21st August, Thursday
We
went to SSKM today, which was a government hospital in Kolkata. SSKM turned out
to be much different from Osmania General Hospital (Hyderabad) in terms of
patient volume and quality of education and ranked very high as a tertiary care
government hospital. It had 300 beds just for cardiology, was well equipped and
had the highest number of pacemaker implantations in the country.
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| Outside of SSKM Hospital Cardiology deparment |
Dr. Shoumik,
a 3rd year resident explained to us about how hard it was to get
into SSKM to post doc in cardiology and that it was regarded highly for its
education programs. It was also very interesting to learn about ‘Fair Price
Shops’ where all medical devices could be availed at a whopping 67% subsidy
from the government of West Bengal.
Later that day, Erin, Jay and Adam observed
the implantation procedure for a dual-chamber pacemaker at Medica Hospital that Dr.
Banerjee had kindly invited the team to observe. The facilities there were
state-of-the art (seemed comparable to those at Hopkins) and the procedure was
very efficiently done with all the best practices. An interesting thing to note
was that this procedure was done under local anesthesia with no sedation
whatsoever!
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| Jay and Adam in their purple scrubs before the procedure. |
Our day ended with a reunion party, where everybody from CBID in
Kolkata got together for dinner and drinks. This included the Brady Brunch, the mHealth team (Brian, March, Sriram, and Trent), Anant, two our TAs; Kevin and Michael, Dr. Acharya, Aditya, Dr. Saha, Adam, and Idara (the 4th member of the Medtronic team who had arrived earlier in the day). It was our last day with everyone together in India as Michael and Kevin left that
evening for a tour in Northern India (Darjeeling and other places) and Anant was heading back to Baltimore early the next morning. We all enjoyed out time talking about our projects and experiences in India thus far.
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