced care and treatment. The Critical Care and Emergency departments are served by a high-end team of doctors and nursing staff, providing round-the-clock services, backed by specialised equipment, like ECMO, SLED and CRRT.
The hospital also offers Trauma Care and Survival of Trauma, bringing together the combination of the three crucial disciplines of neurology, orthopaedics and maxillofacial surgery, providing holistic treatment in Emergency. The hospital also has excellent set up for 'Golden Hour' support in Cardiac Sciences, along with facilities for advanced treatment procedures in angioplasty, CABG, valve replacement, etc. The cardiac Emergency department at AMRI Hospital-Dhakuria provides support across the board, from paediatric to geriatric.
Besides excellent and well-equipped Neurosciences department, the hospital at Dhakuria, a landmark in itself, provides top-of-the-line treatment and surgical facilities, across disciplines like Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology and Urology, General Medicine, General and Laparoscopic surgery. The hospital also has a well-equipped Oncology department, providing holistic care and treatment – surgical, medical, radiation, haematological and palliative care -- for all kinds of Cancer.
In keeping with the spirit of the AMRI Hospitals Group, which invests in technology-driven healthcare processes to make treatment protocols more precise, the hospital at Dhakuria has a state-of-the-art radiotherapy facility, with latest technologies being used. The hospital offers advanced nuclear imaging investigative options like Positron Emission Tomography or PET-CT, which reveals information about both the structure and function of cells and tissues in the body during a single imaging session. Other advanced features of the department are Single-photon Emission Computed Tomography or SPECT CT, treatment through Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and Volumetric Modulated Arc radiotherapy or VMAT, a new type of IMRT technique.
In December 2018, AMRI Hospitals set yet another benchmark by introducing an indigenous artificial valve for cardiac valve implantation, for the first time in Eastern India. Manufactured completely in India, the valve is not just cost effective but also meets global standards. The cardiac implant surgery was conducted on 73-year old Subhash Chandra Dutta, a resident of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
In a ground-breaking surgery, a team of surgeons in a Kolkata hospital successfully removed a tumour on the liver from a 61-year-old man, which weighed around 2 Kilos and was around 15 cm by 15 cm in size.
Dilip Kumar Halder, a resident of Nadia , is currently doing well and was discharged from on AMRI Hospitals , Dhakuria on Wednesday.
The massive malign...
KOLKATA: Fifty-year-old software engineer Manajit Kar had sustained severe hand injury on July 17 while using an electric saw. When the Jadavpur resident reached AMRI Hospital, Dhakuria, last Sunday he had lost a significant amount of blood. He was in shock, his blood pressure had dropped drastically, and his sensorium was compromised. Sight of the injury on his left arm shocked even the most s...
A state-of-the-art knee replacement implant built from oxynium, which is much more resilient, was done for the first time in Kolkata. Oxynium is a derivative of titanium, with a special coating that is black in colour, giving the implant its name. Unlike knee implants made of cobalt chrome, which last around 15 years and need to be replaced, oxynium knee replacements can survive without any has...
Mesh & Glue is the latest technology where sutures are not needed for surgeries and there is hardly any scar. The technology as used for the first time in Eastern India on a patient of TKR, where instead of stitching or stapling, the Mesh & Glue tape was used like a Band-Aid. The mesh was put on the knee that has undergone surgery, and glue was applied on the layer, using a glue pen tha...
Kolkata, 02.11.2022: In a rare occurrence, a 61-year-old patient suffered an acute subdural haematoma or bleeding in the brain two days after being detected with dengue. Doctors believe that while they have read about cases of dengue-induced cerebral haemorrhage in medical textbooks, none of them have ever come across such a case in recent times.
Tapan Biswas, a resident of Shahidnaga...
A 53 year old gentleman who was suffering from acute chest pain for about four hours came to AMRI Dhakuria’s Emergency in the midnight.
The ECG showed a massive heart attack. The patient was immediately admitted for a Primary Angioplasty, when an Angiogram revealed a huge blood clot in the arteries of the heart.
The clot was very efficiently removed with the help of Penumbra...
We're pleased to share a positive patient testimonial from #AMRIHospitals #Kolkata. Mrs. Meenakshi Sur from Konnagar had been experiencing post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse, which can be a painful and uncomfortable condition caused by weakened support structures in the vagina and uterus. Under the expert supervision of Dr. Bastab Ghosh, MS (Surgery), MCh (Urology) – JIPMER, Mrs. S...
I visited doctor Bastab Ghosh for my father, who had an enlarged prostate and had already gone through surgery in 2009 under a different doctor. His prostate was in a condition that could not be controlled only with medicine and needed another surgery and at that time his age was 67+ yrs. Dr. Bastab Ghosh was very clear about my father's health condition and all the aspects consequences of...
I am sharing my experience regarding the treatment offered by Dr. Bastab Ghosh for my father. My father PSA level was found to be marginally higher than usual (without any physical discomfort) during a routine check up. Dr. Ghosh recommended Multiparametric Prostate MRI, followed by TRUS guided biopsy. Biopsy report suggested carcinoma in prostate gland and substantiated by GSMA PET CT Scan. Based...
Dr. Bastab Ghosh is a wonderful doctor and the best uro-oncologist in Kolkata. He came as a blessing in disguise for us. My father who is 64 years of age was diagnosed with prostate cancer on November 2022. Dr.Ghosh recommended a Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy which was done on 9th November 2022. It was a 5hours major surgery and by God's grace every thing went well. Before the surgery...
I was admitted to Brampton Civic Hospital at Toronto on 29.07.2022 due to gross Hematuria and discharged on 02.08.2022 with Foley Catheter and incomplete treatment. I had to prepone my journey since further Cystocopy suggested in the report was time consuming. From a reliable source, I could know Dr. Bastab Ghosh of AMRI Hospital, Dhakuria and talk to him over phone before starting from Toronto. H...
Paul from Ghana came to AMRI Mukundapur for a kidney transplant. He was on haemo-dialysis for a long time. Since the patient already suffered from cardiac problems, before the surgery, he went through a detailed diagnosis by a team of cardiac & anesthetic specialists. Paul was discharged after successful surgery and he has been showing steady recovery in his first and second consultations. Bef...
Pratima Sinha started experiencing nausea and vomiting for 20 days. Her family took her for many consultations but there was no satisfactory result. In an emergency condition, she was admitted to AMRI. Under the supervision of specialists and the compassionate care of the nursing staff, Pratima Sinha soon started feeling better. A rare case of brain tumor was located and operated on by Dr. Nirup D...
Mrs. Nirmala Tamang went through a kidney transplant and experienced severe bleeding from the kidney surface post-surgery, followed by a cardiac arrest. Mrs. Tamanag was resuscitated and put in the ICU on ventilation. However, a similar situation took place again and her kidney started shutting down. Under Dr. Argha Majumdar's care, her condition improved and she was finally able to get well a...