A Super-Speciality Healthcare Landmark At Shibpur, Howrah.
If you ask a family in Howra h how they handle managing their elderly family members’, it is likely you will hear that they have a folder (usually plastic) either…
A 52-year-old man from Shibpur has had a mouth ulcer for two months. It will not heal..When the biopsy report comes out, it is cancer. In a week three doctors…
Here's a scene you can probably picture without any help. A man in his fifties sits outside a consulting room in Howrah with a folder of reports he doesn't fully…
A paramedic is leaning over a patient in a moving ambulance. The patient coughs. Not a polite little cough—the kind that comes in waves, forceful, unstoppable. Within seconds, aerosolised particles…
Nobody asks about biomedical waste when they bring a relative in for a fever or schedule a minor surgery. Fair enough — it's not dinner-table conversation. But every used syringe,…
There's this patient. Mr. Das. Not his real name, obviously. He came to us maybe eight years ago now. Late fifties. On dialysis for a little over a year. And…
If a baby is born at 32 weeks, the weight can be approximately 1.6 kilograms. It is about the average weight of a large cooking oil bottle. When parents see…
Most people with shoulder pain don't come in right away. They wait. A dull ache after carrying groceries gets called "slept on it wrong." Trouble reaching the top shelf gets…
A patient's daughter once stopped me outside the ward, holding her father's lunch tray like it was proof of neglect. "Why is there no salt in this dal?" He's already…
Last October, a mother brought her fourteen-month-old to our OPD on day four of what she called "just a cold." The child wasn't crying. He wasn't feverish either — 99.2°F,…